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They have been depicted as angry and alienated , united in opposition to modernity and tolerance , and as people who choose to live culturally separate lives involving a minimum of interconnection with the west and its values . By standing outside the mainstream of educational practice , Thoreau can help us transcend the false oppositions that have arisen between traditionalists and progressives , between the advocates of " basics " and those of openness and creativity-between the curriculum and the child , as Dewey put it . " International rights groups have criticized Mahathir 's government for using the country 's draconian internal security act to imprison opposition activists and suspected Muslim militants without trial . Some of the detainees were imprisoned in the past for their alleged sympathies with the Islamist opposition , and were amnestied in December 2003 under international pressure . Such oppositions have been filed against numerous patent applications on essential medicines that do not warrant patents under Indian law . However , evidence of a growing fractiousness within the Taliban could result in an emergence of a more moderate faction amenable both to dialogue with the international community and an accommodation with opposition forces . These generate oppositions that are fed by often unjustified mutual suspicions . His speech considered some of the systemic factors working in favour of incumbent governments and creating a lopsided playing field between them and their oppositions . The opposition have largely got their act together and are making a coherent case , blaming the economic woes ( 50 % inflation , 50 % unemployment and fuel shortages ) on the man who has been in charge for twenty years .