Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Concerned by rising militancy among Islamic fundamentalists who object to his secular and pro-Western policies, Sadat has launched a crackdown on dissidents of all persuasions. Over the past two weeks, more than 1,600 of the regime's most vocal opponents-Islamic and Christian militants, political activists, lawyers, journalists, professors-have been rounded up and imprisoned, to stand trial beginning this week. The charges: fomenting sectarian sedition, undermining stability, or simply violating the measure Sadat pushed through last year, known as the "Law of Shame," that makes it illegal to propagate rumors damaging to the state. Fifteen religious...
Helms reveled in that part of the job. He had never suffered an instant of doubt about right and wrong. He saw the muck of degeneracy, subversion and secular humanism befouling his cherished America. In 1960 the first of Helms' five-minute Viewpoints appeared on the 6 o'clock news. The commentaries, more than 2,700 in all, were broadcast twice every weekday until he first ran for the Senate a dozen years later...
...censorship; in acts of violence." He added: "What disgusts me so much about the 'morality' seeping out of the ground around our feet is that it would deny the legitimacy of differentness ... whatever view does not conform to these [New Right] views is by definition relativistic, negative, secular, immoral, against the family, anti-free enterprise, unAmerican. What nonsense. What dangerous, malicious nonsense...
...bill to limit the power of fedral courts-up to, but not including, the Supreme Court-to order busing. That would bring up a whole new issue for the New Right: whether to concentrate on restricting the power of courts, which conservatives are convinced are the runaway enforcers of secular humanism, to rule on social issues or whether to focus on the issues themselves...
...similar quandary. Pravda reported the Raja'i-Bahonar killings factually and tersely-a sign that the Kremlin is keeping its options open. The Palestine Liberation Organization is caught between its initial attraction to Khomeini, who has steadily supported the Palestinian cause, and the Mujahedin, whose secular views are closer to its own. Hani al-Hassan, a top adviser to P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat, visited Rajavi in France last week...