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Dave Smith’s involvement with Exodus was even more extensive. Raised in Georgia in a small town where he says everyone was a “fundamentalist evangelical,” he said he didn’t really know what it meant to be homosexual. “But my first year at Harvard,” Smith recalls, “I knew that I was gay.” As an active member of Christian Impact, he says he wondered, “Can I be straight...
...should be especially concerned with the current unrest in Pakistan, a Muslim nation with a small but fearsome fundamentalist minority. Thousands of citizens have recently taken to the streets to protest the pending military action in Afghanistan, demanding that Pakistan cease its cooperation with the U.S. It will obviously be very difficult to assure the safety and security of any American or Western personnel deployed in Pakistan, a fact highlighted by a Sept. 25 statement attributed to Osama bin Laden: “We tell our Muslim brothers in Pakistan to use all their means to resist the invasion...
...month will find just how fierce our nation can be, and rightly so. If Afghanistan and bin Laden are behind this attack, we should bring merciless, unceasing ruin to their lives and to their land. At the same time, our allies in the region are often unstable governments battling fundamentalist oppositions in their own countries, just as dangerous as the Taliban, and we must be aware of their concerns. Unilateralism died on Sept. 11th, and if we are to have any hope of stopping fundamentalism in the Middle East, we must prop up our allies in the region. In other...
...couriers to relay messages, who sometimes travel on foot rather than in cars. He has been extra careful since Chechen secessionist leader Dzhokar Dudayev was blown up by a Russian rocket while using a satellite phone. Though the CIA has often been criticized for its failure to infiltrate Islamic fundamentalist groups, Ranstorp is more forgiving. "The U.S. has expended as much energy and time as it feasibly could to get close to bin Laden. But he's very well versed in counterintelligence and in how to protect himself...
...attacks were indeed linked it seems more likely they came as a furious double-barreled blast at bin Laden's principal enemies: the man stubbornly resisting his Taliban protectors, and the superpower he sees as an intolerable affront to his twisted?and by no means typically Islamic?fundamentalist vision...