Two points must be added to Susan Jacoby's discussion of the Christian fundamentalist effort to force creationism into the science curriculum.
He worries that the scattered but spreading fundamentalist movement is hurting that effort.
That reasoning became the defining logic of the fundamentalist movement, and prompted an effort by the Church's national body to force the New York Presbytery to affirm the fundamentals of the faith from its pulpits.
Has Obama's decision to go to the latest National Prayer Breakfast partly been to align himself with fundamentalist Christians in an effort to win Israel over?
As such, she embodies a departure both from the religious temptation to police popular culture, in the manner of the Roman Catholic Church's now-defunct Legion of Decency, and the effort in fundamentalist circles to create a parallel universe of theologically safe movies, television and music.
This is the true heart of Islam that allowed the religion to succeed and become a global civilization, despite the best efforts of fundamentalists to poison the faith with violence and stupidity.
And the Pakistanis remain too preoccupied with their historical enmity toward India, sometimes at the expense of efforts to combat fundamentalist terrorists.
He described himself as an Islamic nationalist, not an Islamic fundamentalist, and called criticism of efforts by Muslim countries to obtain nuclear weapons, as well as his portrayal in the Western news media, unfair.
In the case of these Al Noor students, they are children of immigrants from places like Pakistan, Egypt, the occupied Palestinian territories and Yemen, which have been preoccupied for years by the efforts of Islamic fundamentalist movements to gain power through violence or the ballot box.
How many fundamentalist preachers are making similar efforts in making concessions to the theory of evolution?
Government officials say the bill is an effort to discourage fundamentalist Islam from taking root in France.
