moderates

The truth, however, is that most Muslims appear to be "fundamental-ist" in the Western sense of the word__n that even "moderate"approaches to Islam generally consider the Koran to be the literal andinerrant word of the one true God. The difference between funda-mentalists and moderates__nd certainly the difference between all"extremists" and moderates__s the degree to which they see politicaland military action to be intrinsic to the practice of their faith. In anycase, people who believe that Islam must inform every dimension ofhuman existence, including politics and law, are now generally callednot "fundamentalists" or "extremists" but, rather, "Islamists.