Word: fundamentalistism
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...comparison between Hamas and Likud is inaccurate on a number of levels. The first regards religiosity. While Likud was seen as an ultra-nationalist party in 1977, Hamas combines ultra-nationalism with fundamentalist Islamism. It does not merely pursue an international policy that is uncompromising, and territorially maximalist, but also formally seeks the implementation of sharia as the law of the land—with all of the complications that such a program would pose for Muslim women and for the myriad Arab-Christian groups living under its authority...
...still loudly and proudly calls for the destruction of the state of Israel and encourages the legions of suicide bombers of Islamic Jihad and other militant groups to continue to murder innocent Jews. A potentially appropriate parallel for Hamas in Israel would be the Kach party, which was religiously fundamentalist and territorially maximalist, calling for the removal of all Arabs from Israel and the territories and the annexation of all territories captured in war. The party won one seat in the 1984 Knesset, but was banned in subsequent elections for being anti-democratic and racist...
...world on alert. The Guardian Council that runs Iran does not represent the interests or desires of the Iranian people, and its ever-escalating rhetoric presents an unacceptable threat to global stability. Recently “elected” President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a self-proclaimed religious fundamentalist who publicly denies the Holocaust and has publicly called for Israel to be “wiped off the map.” The regime’s bravado has only increased with its belief that it can hold the world hostage through its influence over the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting...
...Mahdi succeeds Jafaari, don't expect any real change. He has switched directions so many times in his career, it's hard to know which way he's going. He has been a Communist, a Ba'athist and a liberal-secular democrat; these days, he represents the Shi'ite-fundamentalist Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, which, like Jafaari's Dawa Party, is beholden to Tehran. Halfway through last year, Mahdi told TIME he was about to bolt from SCIRI and form his own party. He changed his mind-likely because he knows he has no grassroots support...
Today, however, polarizing is not always bad. The Passion of the Christ was $370 million domestic gross' worth of polarizing. And religion--specific, fraught, inflaming religion--can make for involving stories. In March HBO debuts Big Love, about fundamentalist polygamists in Utah. Devout Christian characters have shown up in ensembles from TNT's Wanted to CBS's Threshold. On FX's Rescue Me, Denis Leary's self-destructive firefighter has recurrent talks with--Zeitgeist alert!--Jesus. "I don't know who his agent is," says Rescue Me co-creator Peter Tolan, "but he's cleaning up this year...