[Lexicog] Fundamentalist etc

[Peter Kirk]

On 24/02/2005 16:33, David Tuggy wrote:

>...
>
>I perhaps should have mentioned the word "fundamentalist", which is much
>further along the road to being a (mere) smear-word.
>
>
>
Along the same lines, I understand (largely from regular items on
Forum18 News, http://www.forum18.org/) that the name Wahhabi, originally
designating a particular Islamic sect from Saudi Arabia, has in the
southern parts of the former Soviet Union become a general term for
Islamic fundamentalists, and in Uzbekistan has even been applied, by
government officials, to Jehovah's Witnesses perceived as fanatics. A
rather rapid shift of meaning here.

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Peter Kirk
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