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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (118853)	11/7/2003 1:51:47 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

It's a fundamental principle of Islamists, not Muslims. This just gets more confusing .... I pulled up this link .... biu.ac.il [I'm not particularly endorsing this link but it has a definition of "Islamists" ...... "Two major trends in Islamic movements. One, we call the traditionalist. (The term 'fundamentalism' does not reflect the true facts. All of us are fundamentalists according to the definition in Western culture, that whoever believes the Bible is the word of God is a fundamentalist.) There are the tradition-oriented Muslim intelligentsia, the so-called 'ulema. Then there are the reformist or modernist Muslim intellectuals."(3) Both Islamic "fundamentalism" and "traditionalism" are used here interchangeably as referring to opposition to Islamic reformists, or "Islamists," who are less rigid in their views of Islamic law (Shari'a) and of non-Islamic cultures. At least as I read this passage. Islamic fundamentalist are quite rigid whereas "Islamists" are more inclined to be more accepting of non-Islamic cultures. This seems to be in conflic with what you're saying. jttmab