Pervez Musharraf Quotes
There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates.
Musharraf, Pervez. "Text of President Musharraf's Address to the Nation." The New York Times, 12 Jan. 2002.
Islamic modernists like Serageldin are many among the educated Muslims but their views are often drowned out by the violence and extremist statements of the fundamentalists. Ironically, the necessary intellectual freedom existed in the Islamic world one thousand years ago and Islamic science and other learning was as advanced as any and superior to most including the Christians.
While stating this and perhaps believing it, he still was the President of an autocracy where diversity was not tolerated at all. Religious police roamed the nation beating men whose beards were not long enough or women they believed improperly dressed, politicians who held diverse views were not allowed to run for the Parliament or even the Presidency, religious dissenters were executed for heresy.
She was dealing with a serious campus situation where an invited speaker, Chief of Police Kelly of New York City was prevented from giving his p resentation on the controversial “Stop and Frisk” rules by student protesters who opposed the practice. Brown’s tradition of hearing anyone on the campus regardless of point of view had been broken to the distress of most students, faculty and alumni.
Pervez Musharraf is a Pakistani politician and a retired four-star general who became the tenth president of Pakistan after the successful military takeover of the federal government in 1999. He held the presidency from 2001 until 2008, when he tendered his resignation to avoid impeachment.
