Islamic fundamentalism

1. A movement that has gained momentum in recent decades within several Muslim nations. Islamic fundamentalists oppose the infiltration of secular and Westernizing influences and seek to institute Islamic law, including strict codes of behavior. They also target political corruption in Muslim nations. Severely repressed by the governments of their own nations, such as Algeria, Egypt (see also Egypt), and Saudi Arabia, they nevertheless target the United States as the “Great Satan,” chant “Death to America,” and provide ready recruits for terrorist networks such as Al Qaeda. (See terrorism.)

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Hamas — which does not recognize Israel’s right to exist as a state and has spoken about driving all Jews from the region — has advocated for the creation of a Palestinian state based on Islamic fundamentalism.

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Mazzola, who works for Italian public RAI TV and is an expert on Islamic fundamentalism, created a network of associations to host 70 Afghans, mostly Hazara women activists and their families.

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Women were mandated to fully cover their hair, wear long overcoats, or preferably black chadors, and effectively claim their invisible status in a society now steeped in Islamic fundamentalism and determined to quash the female voice.

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Speaking as a former teenage believer, I concur: Islamic fundamentalism is a wholesale assault on the foundational principles of the West.

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Pakistan is swept by an Islamic fundamentalism that sees acts of dissent as blasphemy worthy of violent punishment.

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