Comments on: There are “extremist fundamentalists” and then there are “extremist fundamentalists” http://www.harmonicminer.com/wordpress/2009/02/17/there-are-extremist-fundamentalists-and-then-there-are-extremist-fundamentalists/ Digging for golden resonance, and resonant gold Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:01:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: harmonicminer http://www.harmonicminer.com/wordpress/2009/02/17/there-are-extremist-fundamentalists-and-then-there-are-extremist-fundamentalists/comment-page-1/#comment-1477 harmonicminer Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:37:08 +0000 http://www.harmonicminer.com/wordpress/2009/02/16/there-are-extremist-fundamentalists-and-then-there-are-extremist-fundamentalists/#comment-1477 Hmm... Aly, have you read much about the Irish conflict? It was primarily a nationalistic affair, with religion in the mix as a reflection of that nationalism. To call either side "fundamentalist" simply because both sides used violence (normal in a nationalistic conflict, of course) is to so abuse the term that it no longer applies to those for whom it was invented. On the other hand, Islamic fundamentalism's tendency to violence transcends nation, culture, even language. It is an utterly international affair, whose only link is a return to the fundamental principles of Islam as taught and lived by Muhammed. Hmm… Aly, have you read much about the Irish conflict? It was primarily a nationalistic affair, with religion in the mix as a reflection of that nationalism. To call either side “fundamentalist” simply because both sides used violence (normal in a nationalistic conflict, of course) is to so abuse the term that it no longer applies to those for whom it was invented.

On the other hand, Islamic fundamentalism’s tendency to violence transcends nation, culture, even language. It is an utterly international affair, whose only link is a return to the fundamental principles of Islam as taught and lived by Muhammed.

]]> By: Aly Hawkins http://www.harmonicminer.com/wordpress/2009/02/17/there-are-extremist-fundamentalists-and-then-there-are-extremist-fundamentalists/comment-page-1/#comment-1476 Aly Hawkins Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:53:16 +0000 http://www.harmonicminer.com/wordpress/2009/02/16/there-are-extremist-fundamentalists-and-then-there-are-extremist-fundamentalists/#comment-1476 Um...Ireland? Um…Ireland?

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