Word: fundamentalistism
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...total of 40,000 independent mosques, which had operated without government supervision and were often the centers of denunciations of the Sadat regime, were "nationalized," meaning that their imams (preachers) are to be replaced by "enlightened," government-sanctioned Islamic leaders. Complained one fundamentalist: "Every Muslim has his favorite sheik and his favorite mosque. How is he going to feel when he goes to pray on Friday and finds a government employee there instead...
...contingent of heavily armed Islamic guards arrived at Evin Prison in northwest Tehran in a caravan of largely empty Jeeps and minibuses. As sleepy-and astonished-prison guards watched, the intruders rounded up some 150 prisoners, many of whom had recently been incarcerated for political crimes by the fundamentalist courts of the beleaguered Khomeini regime. Corralled into groups of eight to ten, the prisoners were led outside to the waiting vehicles. When some guards objected to the mysterious procedure, they were crisply told to mind their own business...
...radio address, Khomeini warned leaders of the fundamentalist Islamic Republic Party that parliament was a likely target for bombing by insurrectionist forces. He then strove to assure Iranians that Iran is "the most stable country in the world." After naming Ayatullah Mohammed Reza Mahdavi Kani, a former interior minister, as Prime Minister to replace the assassinated Mohammed Javad Bahonar, the Imam intoned: "When a Prime Minister is assassinated, another is appointed the same day, and when a President is assassinated, another is elected right on schedule...
...1970s, fundamentalist Christians began using "secular humanism" as a term of opprobrium for nonreligious education. It has grown into a New Rightist code word for the precepts and practices of almost anyone this side of Communism who disagrees with them, including liberals, feminists, atheists, civil libertarians, internationalists...
...leading political dissidents and religious militants. Mohammed Heikal, author, journalist and confidant of the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser, was roused at 3 a.m. at his summer villa in Alexandria and escorted -"gently," said an aide-to Cairo's Tora Prison. Sheikh Abdel Hamid Kishk, a blind fundamentalist preacher renowned for his rigid Islamic orthodoxy, was jailed for his vitriolic sermons against Copts. Five other Muslim imams were also arrested, along with seven activist members of the Coptic clergy...