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Worldwide fundamentalist trends have led to an upsurge in institutionalized religion, Duke University Professor of Religion Bruce B. Lawrence told an audience of about 60 students last night...
...Islamicization can also be seen in civilian life. Koran schools have begun to open all across Muslim-controlled Bosnia, mosques enjoy bigger attendance than ever, and imams vociferously condemn those who persist in drinking alcohol and eating pork. But does all this mean that Bosnia is turning into a fundamentalist state...
...here, it implicates the U.S. in what has up to now been an Egyptian domestic problem. American leaders do not fully understand this, since the case itself concerned a major criminal conspiracy. The Mubarak regime will probably collapse before too long, either from a military coup or from a fundamentalist revolt. At that point, the U.S. will be seen as allied with the failed regime, which will make relations with Egypt very difficult. Losing Egypt would be dangerous for the U.S. because it is the center of gravity for the Arab world with nearly half of the Arab population...
...race against three other presidential candidates was the chronicle of a victory foretold. But his victory left the North African country of 30 million as uncertain of its future as at any other time since its ill-fated first attempt to hold multiparty voting four years ago. Then, the fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front (F.I.S.) won the first round of legislative elections, which the army aborted. Cheated of victory and outlawed, F.I.S. went underground and splintered into violent armed groups whose struggle to overthrow the military plunged the country into a bloodbath...
...search for a strategy to end the civil war without giving in to the fundamentalists lay at the heart of the presidential campaign. Sheik Mahfoud Nahnah, 53, the avuncular leader of the moderate fundamentalist Hamas party (unconnected to the Palestinian group of the same name) came in second with 25% of the vote. Nahnah's designer suits and silk ties, like his campaign pleas for democracy, failed to reassure secular Algerians. His alleged links to Saudi Arabia and his desire to bring the banned F.I.S. back into the mainstream aroused fears that he planned to make Algeria an Islamic republic...