Prez wrote on Aug 20, 2012, 18:26:
Fundamentalism is insanity no matter where it is found in the world.
Maybe, but there are different forms of fundamentalism. Mahatma Ghandi and Osama Bin Laden would both fit the general definition (not the anti-modernist Protestant Christian definition) of fundamentalism if it's boiled down to the simple definition of strict adherence to dogma or prescribed principles. I don't think I need to point out the difference between a pacifist Hindu fundamentalist and a radical Islam extremist fundamentalist...
True enough, should have wrote religious fundamentalism instead, I was having in mind things like the Westboro church, the Islam fundamentalists, the Ultra-orthdox Jews, etc. Religious fundamentalism, in the sense where they take things to such an extreme where everyone else becomes a pariah that should be ostracized at best and killed at worst.
Though I am of the opinion that anything, even a good idea, if taken to the extreme will end up having negative repercussions for all.