Whats the Difinition of Enlightent Moderation ?

danial · June 26, 2006, 2:52am

Re: Whats the Difinition of Enlightent Moderation ?

Man with a Plan:

Enlightent Moderation was introduced by the President of Pakistan after 9/11. Now, whenever a new word is introduced, it gets two types of reactions. One good and other bad, Pakistanis who have a negative view of Enlightent moderation would use and give examples of bad things and situations, forexample I have seen Pakistanis blame 'Enlightent moderation' for bollywood movies in Pakistan. Now think for a moment, does this blaming makes any sense?

Question is intention. What was Musharraff's intention when he introduced this word? Is he telling us to give up our culture and become western? Is he telling us to drink alcohol? Do other haram things? Change the way we live, or change the way we think?

Simply, he is telling the nation to embrace path of socioeconomic uplift. Posotive thinking is not going to hurt anyone. I have seen many people who have no facts on religion and current state of the world but continue to preach what's right and worng.

We have a country that is divided between two types of people. Those with world knowledge, others with religious. Both of them are pulling the nation towards their way of thinking. They are in clash with each other, not knowing that unintentioanlly they are hurting Pakistan. Both of these sects can use a little bit of moderation and understand each other's point of view because we all want a better Pakistan, don't we?

good post.