Word: fundamentalistism
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...week passed, precious few additional details came to light concerning the Sadat assassination. One theory remained unchanged: that the assassins were members of a small, violent Islamic fundamentalist group, Takfir wa Hijra (Atonement and Holy Flight). An outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood, Takfir wa Hijra was responsible for the abduction and murder of one of Sadat's former Cabinet ministers in 1977; now it is implicated not only in the killing of Sadat but in the rioting later that week in Asyut...
...roots of the fundamentalist resurgence lie in the social dislocation that has swept the Arab world, and Egypt in particular, over the past two decades. Says...
...best or the only way to protect low and moderate income people...Without better data, it is impossible to insist on rent control and condo controls in exactly their current forms." Saying that to a room full of tenant activists was not wise; better for a fundamentalist preacher to tell his flock that the whale didn't really swallow Jonah. Enacting rent control in 1970 was a tremendous struggle; maintaining it since then has been just as hard. And tenants have to look no farther than Somerville--where rents doubled and tripled when rent control was wiped off the books...
...small, violent Muslim fundamentalist sect known as Takfir wa Hijra (Atonement and Holy Flight) may have been involved. This group, a band of urban guerrillas seeking to transform Egypt into a rigid Islamic state, exhorts its members to use "sacred terror" to achieve its objectives and is known to have built cell groups within the armed forces...
...those political preachers, the Rev. Jerry Falwell, founder of the Moral Majority, said he thought Goldwater was angry that the newly fundamentalist conservative movement had left him behind. "I still love him, respect him, pray for him," said Falwell, adding, "In his heart, he knows he's wrong...