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• While the Dvorksy essay on "curing" fundamentalism that Stephen links to is well-intentioned George says of the fundamentalists that he wants to "return to them free will, rationality and self-respect" in order to help give their lives "meaning and purpose", I tend to share Stephen's concerns about this kind of memetic engineering. The Speculist: The Danger of "Memetic Engineering"
• Are fundamentalism and democracy mutually exclusive?
• Twentieth-century fundamentalism has acted as a drag on secularizing tendencies.
• Communism has been replaced by equally totalistic and militant forms of nationalism and religious fundamentalism.
• Fundamentalism is a cultural backlash to globalization; the alienated and angry young men of colonized societies and cultures react to the erosion of their identity and security.
• First of all, while the new strategy document specifically cites al-Qaeda as the biggest threat to the United States, it no longer uses the term "Islamic fundamentalism" for the same reason the Bush Administration stopped using it, because it is counter-productive to a policy that relies on the assistance of Muslims to be effective. Reza Aslan: Obama's "Weak", "Politically Correct" Counterterrorism Plan Will Make Americans Safer
• There is not a hint of irrational moral fundamentalism in what she has to say.
• The battle we really are engaged in - and we are too squeamish to describe - is against a particular brand of fundamentalism.
• Russia's brutal repression and lawlessness have pushed people towards Islamic fundamentalism.
• Such dualism, which in effect consigns the Other to perdition, is in modernity often a characteristic of fundamentalisms.