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How to use the word fundamentalists in a Sentence?

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Its a terrible thing, a terrible thing. We understood since the Canadian diplomat Robert Fowler was kidnapped in Niger that part of the world had changed ... with the introduction of Islamic fundamentalists into that part of the world, its gotten to be a much harder place... We were never worried about being kidnapped. Today, its a different world.

David Duncan

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Let me remind the prime minister that the war being waged against France today is being waged by Islamist fundamentalists bottle-fed by a laxist, sectarian Socialist Party.

Manuel Valls

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There is a battle going on in Bangladesh between fundamentalists and secularists, a blogger like Niloy Neel, the last one who was killed, was openly questioning fundamentalist thought. Organizations like Ansar Bangla wanted to shut him up -- and scare others into not talking.

Ajit Kumar Singh

Found on CNN
9 years ago

To us, Avijit Roy is no different than the 160 others that have been killed, we want to bring all the killers to justice. I understand why( Avijit Roy wife) is upset. My mother has been targeted by these same fundamentalists.

Sajeeb Wazed

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I don't think people will fault Abe ... because these people are fundamentalists and violence is their calling card, but when they start debating collective self-defense, this will be part of the narrative.

Jeffrey Kingston

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

You just can’t say that, just as you can’t say that all Christians are fundamentalists. We have our share of them (fundamentalists). All religions have these little groups, they (Muslims) say: ‘No, we are not this, the Koran is a book of peace, it is a prophetic book of peace'.

The Argentine pope

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.

George Carlin, You Are All Diseased

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art.

Robin Tyler

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The common dogma of fundamentalists is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity.

G Gaia

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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