Word: fundamentalistism
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...forces. Saddam Hussein's capture has done nothing to quell their deadly ambitions, because they are fired not by loyalty to the old regime but by religious zeal. As his charges scan the night skies for U.S. aircraft, Khaled explains that he receives instructions to attack U.S. forces from fundamentalist imams in local mosques, who "take their orders from the Holy Koran." He says, "We are fighting for Iraq and for Islam...
...democratic nation. After all, the BJP had come to power on the back of a violent and emotive campaign to destroy the Babri mosque at the sacred Hindu site of Ayodhya, so bringing religion into the very heart of politics. Moreover, the BJP was allied to many extreme Hindu-fundamentalist groups. Indeed, it was founded as the political associate of a neofascist paramilitary organization, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh...
...even as they unleash witch hunts to purge their ranks of outstanding homosexual recruits. The gulf between Harvard’s values and the military’s bigotry makes the Solomon Amendment particularly disturbing. The Solomon Amendment uses public funds to force academic institutions into complicity with a fundamentalist moral agenda. It exploits mutually beneficial research partnerships between universities and the government for political reasons, undermining the academic independence fundamental to the pursuit of knowledge...
DIED. ALIJA IZETBEGOVIC, 78, former Bosnian President who led his country through a brutal war and eventually to independence; of complications from a fall; in Sarajevo. Criticized as fundamentalist by some Serbs and Croatians, the devout Muslim was hailed by others for resolutely defending his country against Serbian aggression in a three-year conflict, the bloodiest since World War II, which killed more than...
...foreign students in Hamburg. They're determined not to let the same thing happen again. "The lesson of Sept. 11 is that we didn't look close enough," says Jürgen Roters, president of the Greater Cologne Regional Government, which supervises Bonn schools. "We have evidence that fundamentalist Islamic doctrine is being spread [at King Fahd], that violence is being promoted, and that there are activists associated with the school who have contacts to terrorist groups." But parents claim the terrorism allegations are a mask for the government's real motive: to stop the influx of Muslims, especially Arabs...