Our media projected Presided Musharraf as the central figure of the Afro-Asian Conference held on its golden jubilee in Jakarta, where President Musharraf called on the Muslim Ummah to follow the path of moderation. Pakistan is one of the five founding members of the Bandung Conference started in 1955, which met in Jakarta on its 50th year to resolve its commitment to eradicate poverty, to establish peace, progress and prosperity amongst member countries and nations. One thing that this conference has failed to address is Islam bashing by the West, which aims to destroy Afro-Asian unity.
It is a pity that the stamp of fundamentalism has been imprinted only on the Muslims of the world and not on the Jews, who influenced by fundamentalistic notions tried to crucify Holy Christ, which the fundamentalist Christians have conveniently forgotten even as they highlighted the crucification at the investiture ceremony of Pope Benedict XVI. So, why our Muslim brothers shy to call themselves Muslim fundamentalists and have coined a new terminology of being moderate Muslims. After all who is a moderate? This terminology is also undefined.
Surely moderate does not mean that the person who is moderate is an atheist. Atheism has no place in our religious order, every human being does follow some principle and in order to give a leeway to his principle and profession he calls himself liberal, just to be able to sit in the country of every religion, cast or creed.
For that matter even atheists are not liberal, the idea of God, which is professed by the world at large is abhorrent to them, yet they do not insist, so they are liberals because they do not subscribe to any fundamental principle of religion, for that matter there is no religion at all. Little do our liberals realise that by not adhering to their own fundamental principles they are just floating in the vast expanse of world polities, like a rudderless ship.
Let us not be scared of calling ourselves fundamentalists, we are proud of it. It is a religion, which has taught us the tenets of humanity and good governance, which the liberals and moderates are devoid of. It is a pity that the stamp of fundamentalism has been imprinted only on Muslims of the world and not on the Jews, Christians and Hindus. What a paradox?