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Fundamentalism: Menace II Society

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Fundamentalism and the Shiite Uprising

Militant Shiites followed the Ayatollah Khomeini and took Iran away from the Shah. There was also Israel started to get more fundamentalist starting in 1974. India has a nationalist party, a Hindu nationalist party, I should say, the BJP. They've actually held power, like the presidency multiple times since 1980. And then today, there's still waves of fundamentalism going on.

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