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fundamentalists will not accept Allah or Brahman a names for God as they conceive Him to
be. Hindus with their many names and forms for God don't mind accepting the Christian name
God or even Islamic Allah s referring to the same reality, though they may not use these
names in the same strict or exclusive sense as Christians or Muslims. A belief in God is not even necessary to be a Hindu, as such
non-theistic Hindu systems as Sankhya reveal. For those who speak of Hindu fundamentalism,
we must ask the question: What One God do Hindu fundamentalists groups insist upon is the
only true God and which Gods are they claiming are false except for Him? If Hindus are not
insisting upon the sole reality of the One Hindu God can they be called fundamentalists
like the Christians and Muslims?
Islamic fundamentalists consider that Islam is the only
true religion, that no true new faith can be established after Islam and that with the
advent of Islam all previous faiths, even if they were valid up to that time, became
outdated. Christian fundamentalists hold that Christianity alone is true, and that Islam
and Hinduism are religions of the devil. Even orthodox people in these traditions may hold
these views. |
