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The south California four-piece are the Beatles forged in hell, waging ceaseless war against fundamentalist thought and doctrine.
Just after the news on Wednesday that the so-called Soldiers of the Caliphate -descendants of Algeria's bloodthirsty 1990s jihadists -- had decapitated rock climber Hervé Gourdel in Algeria, claiming they would "get closer to God by killing this Frenchmen", I asked Cherifa Kheddar what her reaction was to President Obama's call for a global struggle against fundamentalist thought.
"There still seems to be a great deal of dissonance between the way the authorities understand the role of 'extremist ideology' or 'radical fundamentalist thought' in the case of Muslims, and the subscription to far-right ideology".
Fundamentalist thought relies on pre-processed sound-bites that obstruct any considered address of real-world problems.
Even during the days when fundamentalist thought dominated evangelicalism, there was a resistant, if minority, strain that insisted there was a different way.
Jamil Omar, a former trade unionist and anti-militant campaigner with Pakistan's Awami Jamhouri Forum, who was facing such persistent threats when I met him that he tried not to spend much time near colleagues because he might endanger them, told me that the core task ahead was "challenging fundamentalist thought".
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Like Zia, Gul was a pan-Islamist fundamentalist in thought and had no qualms about achieving those ends through jihadist means and terrorist proxies.
We are all capable of this fundamentalist form of thought when we are cornered.
Moreover, they lack the cultural attitudes descended from the fundamentalist resistance to modernist thought, such as a distrust of science, a rejection of institutional solutions to poverty, and the notion that evangelicals are the saving remnant of Christianity and the American tradition.
The event underscored the emerging division among Americans between modernist thought and more fundamentalist values.
Murphy later told The Huffington Post that many of his fellow lawmakers have for some time been privately expressing the criticisms he made of Saudi Arabia -- namely, that it has encouraged the spread of a fundamentalist, intolerant strain of Islamic thought, and that the war it is fighting with U.S. support in Yemen has achieved little besides giving al Qaeda more room to flourish.
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