kolaati - a typical Malaysia citizen

This is the controversial lecture by Anwar Ibrahim at the London School of Economics on 18 March 2010 on religion and pluralism. The lecture text was earlier published in his blog http://anwaribrahim.blog.com , but later taken out due to uneasiness of Muslim people from his home country. The text is also accessible from http://newasiarepublic.com/?p=17060 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let me begin with a cryptic line from T.S. Eliot’s “Burnt Norton”: “Go, go, go, said the bird: Human kind Cannot bear very much reality.” But I say bear it we must for indeed, it is a stark reality of our world that certain religious groups hold that only certain fundamental doctrines may lead to salvation. This exclusivist outlook unfortunately cuts across the board as between religions as well as within the denominations. In Christendom, we have seen the schisms and consequent upheavals arising from this sense ...