Summary
Stuart Sim: The World of Fundamentalism
The New Dark Age of Dogma
The world is striving for fundamentalism - the return of the extreme right to the political scene, the events of 9/11, suicide bombers in the Middle East, campaigns against multiculturalism, the anti-abortion movement, the teaching of creationism in schools, attacks on the Miss World pageant - what connects all these seemingly unrelated phenomena? All these are the consequences of a fundamentalist mentality, determined to suppress everything that opposes its ideas. It was assumed that such a belief was on the wane - Stuart Sim claims that this is far from the truth. Although the world became aware of fundamentalism with the Iranian Islamic revolution in 1979, since Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini won the power struggle in that rich Middle Eastern country, fundamentalism has been ubiquitous in other religions of the world for centuries. Just remember the Christian burning of witches, casteism in Hinduism and similar fundamentalist activities throughout human history.
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