Word: fundamentalistism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nonconservative matter. It is a question of who is best for the court. If there is going to be a fight in the Senate, you are going to find 'Old Goldy' fighting like hell." Goldwater attacked directly a claim by the Rev. Jerry Falwell, head of the fundamentalist Moral Majority, that all "good Christians" should be concerned about the appointment. Scoffed Old Goldy: "Every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right...
...strong indication of what the future holds for the Iranian people under fundamentalist leadership is the so-called Retribution Bill, legislation that is currently before parliament. It provides explicitly detailed punishment for the crimes of mayhem, murder, adultery, homosexuality, drinking alcohol, pimping and false accusations of adultery and homosexuality. Except for committing mayhem, all of these crimes, including drinking if repeated three times, are punishable by death...
Banisadr's special ties with the army hardened the suspicions of his fundamentalist foes, who already distrusted his "Western ideas," gleaned during his 16 years of exile in Paris. They convinced Khomeini that such close bonds between the President and the military could lead a counterrevolutionary coup. Vowing that he would "cut everybody's hands off" who threatened Islam, Khomeini fired Banisadr as commander in chief. He then issued a stern warning to military officers: "Politics in the army is worse than heroin. It destroys the army from inside...
...teach the students that living by the Bible is the road to real peace." Sartorial rules aside, Irvington's devout classrooms and moral aims are typical of thousands of fundamentalist Christian schools that have been popping up all over America. Some proponents claim that such schools, usually sponsored by local churches, are being born at the rate of three a day. They estimate too that the number of pupils enrolled has risen since 1971 from about 140,000 to 450,000-or roughly 1% of the current school-age population. The figures may exaggerate the growth; a number...
Throughout the history of U.S. education, as Lawrence Cremin, president of Columbia University's Teachers College, points out in a 100-year survey published last year, the pendulum has swung repeatedly between academic and religious values in U.S. schools. If, as ex-Principal Barton suggests, fundamentalist schools lean too far toward indoctrination and authoritarianism, public school educators are increasingly willing to concede they have been neglecting traditional values of character and citizenship in the classroom...