But now there are indications that humorlessness is an affliction that strikes religious fundamentalists across cultures.
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He said there is no way his son interacted with Islamic fundamentalists while on the trip.
Here his arguments are well-rehearsed and finely honed from decades of combating American fundamentalists.
We denounce this violence and these acts, we have nothing to do with fundamentalists or extremists.
"We are a moderate party and we have nothing to do with the fundamentalists, " he said.
Fundamentalists are delighted by the shift in attention away from their ideas to their rights.
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Still I believe that many free market fundamentalists are failing to acknowledge this confound.
That worldview asserts that the world is divided between the extremist Islamic fundamentalists and the moderates.
Globalized chicken wings, pizza and sodas have food fundamentalists fretting over cultural domination and protesting franchised fare.
There are folks behind the sort of Bob Jones University people, and fundamentalists who back Mitt Romney.
One emphasises her love for Iraqi culture, another, her awareness of the struggle women face from religious fundamentalists.
Asked if it was possible Tamerlan encountered Muslim fundamentalists while in Dagestan, he said there was no way.
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Mr Sharif has shown his softer side to the religious fundamentalists, of whom there are many different kinds.
In the traditionally conservative world of Italian soccer, he also annoyed the fundamentalists for being a little too iconoclastic.
At dawn Friday, French special forces there exchanged gunfire with several fundamentalists strapped with explosive belts, eventually killing them.
It is about the capacity of fundamentalists to insist the the world conform to their own image of themselves.
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Market fundamentalists in rich countries should recognize that unorthodox methods, if used judiciously, can work in times of crisis.
Some fundamentalists even maintain that adding anything to the ground beef is apostasy.
But on both the Catholic and the (smaller) Protestant sides there were fierce fundamentalists who allowed for no compromise.
He is the favourite to win - and some believe his victory would lead to efforts to marginalise the fundamentalists.
In the South the secular country-club party wing of the Republican vote is used to teaming up with the fundamentalists.
It took the attempted assassination of schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai for the Pakistani government to take an aggressive stance against anti-women fundamentalists.
From radicals to moderates, traditionalists to fundamentalists, South Asians to Arabs, the notion of Islamic finance realizing social justice is absolutely central.
Even so, now that the hopes of fundamentalists have been raised, the amendment's failure might provoke as much trouble as its enactment.
Human beings don't live by argumentation, and it's only religious fundamentalists and ignorant rationalists who think the myths we live by are literal truths.
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But the intolerant actions of these fundamentalists must be considered in the context of a minority language besieged by the culture of a strong neighbour.
Many fundamentalists dislike his insistence that Islam is a peaceful religion.
"There are fundamentalists here too in Bamako, " Ms. Keita observes finally.
Only one among a group of academics and students at the University of Punjab discussing the fundamentalists' control of the campus was prepared to be named.
Syrian opposition figures regularly complain that the main opposition umbrella group, the Syrian National Coalition, is dominated by fundamentalists from the Muslim Brotherhood backed by Qatar.
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