Could you provide an example where a democractic process has legitimately elected a religious fundamentalist group? That is how I understand "the winner" in your statement, as if the group was elected by the people.
Neither Hamas nor the Egyptian Muslim brotherhood are fundamentalist movements. They're conservative, but that's quite different.
Naturally, people who feed off of pro-US media may think them fundamentalist (as some commenters here seem to), but their respective electoral platforms and governmental policies do not agree with such a characterization.
Ah, so the national security assistant to John McCain says Hamas is fundamentalist. Well, I guess it must be true then. How could I ever disagree with Wikipedia, silly me. They are _never_ biased in favor of US foreign policy positions, right?
Huh?
"Hamas is a radical Islamic fundamentalist organization that has stated that its highest priority is a Jihad (holy war) for the liberation of Palestine."
> a person who believes in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture in a religion.
"religious fundamentalists"
They're both Islamist, conservative, fundamentalist, pro-Sharia law, etc. etc. Both were or are still considered terrorist groups, and both have used terror tactics to murder opponents or enemies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Palestinian_legislative_e...