Word: fundamentalistism
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Eugene B. Borowitz told the crowd of approximately 60 people that there has been a "resurgence of religion, especially fundamentalist and evangelical movements," in the past 20 years...
Such sermons have galvanized the discontented in a country mired in political and economic chaos. Earlier this year, members of the fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front issued a manifesto of civil disobedience and occupied sections of Algiers to protest electoral laws that they claimed were devised to deny them victory in parliamentary elections originally scheduled for June. After some 100 people died in street fighting between the army and demonstrators, balloting was postponed and President Chadli Bendjedid declared a state of siege to restore calm...
While the contours of the deal seemed clear, the mechanics posed nettlesome questions. Among the most vexing was a condition contained in the letter former British hostage John McCarthy brought to Perez de Cuellar from Islamic Jihad, a fundamentalist Shi'ite faction, operating under the banner of the pro-Iranian Hizballah, that holds several Westerners. It called for "the release of our freedom fighters from prisons in occupied Palestine and Europe." To whom that referred was anybody's guess -- and for whom Islamic Jihad presumed to speak was no more apparent. Was this a bargaining point or an implacable demand...
That leaves the bargaining power of Islamic Jihad weakened at a time when the organization is finding itself increasingly politically isolated. McCarthy's and Tracy's release may have been a desperate attempt to remind an inattentive international audience of the fundamentalists' agenda. But as the Leyraud abduction demonstrated, that agenda is fragmented and riddled by competing demands. Islamic Jihad may also have acted in hopes of preventing a Syrian disarming of fundamentalist camps in Lebanon and of gaining new respect from disaffected Shi'ites. Says Richard Murphy, former U.S. Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs...
SECULAR SOUNDS. Fearing a Fundamentalist backlash, Columbia changed the title of Nick Lowe's 1978 Jesus of Cool album to Pure Pop for Now People...