Enlightened moderation

<h2 id="criticism">Criticism</h2>
<p><a href="/facts/Islamic_Fundamentalism/1bxNg0aJ">Fundamentalist Islamic organizations</a> have criticized Musharraf's vision of enlightened moderation. The <a href="/facts/Jamaat-e-Islami_Pakistan/nmkjxwl3">Jamaat-e-Islami</a> condemns it as a <a href="/facts/Neologism/vlq6w82X">neologism</a> for <a href="/facts/Westernization/1CqhvF51">Westernization</a> and <a href="/facts/American_imperialism/hd2Pxs5u">American imperialism</a>. Islam is innately a religion of enlightened moderation, they argue, and needs no Westernized amendments.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> Masooda Bano points out that the US is not likely to "suddenly metamorphose into a benevolent entity, which will 'resolve all political disputes with justice.'"<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a>
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Secularism_in_Pakistan/9T3DWFRk">Secularism in Pakistan</a></li></ul>
<h2 id="references-and-notes">References and notes</h2>

<h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2>
<ul><li>Compare and contrast to "Enlightened Underdevelopment." 1994. The Spirit and Power of Place: Human Environment and Sacrality: Essays Dedicated to Yi-Fu Tuan. In Rana P.B. Singh (ed.). Pps: 87-100. Varanasi, India: NGSI Publications No. 41. Concurrently published under same title in National Geographical Journal of India  40,1-4:87-100.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.jamaat.org/Isharat/ish0704.html">Jamaat-e-Islami "“Enlightened Moderation” Or The New US ‘Religious Order’"</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080704054214/http://www.jamaat.org/Isharat/ish0704.html">Archived</a> 2008-07-04 at the <a href="/facts/Wayback_Machine/nmQ3a6JC">Wayback Machine</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"A Plea for Enlightened Moderation", by Pervez Musharraf, June 1, 2004, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5081-2004May31.html" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5081-2004May31.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Ayman Al-Zawahiri's Interview to Al-Sahab (Part II): Osama Bin Laden Still Commands the Jihad, but the Jihad Is Larger than Individuals. Mujahideen Should Attack Oil Infrastructure in the Middle East <a href="http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=952" target="_blank">http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=952</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>[1], p. 63 <a href="https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA437501.pdf" target="_blank">https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA437501.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>A Plea for Enlightened Moderation <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5081-2004May31.html" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5081-2004May31.html</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>A Plea for Enlightened Moderation <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5081-2004May31.html" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5081-2004May31.html</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:6"><p>A Plea for Enlightened Moderation <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5081-2004May31.html" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5081-2004May31.html</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:7"><p>Jamaat-e-Islami ""Enlightened Moderation" or the new US 'Religious Order'" Archived 2008-07-04 at the Wayback Machine, by prof. Khurshid Ahmad, accessed 12 February 2005. <a href="http://www.jamaat.org/Isharat/ish0704.html" target="_blank">http://www.jamaat.org/Isharat/ish0704.html</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:8"><p>Masooda Bano,  "Unraveling 'Enlightened Moderation'", Al-Ahram, 17–23 June 2004 ,Issue No. 695 <a href="/wiki/Al-Ahram" target="_blank">/wiki/Al-Ahram</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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