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NEWS ABOUT: fundamentalism

fundamentalism stories: 13 news summaries

(Newser) - Afghan lawmakers have passed a new law requiring women to submit to their husbands' sexual demands or be starved, reports the BBC. The new law is an amended version of a bill that forced women to have sex with their husbands at least every four days, and completely removed a... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Hamid Karzai • fundamentalism • Afghanistan election

(Newser) - The hallelujahs are strained in US churches these days as donations plunge at the same time demand for aid is skyrocketing, reports the Wall Street Journal. Congregations across the nation are slashing budgets and even laying off staff, including pastors. Churches and synagogues usually weather downturns well, but not... More »

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Catholic Church • Jews • religion • church • fundamentalism • Protestants • worshippers • donation • priest • synagogue • evangelicals • Baptists • pastor • baptism • temple • Catholic priest • women's issues • congregations • collection box • born again

 Indian Women Fight 
 Extremism With Underwear 

Journalist wages campaign in response to group that beats women

Mar 25, 09 2:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - A group of Indian women is fighting back against Hindu fundamentalism with an unlikely weapon: pink underwear, the Times of London reports. The “Consortium of Pub-going, Loose and Forward Women,” a protest group, has encouraged women to send their pink underwear to the leader of the Sri Ram... More »

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India • fundamentalism • attack • Hindu • Bangalore • underwear • Howard Stern Grid

OPINION

Fatwa Against Rushdie Set Off Self-Censorship

Edict brought Muslim
culture war to the
West: Hitchens

Jan 5, 09 4:27 PM CST
(Newser) - When Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie, Christopher Hitchens knew what it meant: "This was not just a warning of what was to come,” he writes in Vanity Fair, “it was the warning.” A global culture war, between Muslim fundamentalists and... More »

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Iran • Islam • Christopher Hitchens • censorship • religion • Salman Rushdie • Satanic Verses • fundamentalism • fatwa • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei • Danish Mohammed cartoons • culture wars

analysis

 Sect Style: Flamboyant Modesty

Women's uber-modest fashion clearly sets polygamists apart

Apr 27, 08 11:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - The women’s clothes from the Texas polygamist compound call to mind both Little House on the Prairie and prison garb. Yet there’s something elaborate, or even flamboyant, in the carefully crafted styles that set these women so distinctly at odds with modern culture, writes Robin Givhan in the ... More »

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fashion • polygamy • fundamentalism • Mormon • Mormonism • style • child custody • Yearning for Zion ranch

Texas Officials Justify Splitting Sect Families

Child-welfare authorities cite need to break 'code of silence'

Apr 15, 08 4:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Texas family-services officials today defended their decision to separate the mothers and children removed from a polygamous Mormon sect last week as the only way to get at the truth about alleged child abuse, the Houston Chronicle reports. Fifty-seven of the 139 mothers were forced to leave the group of... More »

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Texas • child abuse • polygamy • fundamentalism • Mormonism • Child Protective Services • Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Moms Return
to Polygamist Ranch

Texas moves their
kids to new shelter, plans legal battle

Apr 14, 08 8:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nearly 140 women from a polygamist sect returned home today as officials moved their kids to a new shelter, the AP reports. The mothers had joined 416 children who were seized by Texas troopers 2 weeks ago and taken to a historic fort. Today officials moved the kids to a... More »

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Texas • child abuse • polygamy • fundamentalism • court cases • attorney • Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

 Polygamist Moms
 Beg Governor
 for Help 

Claim state is 'traumatizing' their kids

Apr 14, 08 5:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mothers from a polygamist Texas sect are appealing to the governor to investigate the welfare of their children in state custody, AP reports. Three moms sent a letter claiming that several of the 416 kids seized in a raid on their compound because of suspected child abuse have been hospitalized,... More »

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child abuse • polygamy • fundamentalism • Mormon • Child Protective Agency • Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

 534 Taken From
 Polygamist Ranch 

Cops arrest one for interfering with evacuation

Apr 7, 08 6:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Texas officials have removed 534 people and arrested one in an ongoing raid of a polygamist ranch near Eldorado, the San Angelo Standard-Times reports. But the man they collared is only charged with obstructing the 4-day raid, not committing the rape that sparked it. Meanwhile, at a nearby historical fort,... More »

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Texas • marriage • religion • rape • child abuse • sexual abuse • polygamy • fundamentalism • Mormonism • Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Texas Pulls 52 Kids From Sect Compound

Rape charge sparks move at Warren Jeffs' polygamy site

Apr 4, 08 7:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Texas authorities pulled 52 kids from the compound of a polygamous sect today after a girl said she was raped there, the Houston Chronicle reports. Eighteen of the children were bussed out by court order, based on claims of abuse or neglect, and put into temporary custody. State troopers are... More »

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Texas • Arizona • rape • child abuse • polygamy • fundamentalism • Utah • Warren Jeffs • Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Fundamentalists Appeared After First English Bible

Having book in a common tongue allowed readers' own interpretations

Dec 12, 07 2:04 PM CST
(Newser) - The first English translation of the Bible led to the rise of fundamentalist interpretations of scripture, a Harvard professor writes in a new book. In Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and its Reformation Opponents, James Simpson writes that once the general public no longer had to rely on clergy... More »

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fundamentalism • Protestants • Islamic extremism • Bible • Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and its Reformation Opponents • James Simpson

'Geeky Hip' New Billy Graham Grabs Next Generation

Masses won over by Bell's 'Letterman' style

Dec 11, 07 5:30 AM CST
(Newser) - Bible-thumper Rob Bell wears geeky-hip glasses, once aspired to be David Letterman, and was momentarily poised for rock stardom, reports Time magazine. And he may be "one of the most important 21st Century Christian leaders," according to one biblical scholar. Nine years ago, Bell founded a nontraditional church... More »

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religious right • Christianity • Billy Graham • spirituality • Ira Glass • fundamentalism • David Letterman • evangelicals • Christianity Today • Rob Bell • Mars Hill

Iran Frees Murderous
Vice Squad

Convictions overturned for hardliners who killed "morally  corrupt" citizens

Apr 19, 07 4:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iran's Supreme Court has exonerated a group of Islamic hardliners earlier convicted of the vigilante killing of Iranians they considered "morally corrupt,"  the Times reports. Six members of the Basiji force, an elite paramilitary group, were originally convicted of murdering five people, including an engaged couple walking... More »

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Iran • Islam • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Basiji • fundamentalism • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

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