The Jakarta Post,
Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali is telling Ahmadiyah followers to obey the law despite the fact that it was them and their properties that were under attack on Friday morning.
“There might have been something wrong in the region. We must to promote discussion to settle this kind of issues. But the Ahmadis must also obey the law,” he said on Friday at the State Palace.
Suryadharma was referring to the 2008 joint ministerial decree banning members of the Ahmadiyah Indonesia Congregation (JAI) from propagating their religious beliefs.
A group of vigilantes attacked an Ahmadiyah mosque called Baitul Rahim in Babakan Sindang village, Tasikmalaya, West Java. Read more
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was established in Indonesia in 1925. There are more than 200,000 Ahmadis with 200 missionaries and more than 300 local branches. The community is known to be of peaceful law abiding citizens who contribute in every sphere of life.
Ahmadis are recognised most law abiding and peaceful community in the world and we recommend the supreme head Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad for UN’s Nobel prize for peace for his wonderful contribution in his efforts to promoting peace worldwide and writing letters to world leaders for peace and asking them to refrain from conflicts leading to the world war, his efforts are most applaudable and worthy of recognition no doubt. HRRIF strongly put forward recommendation to the UN for Nobel prize of peace.
THE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIHGTS LAW ADOPTED BY ALL MEMBER COUNTRIES OF THE UNO PERMIT EVERY CITIZEN OF SUCH COUNTRY TO PROPOGATE HIS RELIGIOUS BELIEFS. IF ANY GOVERNMENT REFRAIN ANY CITIZENS OF FROM THEIR BASIC RIGHTS, IT IS VOILATING THE INTERNATIONAL LAW. INDONESIA IS A LIBERAL AND PROGRESSING COUNTRY AND WE DONOT EXPECT FROM THEM TO PUT SUCH RESTRICTIONS ON AHMADIA COMMUNITY WHICH IS PEACE LOVING ORGANIZATION
With the Minister talking lke that the attacks on Ahmadiyya properties is unlikely to stop.
The comment by the minister seems to suggest that Ahmadis are provoking the attacks on them by the mindless assailants. One should have expected the minister to descend heavily on those who now find pleasure in killing and maiming peace loving Ahmadis on account of their faith. That the minister failed to do so is a good pointer to the fact that he is part of the grand conspiracy to gradually annihilate members of the Ahmadiyya community in Indonesia.
I trust you mean ‘try to annihilate’, because, of course that will never happen, as Allah is supporting this Jama’at.
I have read this sad news with a heavy heart and would like to share my feeligs with dear brothers-in-faith of beautiful country, Indonesia. I think the Religious Affairs Minister,firstly, should have sternly warned the agitators, not to throw stones at Ahmadis, bowing their heads before God Almighty and these self-styled vigilantees (law-brackers)must not burn the prayer-mats and thus avoid taking law into their hand. The minister should also have instructed the civil administation and police personnels present at the scene, that no agitator should enter the Ahmadiyya mosque and disturb the peaceful worshippers. And moreover,no peace-loving Ahmadi should have been blocked to enter the mosque for Friday prayer. But what a strange statement has been issued by the Minister,calling upon Ahmadis that they also ‘obey’ the law. Well, if a law disallows Ahmadis to pronounce, propagate or act upon their faith,then such a law will be discriminatory and against the basic concept of universal/fundamental human rights. No one can accept or respect such a (bad) law, as it is against the most basic concept of freedom of human conscience. It is just like forbidding a man to inhale air. Can any one respect such a (un-natural)law? No,none at all. Let me say here that even if there is only one, yes a single Ahmadi on the soil of Indonesia, he is entitled to live and practice and preach and tell others all around what he believes in and what is his fairh or religion. This is his inalienable right just as he has the right to inhale air to survive and live a life,in society, by his own choice of faith and religious. To tolerate or allow anyone to kill others due to religious differences is simply inhuman and utterly cruel and unacceptable.Anyhow, we belonging to the world-wide members of the Ahmadiyya Mulim Community,living in more than two hundred countries bow our heads before God Almighty and pray for our brothers-in-faith in Indosesia and would like to say that our dear brothers and sisters, your present suferrings and humilation/deprivation, for the sake of God Almighty, will surely compensate you and make you all the more steal-like strong,stable and steadfast, to be more willingly ready to offer more sacrifices, yes! all for the sake of God as every thing is given to us by Gad, Rabbulalaameen, all meant for the further, greater glorification of true Islam, called Islam-e-Ahmadiyyat,Inshallah. Wassalam.
Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali seems to be a strange politician. Recently he played down the seriousness of a another attack on an Islamic boarding school in Pasuruan, East Java, saying it was just an ordinary student brawl. The school authorities claim it to be a discriminatory incident.
Last month he issued a statement that an anti-pornography task force was planning to regulate the heights of skirts. His statement reaped lot of scorn , including from one critic who said the problem was not the miniskirts but rather “mini-brains.”