A fundamentalist is one who believes:
(1) That his religion is the only religion through which any human soul can achieve salvation.
(There is no such insistence in any section of the entire Hindu faith.)
(2) That his faith is governed by some set tenets written in a book on the basis of which that religion was founded and not one word of the text of this basic scripture can brook any change whatsoever. That no one except those authorised in his religion has any right to interpret the provisions of the scripture and once any interpretation has been given, it is final and not open to any questioning or any challenge.
(There is neither such a book nor any such possibility in the Hindu faith)
(3) That if any person of his own faith or any other faith dares to question, challenge or seeks to provide an alternate interpretation, the top authorities of his religion possess a divine right to punish such individual including awarding of death penalty.
(There is nothing of this kind in the Hindu faith)
(4) That the entire edifice of his faith can get threatened by anyone inflicting the slightest insult to his holy book or to its contents or to his place of worship and is entire community must rise as a body to avenge it.
(The Hindu faith draws its power from the immortality of its belief. Millions of petty insults are inflicted not only by non-Hindu but even by fashionable modern Hindus, but its inherent shine remains undiminished)
(5) That he has a religious obligation to despise and denigrate any and every other religious faith and hence a religious duty to articulate accordingly, specially while seeking to convert others to his faith.
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