Word: fundamentalistism
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...accusations against Saudi Arabia's fundamentalist Muslims are curious. Don't Osama bin Laden and the fundamentalists claim that the U.S. war on terrorism is really a war against Islam? If the U.S. continues on its present path, even more people will agree with the theory that the target is Islam, not terrorists. If we ask Saudi Arabia to change its religious beliefs, maybe we should ask a few fundamentalist groups in the U.S. to alter theirs too. After all, some of their leaders constantly attack Islam (and Catholicism). Their hateful preaching might make a few Wahhabis blush...
...accusations against Saudi Arabia's fundamentalist Muslims are curious [Sept. 15]. Don't Osama bin Laden and the fundamentalists claim that the U.S. war on terrorism is really a war against Islam? If the U.S. continues on its present path, even more people will agree with that theory. If we ask Saudi Arabia to change its religious beliefs, maybe we should ask a few fundamentalist groups in the U.S. to alter theirs too. After all, some of their leaders constantly attack Islam (and Catholicism). Their hateful preaching might make a few Wahhabis blush. Let us first stop the hate...
...Iran's censors also seized the original negative of another entry, Babak Payami's Silence Between Two Thoughts; Payami reassembled the film from his computer files and showed it on video. The story is set in a country similar to Afghanistan under the Taliban, where fundamentalist clerics move into villages and set up a new Draconian order. The film's protagonist is one of their henchmen, who has been told to kill a young woman in custody for an unnamed crime. The woman is confined to a hutlike cage, where she breathes heavily; she is a wolf with...
...captive in Silence, even the bearded militant, are all such photogenic folks. And the girl who plays the militant's stepsister is an especially lovely child of perhaps 14. When she says fretfully that a sandstorm heading for their village could mean the end of the world, the young fundamentalist allows a smile to crease his stern face. "As long as there are beautiful girls like you," he says, "the end of the world will never come...
Diplomats in East Africa say Saudis' influence in the region is minimal but growing, especially in Tanzania, where fundamentalists have taken over 30 of the 487 mosques in the capital and have begun bombing bars and beating women who go out without being fully covered. According to a Western intelligence report, the Saudis are spending about $1 million a year in Tanzania to build new mosques and buy influence with the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi Party. "We get our funds from Yemen and Saudi Arabia," says Mohammed Madi, a fundamentalist activist. "Officially the money is used to buy medicine...