Word: fundamentalistism
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...held in the prison at Guantá namo Bay [June 20]. Although I do not approve of torture, I think European nations and the U.S. should fight Islamic extremism by any means. Europe is vulnerable because of its laxity in responding to the hate and aggression preached by Islamic fundamentalist clerics. Europeans have a culture that is thousands of years old. I am not a Christian or a believer, but I am convinced that if we are confronted by fanatical people who want to impose their religion on our society, we must fight them. Henri De Knibber Blankenberge, Belgium
...said what he meant and meant what he said," proclaims Richard Girnt Butler, 66, of the Church of Jesus Christ Christian. Butler sounds like just another Fundamentalist country preacher--until he reveals his peculiar interpretation of God's word. He is one of the leaders of the increasingly troublesome Christian Identity movement, which preaches the most corrosive theology in America, blending hatred of blacks and Jews with visions of an imminent apocalypse and advocating--and sometimes practicing--armed violence to achieve its goals...
Though Identity often sounds Fundamentalist, it is anything but. Identity followers believe they are saved by race rather than grace and welcome followers of Nordic pagan cults alongside Bible believers. The movement scorns Fundamentalism's support for Israel and its opposition to British Israelism. Unlike Fundamentalists like Jerry Falwell, who advocate involvement in the U.S. political system, Identity advocates despise the Federal Government, calling it ZOG (the Zionist Occupation Government...
...Even though I'm still in love with that world, I stopped believing in God in my 20s after my doctoral studies on St. Thomas Aquinas. You could say he miraculously cured me of my faith," he says. He takes issue with other leading liberals' use of the word "fundamentalist" to describe Pope Benedict XVI's views. "Fundamentalism is a phenomenon that exists in Protestantism and Islam, among those who take the sacred texts literally," muses Eco. "Catholicism never experienced that because there was always the Church as a mediator to explain the texts." He adds that...
...President Pervez Musharraf responded with a call to oppose "anyone trying to incite hatred." But sectarian violence has worsened under his reign. Musharraf has been reluctant to act against militant groups, largely to avoid alienating the fundamentalist political parties keeping his secular political opposition at bay. "The government does not recognize the threat homegrown terrorists pose to the stability of Pakistan," says Samina Ahmed of the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based NGO. "Isn't it time the government recognized the price of the game being played...