Integrity is not extremism.
Truth is not extremism.
Honesty is not extremism.
Goodwill and love are not extremism.
What Islam has is integrity; not extremism.
What Islam has is the integrity of a comprehensive worldview built on truth, honesty, clarity, goodwill, and love — without the slightest doubt. Not extremism.
The group that makes only trade and profit its goal, that makes only hatred, falsehood, and envy its ideal, will not understand this.
Truth, honesty, clarity, goodwill, and love will have integrity. They will state it clearly.
The proponents of hatred, envy, and falsehood will not have — cannot have — the hypocrisy and disguise of saying one thing inside and something else outside.
One who is convinced of the truth will say with integrity that what he says is true. That is not extremism, not intolerance.
His integrity, honesty, and goodwill are not extremism, not intolerance.
One who sees a snake on the path will tell others like himself that there is a snake on the path, and will warn them.
Saying so is itself goodwill and love; not extremism, not intolerance.
One who has water in hand will try to give water to the thirsty, and will tell those seeking water that he has water in hand. That is not extremism, not intolerance, not an attempt at religious conversion — only love and goodwill. Only the basic quality that makes a human being a social being.
Such goodwill and love will have integrity, and clarity too. There will be no illusionism (mayavada) in it.
That goodwill, love, and integrity are not an attempt to gain vested interest, nor an attempt at religious conversion.
For the group that creates god-men, idols, donation boxes, false claims, and fables solely for the sake of vested interest, and deceives and cheats people by misleading them — it is no wonder that they feel goodwill, love, and integrity are only for vested interest, and no wonder that they try to make it seem so.
What belongs to Islam and to true Muslims — and what Islam and they equally clearly present — is the integrity of truth, honesty, clarity, and goodwill; not extremism, not intolerance.
Only like the things each country implements within its own clarity. Not extremism, not intolerance.
Only the clarity, free of hypocrisy, that says wrong is wrong.
Falsehood, deceit, envy, and hatred will not have that integrity; they will not have that clarity and precision. Goodwill and love do not apply to falsehood, deceit, envy, and hatred — except to expose the truth turned goat-into-dog [misrepresented], and even kill it.
What the proponents of falsehood, deceit, envy, and hatred need is only a stock of victims and scapegoats to carry out their falsehood, deceit, envy, and hatred.
Disguise and hypocrisy are the clothing of falsehood, deceit, and envy — acting hidden, rather than straightforwardly.
Instead of saying “I am right,” falsehood, deceit, envy, and hatred will say “everything is right” and thereby make themselves right too.
Falsehood, deceit, envy, and hatred will construct the fables and romanticizations of vagueness needed for this.
Falsehood, deceit, envy, and hatred will simply push forward the claim that “everything is right.”
This is how the emerging Sanatana-Hindu ideology’s mere, empty assertion that “everything is right” works — weaving false stories out of hatred, envy, and falsehood, scattering them before people who know nothing, creating only cruel emotion, and making violence and riots its path and ideal.
It is one that is entirely trapped in vagueness. One that says nothing clearly, has nothing to say, and does not give life a clear purpose, meaning, and sense of direction.
It lacks integrity precisely because it lacks the clarity to say that what it states is precisely and clearly true, and that what it says is directed toward a precise, clear goal.
It fails to attain integrity solely because it lacks clarity.
It is this that, by merely and emptily asserting “everything is right,” ends up leaving believers who understand nothing at all to wander everywhere, deceived and exploited through a hundred thousand god-men, a hundred thousand idols, and donation boxes.

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forthrightness and honesty are not extremism. A person or community that states its beliefs clearly, without hiding behind vagueness, is being honest, not hostile.
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