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Conservatives see the writing on the wall, and it's the sense that the approaching juggernaut is unstoppable that fuels the political backlash. What conservatives cannot prevent in the broader culture they hope to at least retard, even if only around the edges, through the electoral process. But as with women's rights and civil rights, the genie cannot be stuffed back into the bottle...
...split in Fatah embodied in the Abbas vs. Barghouti race is not simply a debate over strategic direction; it's also a product of the grassroots backlash against the corruption and cronyism created by Yasser Arafat in his reliance on the politics of patronage to run the Palestinian Authority. It was the first intifadah, which raged from 1987 to 1991, that did more than anything else to ensure Arafat's triumphant return to the West Bank under the Oslo agreements, but the local leadership of Fatah in the West Bank and Gaza, who had risked and sacrificed the most...
...defeated," Shays told TIME afterward. Even some of DeLay's ideological soulmates were outraged. Arizona Representative J.D. Hayworth wouldn't comment to TIME on what he said in the caucus. But other Congressmen who were there say the conservative gave an impassioned speech, warning his colleagues that the backlash from the rule change could "jeopardize the very majority [DeLay] has worked so hard to build." --By Douglas Waller
...controversial new book has sparked a backlash, prompt-ing a store in Minneapolis, Minn., to abruptly rescind a speaking invitation to the author. Is it a racy Henry Miller--style novel? A political screed? A Howard Stern tell-all? No, the Rrated tome arousing concerns about obscene language and public decency is, of all things, a cookbook...
...calm, tolerant, liberal Netherlands? The answer is yes. Minutes after the Nov. 2 slaying of firebrand filmmaker Theo van Gogh, who recently aired a controversial movie on Islam's alleged abuse of women, a Muslim with suspected terrorist ties was arrested for the murder, touching off a religious backlash that reached all the way to Parliament. As one politician went into hiding after being marked for death in a letter pinned to van Gogh's body with a knife, the right-wing coalition government proposed closing radical mosques, ramping up monitoring of foreign imams and stripping suspected extremists of their...