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...arithmetic is simple: when Palestinians lose faith in the peace process, the popularity of Hamas rises. Its fundamentalist hard core is still small, but it attracts sympathizers disillusioned by the failure of everything else. Most Palestinians do not buy Hamas' call to exterminate Israel or make their longed-for state a strict Islamic one. But most now embrace its suicide bombings as the only means they have left to resist an unremitting occupation. The question is whether that newfound popularity is just a flirtation or a permanent change of heart...
Osama Bahar did not wear a beard. He was a devout Muslim--probably more so than his seven siblings, says his father Muhammed--but not a fundamentalist. He played soccer and took karate lessons, and unlike many young Palestinians, he had a job (at $450 a month), as a bank guard. Yet two Saturdays ago, after a Ramadan breaking-of-the-fast dinner with his family in the town of Abu Dis and prayer at the mosque across the street, Osama, 25, found his way to the Ben Yehuda pedestrian mall in downtown Jerusalem and blew himself up. Seconds later...
...Rumors of extortion rackets and political manipulation are rife and any justice meted out is arbitrary. On a recent rainy night in Jakarta, hundreds of adherents to one of the most powerful fundamentalist groups, the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), cram into trucks and minivans and head for a slum on the west side of the city. Men are huddled under a blue tent playing ceki, a kind of poker. They scatter as the squad, brandishing clubs and machetes, marches in. But as FPI members smash tables and chairs and then start pulling down the tents, some locals turn and jeer...
...terror attack was strongly criticized in Pakistan's News International, which warned that such Islamic fundamentalist elements ultimately posed a threat to Pakistan, too. "While there is justified worldwide condemnation of this incident, the Indian leaders would do well to exercise caution in reaching hasty conclusions about the attackers and their motives," noted an editorial, warning against cross-border retaliation. "Islamabad as a member of the international coalition against terrorism will be duty bound to extend assistance if needed. New Delhi would do well to realise that terrorism in the aftermath of the September 11 incident has become a universal...
...RAWA] have evolved as a political humanitarian, peaceful, anti-fundamentalist, feminist organization,” Tameenah said. The group, established in 1977, has the objective of involving an increasing number of Afghan women in social and political activities aimed at acquiring women’s human rights, and contributing to the struggle for the establishment of a government based on secular and democratic values...