Your definition of known fundamentalism is not fair. You are also convinced to use the term as it is used these days. That's why I say most of us are brainwashed by international media as a plan to use our thought to support the international war games on political purposes using religion as a tool.
You said Osama Bin Laden....for me if he ever killed an innocent person....he is murderer....why should we say that he is fundamentalist …and then to relate his action to adherence to ISLAM where the killing is forbidden in his religion also....I don't know Bin Laden personally and I also don't know if he was ever charged in any court of the world for those crimes which are propagated.....neither I like him nor I hate him but what I know is when I was in early years of college (1987-88) and Soviet Union was recalling its army from Afghanistan, that time Osama Bin Laden was HERO of America (or CIA at least) because they overthrown the Soviet Union in association of Osama Bin Laden and his allies. What media says about him today, that's another story and there are other reasons to propagate that story.
In Osama Bin Laden current times ...fundamentalism is not adherence to Islamic core values (as you said)....but represent brutal actions against society.....so it is not fair to say that these days fundamentalism is adherence to ISLAM. Adherence to religion was always fundamentalism but a crime is a crime whether it is Islamic fundamentalism or Christian fundamentalism.
A person adhering the core values of a religion is, of course, a fundamentalist but not necessarily a terrorist or criminal.....and when someone becomes a criminal or a terrorist..he is enemy of the religion also and therefore his actions should not be related to the religion.
A killer is only a killer and not a Muslim, Christian or Jews killer. A thief is a thief in all religions and a terrorist is a terrorist in all nations and countries.
Your definition of known fundamentalism is not fair. You are also convinced to use the term as it is used these days. That's why I say most of us are brainwashed by international media as a plan to use our thought to support the international war games on political purposes using religion as a tool.
You said Osama Bin Laden....for me if he ever killed an innocent person....he is murderer....why should we say that he is fundamentalist …and then to relate his action to adherence to ISLAM where the killing is forbidden in his religion also....I don't know Bin Laden personally and I also don't know if he was ever charged in any court of the world for those crimes which are propagated.....neither I like him nor I hate him but what I know is when I was in early years of college (1987-88) and Soviet Union was recalling its army from Afghanistan, that time Osama Bin Laden was HERO of America (or CIA at least) because they overthrown the Soviet Union in association of Osama Bin Laden and his allies. What media says about him today, that's another story and there are other reasons to propagate that story.
In Osama Bin Laden current times ...fundamentalism is not adherence to Islamic core values (as you said)....but represent brutal actions against society.....so it is not fair to say that these days fundamentalism is adherence to ISLAM. Adherence to religion was always fundamentalism but a crime is a crime whether it is Islamic fundamentalism or Christian fundamentalism.
A person adhering the core values of a religion is, of course, a fundamentalist but not necessarily a terrorist or criminal.....and when someone becomes a criminal or a terrorist..he is enemy of the religion also and therefore his actions should not be related to the religion.
A killer is only a killer and not a Muslim, Christian or Jews killer. A thief is a thief in all religions and a terrorist is a terrorist in all nations and countries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden
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