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Instead, the most common interpretation has been that the world has entered a new era characterized by conflict “within” a particular civilization, namely Islam, with fundamentalist Muslims as much at war against moderates as against the West.
Just as some in the West advocated cooperation with Nazi Germany against what they saw as the far more menacing Soviet threat, so today some support Putin as a partner against the danger of fundamentalist Islam.
Hence, it is no longer accurate to think of the PAS as a fundamentalist party and the UMNO as moderate.
Overall, there are two conflicting images of Islam: a peaceful Islam, which is ready for dialogue and coexistence, and a fundamentalist Islam, which is militant and even terrorist.
They affirm the need for a shift away from the fundamentalist free-market thinking that has dominated poverty-reduction strategies in recent decades toward context-sensitive measures to promote sustainable development and equality.
For example, Hamas, the Sunni fundamentalist group that rules the Gaza Strip, has survived largely as a result of financing from Iran.
While the situation undoubtedly remains tense and unwieldy, religion’s waning political role may create an opening for progress, much as, say, Saudi Crown Prince Muhammed bin Salman’s willingness to discard fundamentalist imperatives favors modernization.
For decades, the Saudis have been using the money we pay them for oil to indoctrinate their population with a fundamentalist strain of Islam.
Saudi Arabia has long maintained (relative) internal stability by spreading its enormous oil wealth among its subjects, and by imposing on Saudi society fundamentalist Islamic doctrines based on the austere Wahhabi tradition.
Today's market fundamentalist creed fails to recognize that financial markets are inherently unstable.
Soon, however, the old messages depicting the Middle East as extreme, fundamentalist, and hostile to democracy began to re-insinuate themselves in the West.
One difficult question not raised during those discussions at Harvard is this: what would have happened if the opponent had not been Khrushchev, who behaved rather rationally throughout the crisis, but had been an irresponsible Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong Il or a fundamentalist?
Al-Qaeda’s terrorist network is seen as arising directly from fundamentalist Wahhabi teachings, which constitute an integral part of the Saudi regime.
In the wake of the ferocious religious war that tore Algeria apart in the 1990’s, a great number of Muslim fundamentalist Arabs fled south to the vast Sahara that covers part of Mali.
All, including the traffickers, ended up embracing the fundamentalist rhetoric of revenge against infidels.
But, with thousands of fundamentalist killers in the desert, now poorly motorized but still armed, should they do so?
Mali, of course, is not the only country facing a fundamentalist insurrection.
A fundamentalist adherence to Islam was a perfectly natural response to this.
But I also believe that the fundamentalist approach that can be sensed in certain circles is skirting the limits of the acceptable.
Right-wing American attitudes about their country’s place in the world are invigorated by fundamentalist dogma.
Although BJP members trumpet the party's fundamentalist Hindu agenda, it won power nationally on its promise to deliver good government after the seeming corruption and chaos of the Congress party's previous term in power.
Powered by a fundamentalist Wahhabi ideology and a boundless appetite for bloodshed, the Islamic State seeks a return to an imagined pre-modern caliphate that subjugates Shia and treats non-Muslims as second-class citizens.
Indeed, a major struggle is underway between those who want Indonesia to become more fundamentalist and those who want to preserve the traditionally open and tolerant nature of Javanese culture.
These positive identities constitute the best protection against the sirens of fundamentalist Islam.
Israel will not be able to avoid territorial withdrawals to the 1967 borders by exercising its military might; the US will not be able to ensure oil security through continued military occupation in the Middle East; and terrorists will not be able to destroy Israel or foist their fundamentalist ideas by force on moderate societies.
Fears are mounting, as official and fundamentalist religious forces now seem to operate with impunity – and the apparent support of local police, the ruling Bangladeshi National Party, and local authorities.
Similarly, the massive rise in the number of madrassas (religious schools) financed by Saudi and Gulf money – totalling roughly 64,000 and operating under the same fundamentalist Deobandi Islam that inspired the Taliban – is part of a clear effort to change Bangladesh’s culture of religious tolerance.
Here’s the translation to today’s world: your discovery might win you the Nobel Prize, but it also might get you a bullet in the brain from a religious fundamentalist.
NEW YORK – The world has not been kind to neo-liberalism, that grab-bag of ideas based on the fundamentalist notion that markets are self-correcting, allocate resources efficiently, and serve the public interest well.
Given that the Palestinians’ political leadership is divided between the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority, which controls the West Bank, and Hamas, which has established an Islamic fundamentalist regime in Gaza, a deal between Israel and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas would mean little.
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