Edited sentence: But most so-called fundamentalists are pseudo-traditional, as can be seen in their attitude toward modern technologies and the destruction of the environment.Iranian fundamentalists have synthesized a variety of Western and non-Western ideas in their attempts to adumbrate and defend the revival of a political ummah.They have expropriated aspects of such Western and yet anti-liberal ideas as Marxism, fascism, syndicalism, national-socialism (and more recently, post-modernism) for concocting their own nativist syntheses