What the Fundamentalist?!

What the Fundamentalist?!

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What the Fundamentalist?!
Finding Fundamentalism in Non-Religious Spaces

Finding Fundamentalism in Non-Religious Spaces

Idealogical purity can exist in anything

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Tia Levings
Sep 22, 2023
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When I was a young Christian wife, I thought fundamentalism was something only found in the Middle East. It was after 9/11 and America was at war.

“Fundamentalism” was synonymous with religious extremism, but not my religion—theirs. The Taliban. Muslims. Al Queda. We Southern Baptists lumped every Islamic group together, smearing the lines between the …

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