What is Fundamentalism?
Friday, September 4, 2009
A MAJOR difficulty that Muslims encounter in the negatively charged, media-dominated environment in the US, particularly after 9/11 is the use of loaded language to refer to the central tenets of Islam.
One word which has been used extensively to depict Islam as a religion which is narrow-minded, rigid and militant is ‘fundamentalism’. It is important to note that the word comes from the history not of Islam but American Christianity.
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One word which has been used extensively to depict Islam as a religion which is narrow-minded, rigid and militant is ‘fundamentalism’. It is important to note that the word comes from the history not of Islam but American Christianity.
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