Today, the fundamentalist movement in the Middle East calls for:

a move to freedom and equality for all.

adherence to Islamic political traditions.

respect for the rights of minority groups.

an embrace of Western ideas and customs.

adherence to Islamic political traditions.

Fundamentalist beliefs in religion mean to return to the fundamental or basic ideas of a religion.

Fundamentalists in the Middle East believe Muslims need to return to the basic principles of Islam. Many want to return Islamic countries to Islamic law as the Muslim Empires had been once been. This ideology also encourages rejection of western culture and ideas and a return to a purer form of Islam.