For radicals, it conjures up the image of theological obscurantism, political atavism, and the rejection of science, history, modernity, the Enlightenment, and the Industrial Revolution. For liberals, it means extremism, fanaticism and traditionalism. footnote ＊ For conservatives, the label evokes xenophobia, militancy and radicalism. T he slippery term ‘fundamentalist’ has been thrown at Khomeini so often, from so many different directions, that it has stuck. Iranian Parliamentary Deputy, Kayhan-e Hava’i, 21 June 1989 He carried out God’s Will, smashed idols, was willing to sacrifice his own son, rose up against tyrants, and led the mostazafin against their mostakberin. ‘How did Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini become an Imam? Much like the Holy Prophet Abraham.
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