Religious Fundamentalism

Islamic Fundamentalism

Religious Fundamentalism

What is Religious Fundamentalism?

Fundamentalism refers to a belief in a strict adherence to an established set of basic principles usually religious in nature.

Fundamentalists Ideals (cont.)

Fundamentalists ideals

Why Do Radical Muslims dislike America?

• Establish world-wide Islamic state based on the Sharia
• ideological emphasis on the state
• View history as a cosmic struggle between good and evil
• Stress the need to resist the ungodly and evil dictates of secular systems

• Permanent stationing of troops in Saudi-Arabia
• Troops in Holy land of Islam
• Sins of supporting Israel against the Palestinians
• Exporting immoral culture into Muslim societies

Islamic Fundamentalism Movement

• Total way of life and a good alternative to western secular ideas
• Bring all modern society under God’s sovereignty
• Must have power in the world
• When they believe, they are powerful
• Power has been lost in modern times
• Restore their power

Human Rights controversy with the Sharia

• Reactivity to the marginalization of religion
• Selectivity
• Moral manicheism
• Absolutism and inerrancy
• Millennialism and messianism
• Elect, chosen membership
• Behavior requirements

Islamic Fundamentalist Movement

• Conflict with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Freedom from religious police
• Equality issues between men and women
• Separation of religion and state
• Freedom of speech
• Freedom of religion

• Part of a wider resurgence of religion across the Muslim world
• Reaction to the crisis of modernity linked with the rise of prophetic leaders
• Counterattack on secularism
• Revivalist and extremist
• Minority in most Muslim societies and states
• Multiple countries have adopted Islam as the ideological foundation of their political institution

The End!

• Part of a resurgence of religion across the Muslim world
• Reaction to the severe crisis of modernity linked with the rise of prophetic leaders
• Counterattack on secularism
• Revivalist and extremist

Islam

• Total way of life and a good alternative to western secular ideas
• Bring all modern society under God's sovereignty

• Islam means ‘submission to the will of God’
• 2nd largest religion in the world (23% of world pop.)
• Followers of Islam are called Muslims
• Believe that Islam was revealed 1400 years ago
• Believe there is only one God (Allah)
• God sent a number of prophets to mankind to teach them how to live according to His law
• Base their laws on their holy book, Qur’an and the Sunnah

Islamic Fundamentalism

Islam

• Islam means 'submission to the will of God
• 2nd largest religion in the world
• Followers of Islam are called Muslims
• Believe that Islam was revealed 1400 years ago
• Believe there is only one God (Allah)
• God sent a number of prophets to mankind to teach there how to live according to His law
• Base their laws on their holy book, Qur'an and the Sunnah

• Minority in most Muslim societies and states
• View history as a cosmic struggle between good and evil
• Stress the need to resist the ungodly and evil dictates of secular systems

• Conflict with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

May 2011

Christian Fundamentalism

in America

Westboro Baptist Church

Topeka, Kansas

• "God hates America" for its acceptance of homosexuality and abortion

• Regularly pickets military funerals

• Parody music videos of pop songs

• Children learn and memorize doctrine

• Obama is the anti-Christ

Website: godhatesf*gs.com

History

U.S. Constitution: 1st Amendment

• Fundamentalism began in the mid 19th century as many Protestant denominations shifted towards modernism and away from traditional beliefs in the Christian church.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

• Fundamentalism is a word coined in 1920 used to describe a group of Evangelical Protestants who supported a series of 12 Pamphlets which attacked modernist theories of Biblical Criticism

The U.S. Government protects the free speech and religious establishments of all Americans, even extreme fundamentalists

• Fundamentalists affirm a core of five Christian beliefs that include a literal and unquestionable translation of the Bible, the imminent and physical Second Coming of Jesus Christ, and Christ’s Virgin Birth, Resurrection and Atonement.

• Throughout the 20th century, fundamentalists have fought to maintain traditional Christian and family values, resisting much of modern culture. They have fought through outlets including public schools, the Republican party, and religious groups like the Family Research Council. Today, a large portion of Christian fundamentalists belong to the Southern Baptist Church.

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