Word: worldview
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...such gives them preeminence incommensurate with their proper place in understanding the modern world. That is not to say that religious notions are not important, but that they do not in any discernable way warrant this special treatment. Moreover, we are not necessarily comfortable with the type of worldview engendered by what may amount to no more than an ephemeral inflation of the supremacy of religious ideas. Instead, we believe the best way to understand religious ideas as part of a general education is in the context of a balanced treatment of competing forces. Several of the proposed categories?...
...Much of the book deals with el-Wafi's phone calls with her son, visits to the U.S. for his trial, and efforts to improve his defense. But perhaps the most compelling aspects of her story involve the juxtaposition of her evolution and the French-born Moussaoui's worldview and hatred of the social values from which she had benefited. During one prison visit, for example, Moussaoui criticized el-Wafi's having taken out a bank loan to build the family house in Narbonne to avoid living in housing projects. Moussaoui also told her she was wrong not to have...
...Hasan Askari Rizvi, a former professor of political science who is now a political analyst. "Those who stayed learned not to touch controversial subjects. The role of the university is to advance knowledge, but at P.U. the quality of education is undermined because one group with a narrow, straitjacketed worldview controls...
...self-serving and mostly wrong. (The MSM really slant toward the institutional, establishmentarian center, which is a bias as dangerous as any other.) But while "fair and balanced" may be propaganda, it doesn't seem to be fooling anyone. Conservatives see Fox as a comfortable haven for their worldview; their opponents pretty much agree. The balance here is that Fox winks just as broadly to both sides...
...distinction between the two types matters, I suppose, because most Iranians don't share Ahmadinejad's anti-Israel worldview. They have no blood feud with Israel, and would cheerfully accept better relations if it meant their daily lives would improve. It's worth remembering that under the Shah, Iran had relations with Israel and no one much minded. Besides, Iranians are no dummies. Millions of middle-class Iranians travel to Turkey on vacation and see the shiny cars, international banks and consumer bounty that come along with a policy of accommodation. They want that for themselves. Sadly, their government wants...