Word: fundamentalistism
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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...
...growing strength, Helms is not a charismatic man. People are stirred far less by his presence than by the fundamentalist message he preaches. He is moralistic, railing about good and evil, often simplistic and polarizing. His soft voice is a kind of disguise for the words he speaks. He has a mean streak and can be cruel to his opponents, taking public note, for example, of Senator Ted Kennedy's swimming skills...
...Globensky, his former campaign manager and a similarly obdurate conservative, was rejected by voters in the March 24 primary. The man who beat him, and who last week swamped Rodebush by 3 to 1 in a special election to fill Stockman's seat: Mark Siljander, 29, a Fundamentalist Christian perhaps even more conservative than Stockman...