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Today, that threat results from radical Islamism – a fundamentalist vision of society reordered according to Sharia law.
The choice has become Assad’s vicious regime or a fundamentalist Islamist alternative – not oppression or freedom.
The encounter between the images of today’s Middle East and the discontent of Muslim minorities (sometimes influenced by radical fundamentalist ideologies) should not be allowed to obscure traditional French anti-Semitism, white and bourgeois, which still lingers and is never far beneath the surface.
Indeed, President Hafez Al-Assad, Bashar’s father, massacred up to 38,000 mainly Sunni fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood insurgents in Hama in 1982.
Indonesia is increasingly in the news because of its large Muslim population, the rise of fundamentalist rhetoric, and purported connections to international terrorism.
The greater challenge is the ongoing struggle within the worldwide Islamic community, the Ummah, between moderate, progressive Muslims on the one hand and fundamentalist extremists on the other.
What if the American dream of bringing democracy to that troubled country ends in its citizens electing a fundamentalist movement to power?
This aggressive, fundamentalist path is inexorably leading Pakistan back centuries in time.
These patrols must receive gender-sensitive training and prioritize women’s security over tribal or fundamentalist religious values.
Indeed, fear of our own awesome power explains the appeal of environmentalism, with its vision--particularly in its fundamentalist, quasi-religious variant, so-called "deep ecology"--of an intrinsically "pure" Nature whose harmony is supposedly disrupted by man.
This is not true of totalitarian or fundamentalist regimes, because, to foster free societies, they must be deposed.
But that does not exculpate the Arab fundamentalist monarchies for their role in reviving the seventh-century vision that ISIS (and others) seek to realize.
Some suggest that, given his Sharia studies, Abdel-Jalil might be an Islamic fundamentalist.
Iran is now trying to convince the United States that a fundamentalist caliphate stretching from Aleppo to Baghdad poses a far greater threat than nuclear weapons.
If any proof of this clash of values were needed, it came in the form of a hugely impressive counter-demonstration against the Shahbag movement led by activists of the fundamentalist Islamic movement Hifazat-e-Islam, which occupied the capital’s Motijheel area.
In Poland, supposedly a Catholic country, there is a radio program and daily newspaper owned by "Radio Maria," both public voices of a charismatic, xenophobic, and fundamentalist priest who loathes our liberal society.
But what they have done is encourage their own radicals – a natural byproduct of Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia’s fundamentalist brand of Islam – to commit their terrorist acts elsewhere.
Nevertheless, the presence of doctors and engineers in fundamentalist movements stands out.
In fact, fundamentalist leaders often have professional backgrounds.
Among engineers and biomedical professionals, however, conservative, even fundamentalist religious leanings are not so unusual.
But the possibility of violence should not distract us from noticing that fundamentalist convictions also motivate positive political activism.
Indeed, fundamentalist professionals often excel in such activism.
But the claim that such a slight change – from 2.7% in December to 2.9% in January (which observers view as an aberration, caused by seasonal factors) – could trigger a stock-market correction is in itself a strike against the fundamentalist view.
While their work encounters great resistance from traditionalist and fundamentalist circles (whose views are widely covered in mainstream Muslim and Western media), these contemporary reformers - and the questions they have raised - have had a big impact on a rising generation of Muslim intellectuals around the world.
In recent months, Bush undermined biological theories of evolution in favor of Christian fundamentalist dogmas.
Even if the US avoids a fundamentalist dark age, it clearly risks losing its global research dominance.
Unsurprisingly, 2006 brought another resounding rejection of fundamentalist neo-liberal policies, this time by voters in Nicaragua and Ecuador.
What we have witnessed since August is the latest battle in a Kulturkampf between Russia’s liberal intelligentsia and conservative, often fundamentalist, believers in the unity of the Orthodox Church and the Kremlin.
By toppling old regimes that, while ruthless and corrupt, were a bulwark against fundamentalist radicalism, the Arab Spring uprisings gave extremists new opportunities to become relevant political players.
Moreover, politicians must reconsider much of the ideological super-structure erected on market fundamentalist assumptions.
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