What kind of true Islam? If he means… the FPI, it’s better for us not to be Muslim– says
Firdaus, Jemaah Ahmadiyah Indonesia
This picture taken on April 9, 2013 shows zinc sheets covering fences and a sign reading ‘Bekasi government halts activities by Ahmadiyah congregations in Bekasi’ outside Al Misbah mosque in Bekasi. (AFP Photo
The Jakarta Globe:
Bekasi Mayor Rahmat Effendi and local Islamic leaders will petition President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to institute a nationwide ban on the oppressed Ahmadiyah Muslim sect.
“The request is part of an agreement between Bekasi ulema and the [local] government who met to discuss the Ahmadiyah today,” Rahmat told the state-run Antara News Agency on Monday.
The mayor met with the Bekasi chapter of the Indonesian Council of Ulema (MUI) to hash out a solution to the city’s strained relationship with its Ahmadiyah community on Monday. The solution, according to Rahmat, is a complete ban on the religious sect.
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I commented on the original newspaper:
President Sukarno, referring to members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, said that ‘all citizens of Indonesia are my children and I have to take care equally of all my children’. He may have been a dictator, but it seems a caring dictator is better than an un-caring democracy…