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.
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.
Achieving peace with India would drain support from the fundamentalists and snuff out any thoughts of a jihad against the non-Muslim world.Can the politicians and diplomats seize this opportunity?
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.
The book's first half, which is concerned with the modes of thought and belief of fundamentalist Protestants, is saved by long extracts from interviews with the believers themselves.
And, like all fundamentalists, they have become incapable of nuanced thought and compromise.
