Word: fundamentalistism
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...stern, moralistic, teetotaling. The status of shahid, or holy martyr, would solve his earthly issues in paradise, and someone would give money to his family on earth. If he hailed from the rebel training camps of Afghanistan, where the cult of jihad gets its earthly gunmen, he would be fundamentalist in his faith, ignorant of the outside world, immersed in a life of religious devotion and guerrilla instruction. He would speak not in casual conversation but in scripture. An intense, carefully nurtured fanaticism would replace any natural instinct for self-preservation...
...Rights Alert reports that a book signed two years ago at The Free Press on Islamic fundamentalist leader Osama bin Laden is being moved up from next spring to November, with author Peter Bergen working on last-minute changes to bring his manuscript up to date. The book, "Holy War: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden" will be ready to crash to stores six weeks from now. Bergen is an analyst of terrorism for CNN, and one of the few Westerners ever to interview bin Laden, which he did in 1997. He has been studying...
Bush also condemned Afghanistan’s Taliban government for harboring bin Laden, calling on the fundamentalist Islamic regime to immediately turn over leaders of the al-Qaeda group to U.S. authorities, as well as to close all terrorist training camps operating in the country...
...condemned to use mental categories: the concepts Middle East, Fundamentalist, Arab, appear to mean something, when in fact they mean very little. The categories that we commonly use can be quite misleading. We will need history and geography lessons quickly. The category Middle East which has come into common use in the past century includes all kinds of diverse people, Christians as well as Jews and Muslims, Arabic speakers, Turks, Greeks and Armenians, Circassians, Georgians, Kurds and many others besides who may have very different ideas about all these events. And in terms of states, what do Saudi Arabia, Oman...
...Radical groups in the Arab world have traditionally opposed the U.S. because it has been an ally of the moderate Arab regimes the extremists are trying to overthrow. And, of course, American values and culture are anathema to Islamic fundamentalists. But such anti-American sentiment has grown more popular over the last decade, fueled by anger over Iraq and Israel and the perception that the U.S. is hostile to Arab interests. So, while a radical fundamentalist such as Bin Laden may hate everything that America is, the anti-American feeling on the Arab streets may be based more on Arab...