Word: fundamentalistism
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Students were the catalyst for the 1979 revolution that instituted the Ayatollahs. The United States, though, must resist the urge to directly intervene to help topple the fundamentalist regime. Though it is important that America stand behind the reformers, any direct action, or even over-enthusiastic support, could be a burden. In July President Bush made a direct appeal to the people of Iran to press for the political and social reforms that President Mohammad Khatami had been trying to achieve. Instead of spurring reforms, the comments merely gave hard-liners an excuse to launch a wave of repression...
...laws that barred him from serving in the first place and courts agree to lift the ban. Speaking to Time before the vote, Erdogan hinted that if he won a majority his government would try this route, though doing so could upset critics who suspect him of a fundamentalist agenda. In the short term, party officials are expected this week to appoint a replacement leader who will form a new government. Erdogan may not be in office, but he will be in power. "He won't take a back seat," says political analyst Mehmet Ali Birand. Turkey's problem dates...
...other money on other pet projects, including cloning his cat. "Mr. Walters is a pathetic drug-war soul who is defending a whole catalog of horrors he's indifferent to," Sperling says from his office in Phoenix, Ariz. "The government's drug-reform policy is driven by a Fundamentalist Christian sense of morality that sees any of these illegal substances used as evil." Sperling says he smoked pot to combat pain associated with the cancer he fought in the 1960s...
...four undergrads in my Divinity School class; the rest were twenty- and thirty-somethings well on their way to the pulpit. Their faith seems unshakable and, in a way, reminds me of a friend I had in high school. She was a card-carrying, Lord-praising, constantly evangelizing Christian fundamentalist. I saw her faith as suffocating her; she saw my lack of religion as a temporary step on the way to enlightenment. I’m sure she never regarded me as a bad person—merely a confused soul...
Sites promoting white supremacy, Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism are among those excluded from search results. Several fundamentalist Christian and anti-abortion sites are also filtered...