Definition of a Fundamentalist

Fundamentalism, like Secularism ,is talked about glibly. Let alone very senior politicians ,even highly enlightened press reporters get stumped when they are requested to define FUNDAMENTALISM .It is therefore, important to first know who is a fundamentalist, and what are his traits.
1)That HIS religion is the ONLY religion through which any human soul can achieve salvation.
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 his basic scripture can afford any change whatsoever. That no one except the authorized authority of his religion has any right to interpret the provisions of his scripture and once any interpretation has been given it is final and not open to any questioning or nay challenge.
3)That 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 provide punish such individual including award8ng of death penalty.
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 his entire community must rise as a body to avenge it.
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.
6)That he has a divine right granted to him by his religion to expand the number of his followers of his faith by converting the followers if other faith.
7)That by increasing the number of followers, he stands glorified in the eyes of his religion irrespective of whether such conversion us done by deceit ,by offering material temptations ,by exploiting their hapless plight., threats of force or by actually resorting to violence.
8)That he has a Divine right sanctified by his religion to desecrate and destroy the religious scriptures of other faiths.
9)That he has a Divine right to destroy the worship places of other religious faiths and by so doing he stands glorified in the eyes of his Lord God .
10)That the religious authorities of his religion have an undisputed right to lay down any code of personal conduct extending even to what should and should not be worn by the men and women belonging to that religion and further that there is a divine right to award punishments to all deviants to the extent the authorities deem fit.
By the above definition:
NO HINDU CAN EVER BECOME A FUNDAMENTALIST.

What really is sarva-dharma sambhava?

One of the most hallowed slogans of 20th century India is ‘Sarva-dharma sambhava’. However, the term has many anomalies with many presumptions. The term pre-supposes that there are various dharma, hence accepting its multiplicity automatically and then adjoins that we must keep the same respect feeling or reverence, toward every dharma as they all say the same truth though in different ways. But although it declares that there are various dharma and implores us to keep no distinction between them, it does not gives us any criteria to judge that what is “dharma” and what is “adharma”. So in practice ‘Sarva-dharma sambhava leaves it as adherents or believers help less or defenseless against any criminal political ideology like Islam and Christianity, which are masquerading as religion or dharma. Consequently a believer in ‘Sarva-dharma sambhava’ cant judge whether a particular ideology is really dharma or not. He treats both dharma and adharma alike. So ‘sarva-dharma in practice becomes ‘dharma-adharma sambhava.