Word: quietistic
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Sistani does have detractors among Shi'ites who argue that as an Iranian, he does not represent Iraqis. Some characterize his quietist approach as cowardly. Chief among Sistani's rivals is outspoken cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who has built a following among poor, urban Shi'ites by calling on them to resist the U.S. occupation...
...back of a nationalist revolution and then cemented his authoritarian power through a Shiite doctrine called velayat-e fagih, or rule of the Islamic clergy. The doctrine is not widely accepted by Iraqi Shiites, including their most revered leader, Grand Ayatullah Ali Sistani, who favors the traditional "quietist" role of the clergy in politics...
...traditional response is student apathy. These are the quietist '80s: and these specimens, ladies and gentlemen, are today's college students, so obsessed with their career prospects that they won't lift a finger for the ideals they probably no longer even cherish...
...these days, at Harvard at least, the graduate students are largely quietist. A few Law School students have marched on the president's office and rallied, but these events are self-contained, and not, apparently, intended to mobilize undergraduates. The college students who come rushing through Harvard, glad at first to be here and glad at the end to be leaving, are in effect leaderless...
...been politicized over the past few years. No one (excluding street people) has shown any desire for a University that is a sanctuary. Harvard remains ideologically divided, through the division isn't fatal, and in time we'll probably pride ourselves on our "ideological heterogeneity." Given the current quietist strain in undergraduate life, that time is coming very rapidly indeed. For the last five years the University has successfully dodged a number of issues of conscience--not necessarily irresolvable national problems, but local issues like student discipline and the CRR. If Harvard continues its course for several more years...