Book club bullies
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Fundamentalists want to intimidate into silence all those who don't
share their interpretation of a text
Giles Fraser
Monday June 28, 2004
The Guardian
Fur has been flying in the small Gloucestershire village of
Brimscombe. Local boy done good Nick Page, who hosts the BBC2 Escape
to the Country programme, was to be the star guest at the local fete.
But just half an hour before the start he pulled out, objecting to
Christian propaganda displayed on one of the stalls. "We've got a
Christian fundamentalist prime minister sending hundreds of people to
their death every week and I couldn't believe people were promoting
these ideas - at a village fete of all places," he said.
Page is right to highlight the fact that Christian fundamentalism is
creeping into the heart of middle England. But to describe the prime
minister as a fundamentalist is flippant nonsense that seriously
misplaces the meaning of the term. Using the F-word as a generalised
insult for all those with religious convictions allows the real thing
to slip by unchallenged.
Giles Fraser
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