The Baha'i administration has increasingly come under the control of fundamentalists

In his book Modernity and the Millennium, published by Columbia University Press in 1998, Professor Cole observes the Baha'i administration has increasingly come under the control of fundamentalists, "stressing scriptural literalism... theocracy, censorship, intellectual intolerance, and denying key democratic values (196)."

Similarly, Karen Bacquet has written an insightful article on Baha'i fundamentalism: "Enemies Within: Conflict and Control in the Baha'i Community," which was published in the American Family Foundation's Cultic Studies Journal, Volume 18, 2001, pp.109-140:

https://www.angelfire.com/ca3/bigquestions/enemies.html