Word: fundamentalistism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vengeance. Pius XII denounced Nazism but excommunicated all Catholic Communists. John Paul II upbraids the dictators of Brazil and the Philippines for their unfeeling attitude toward the poor but warns that nothing can be achieved through revolution or "the lie that is Marxism." At the same time, the Protestant fundamentalist penchant for ultraconservative politics sends frightened liberals scurrying away toward skepticism. Liberalism and Christianity, it seems, have become opposing forces...
...really served or betrayed the revolution?" So asked a senior Iranian politician as a debate began in Tehran-remarkably like the one in Washington-over whether the hostage deal was honorable, as claimed by the fundamentalist clergymen who negotiated it, or a sellout of the national interest. Similar questions were pointedly put to Behzad Nabavi, Iran's chief hostage negotiator, when he spelled out the terms of the agreement on Tehran radio. An Iranian phoned to ask him: If the hostages were spies, why were they not tried? If they were not spies, why were they arrested...
...right-wing clerics, who until recently wanted the Americans to be kept captive, managed to subdue the more Western-oriented moderates led by President Abolhassan Banisadr, who would have preferred to release the hostages. The mullahs gained control of the Cabinet, parliament and judiciary and forced Banisadr to accept Fundamentalist Mohammed Ali Raja'i as Prime Minister. Then Banisadr, as commander in chief of the Iranian armed forces, gained great popularity with the people by leading the war against Iraq. He cannily avoided any involvement in the fundamentalists' negotiations with the U.S., thus dissociating himself from the inevitable...
Still, there were catcalls and jeers as the argument raged on. "Is this the end of the revolution?" asked Amin Nasseri, an opponent of the bill. "Don't we say there is no difference between Carter and Reagan?" Hassan Ayat, an Islamic fundamentalist, raised a flurry of detailed questions in objecting to the pending agreement. The tart-tongued speaker, Hojatolislam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, asked anyone who agreed with Ayat to stand up. No one did. Scoffed one supporter of the legislation: "This Mr. Ayat thinks he is the scholar of all the parliaments in the world. The things...
...weeks earlier, disregarding State Department warnings of certain reprisal by the Iranians, President Carter had permitted the ailing Shah to enter the U.S. from his temporary hideaway in Mexico to be treated for lymphatic cancer in a New York City hospital. The Ayatullah, then 79, a Muslim mystic and fundamentalist who despised the West and held the U.S. in special hatred for its long support of the Shah, had flown into a pious rage. At his headquarters in the holy city of Qum, 80 miles to the south of Tehran, he told student followers that the U.S. embassy...