Questions for Musharaf

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President Pervez Musharraf answers your questions
BBC Talking Point on Thursday, 11 September
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Thanks :slight_smile:

And btw, here is the correct link

serous? i thought i had that same link.... thank u :)

Liked the closing argument:

  • *Robin Lustig: *

We're nearly at the end of the programme Mr President. I just want to return to the way in which we started. We started by talking about the relationship between Islam and the West, you've spoken a great deal about Islam and change Islam and modernity. Do you believe that the tension is actually more between Islam and modernity than it is between Islam and the West?

  • President Pervez Musharraf:

I think in Islam we believe in balance. Islam is a religion that believes in balance. I think *while we would not like to be westernised, we certainly ought to be modernised. We ought to have a modern approach to development, modern approach to progress and enlightenment. But certainly we would not like to be westernised. *

We would like to learn from the West but we have our own social compulsions, our own social guidelines which we would like to adhere to. And these social guidelines are very balanced guidelines and I think they are right, they are correct, and that is what every Muslim wants to follow. *We would like to follow our own Islamic social code and not give them up for westernisation. And if you are calling modernism as westernism, yes I would like to differentiate, we would not like to go on to the social westernisation. We would like to address all issues in a modern way. I don't see a conflict. *