Religious fundamentalism
“…the faithful shall take up serpents…”
Religious fundamentalism: Religious movement whose objectives are to return to the foundations of the faith and to influence state policy.
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Religious extremism
Jihad
Religious extremism: religious fundamentalism carried to the point of violence.
Interfaith boundary: Boundaries between world’s major faiths. Example: Christianity and Islam
Intrafaith boundary: boundary within a single major faith. Example: Sunni vs Shia
Clue: The 10th Parallel: ‘Where Christianity And Islam Meet’
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Mass grave, Bosnia 1994
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Central African Republic
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Mali
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Taliban
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India/Pakistani Partition (1947): “There are numerous eyewitness accounts of the maiming and mutilation of victims. The catalogue of horrors includes the disembowelling of pregnant women, the slamming of babies' heads against brick walls, the cutting off of victims limbs and genitalia and the display of heads and corpses.”
NUKES India 100 Pakistan 120
Chad: Peaceful coexistence…
Full face veil