I'm doing a research in the impacts of religious fundamentalism on Internationally recognised Human rights i.e. human rights in the UN declaration of human rights.

I'm specifically interested on fundamentalism in Afghanistan and its various aspects. Can you comment or provide insight on the situation in Afghanistan? Or on fundamentalism in other countries?

Religious fundamentalism threatens the rights of all those who are perceived as a threat to the religion's principles, and said principles often diminish the freedoms of those who follow them.

That is very true. You are so insightful.
Please post more.
Regards, SaberTooth

"said principles often diminish the freedoms of those who follow them"

That diminishes the whole foundation of religion in the first place. How could religions survive thousands of years if the structure of religion diminishes those who follow them????

In my view, a fundamentalist religion is a religion, any religion, that when confronted with a conflict between love, compassion and caring, and conformity to doctrine, will almost invariably choose the latter regardless of the effect it has on its followers or on the society of which it is a part.

"The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism. "
-Taslima Nasrin

Good point, UltraGirl!

Sorry. bit of a shameful self-promotion there

The Taliban

The Shia Family Law and what it represents at its very core is a clear paradigm of how religious fundamentalism can be a threat to internationally recognised human rights. When President Karzai signed this law, he did so in contradiction to Article 22 of the Afghan Constitution as well as to the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women, to which Afghanistan is a state party.