Word: fundamentalistism
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Afghanistan is not a photogenic country. Four years of famine, 22 years of war and a repressive, uneducated, fundamentalist regime has not improved its face to the world. It has no oil, and its strategic value was mostly lost after the end of the Cold War. Oil companies would still love to build a pipeline through Afghanistan, but other than a corridor between the Middle East and Russia or China, it has little international value. The Taliban’s actions, such as destroying ancient Buddhist statues, have not endeared them to the Islamic world any more than...
...enemy of my enemy is my friend. But it's not impossible to envision a different scenario - a feeling in a few months time that our relationship with Israel is what got us into this mess in the first place. That assumption is, of course, ludicrous. The fundamentalist terror groups hate the West and modernism and would despise us even if there had never been an Israel. As Tom Friedman has noted, they don't hate our policies. They hate us. But it would be presumptuous to believe that American support of Israel can't waver down the road, especially...
SENTENCED. TOM GREEN, 53, brash Mormon Fundamentalist with five wives and 30 children; to five years in prison and repayment of $78,000 in state welfare checks; in Provo, Utah...
...more politically moderate Christians have also joined the movement. Susie Capraro, who home schools her son and daughter, used to be part of the Broward County Parent Support Group, the largest home-schooling network in Florida and one founded on Judeo-Christian principles. Although she considers herself a Fundamentalist Christian, Capraro didn't like group rules that keep non-Christians from leadership roles--or other exclusionary gestures, like the ice skating event that featured only Christian music. "We wanted a place where people could get the support they needed without the religion," says Capraro, who along with 10 families...
...drama at all, while in "Valley Girl," the punk and the popular girl might as well have been Hatfield and McCoy. In "Sugar and Spice," a tight-knit band of cheerleaders consists of a perky prom queen type, a trash-talking convict's daughter, a goodie-two-shoes fundamentalist Christian, and a nerd who gets into Harvard. If they were characters in a movie made ten years ago, they wouldn't be able to remain two minutes in the same locker room without bloodshed...