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America's European allies, the recipients of much of that nagging, were outraged. Moreover, the U.S. was likely to forfeit the trust of moderate Arab nations that live in terror of Iranian-fomented Islamic fundamentalist revolutions and fear anything that might build up Tehran's military machine. Finally, the Administration seemed to have lost at least temporarily any chance of gaining the release of the missing six U.S. hostages in Lebanon, or of cultivating the Iranian politicians who might sooner or later take over from Khomeini. The 86-year-old Ayatullah is reported to be bedridden following a recent heart...
...affair to set any conditions for the release of the hostages in Lebanon," Rajaie-Khorassani said. But he conceded his Islamic fundamentalist government wields influence among Moslem groups in that Arab country...
...pagan" by a church that for centuries had preached unambiguously that there was no salvation outside its walls. The astonishing variety of the invited group also raised suspicions among some Christians that Assisi represented a heretical step toward syncretism, the amalgamation of various conflicting religions. For this reason, U.S. Fundamentalist Gadfly Carl McIntire branded the meeting the "greatest single abomination in church history," and Catholic extremists in France passed out leaflets consigning John Paul to hell...
...shouldn't the fundamentalist parents shelter their children? To quote Frost out of context, "Our children's imaginations have to be bounded." But what happens when the state--or a church or a group of parents--tries to shackle imagination...
Historians have speculated that the Condemnation of 1277 had an ironic positive effect, as thinkers and students had to consider alternative ideas previously seen as absurd--if only to satisfy the Church. Ultimately, the case of the fundamentalist schoolchildren is also one of tradition and its challenges. Censorship worked like self-critique, spurring creative thought for those 13th century learners. We can only hope the same for those in this century...