The Jakarta Post:
Jakarta. An Ahmadiyah community in West Java has lashed out at a call for a ban on its activities by the country’s highest clerical council, which only days earlier backed a declaration of jihad, or holy war, against another maligned minority group.
In an open letter sent on Thursday to the Indonesian Council of Ulema, or MUI, the Ahmadiyah congregation in Ciamis, West Java, questioned the clerics’ authority to forbid them from practicing their faith.
“If the Ciamis chapter of the MUI or any residents’ group has any objections with the Ahmadiyah, please address them according to the proper procedures, and don’t take the law into your own hands,” the letter said.
It noted that there was nothing in the law that permitted the MUI or any other group from trying to force a ban on Ahmadiyah activities, and that doing so would be a direct violation of the constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of worship.
Categories: Ahmadiyyat: True Islam, Asia, Indonesia
And the government looks on … doing nothing … as usual …
Mullaha all over in Islamic countries are fond of taking law in their hands. Secular governments give utmost importance to the fact that state does not interfere in religious matters of its citizens. Where Indonesia is heading? Learn lessons from Pakistan and do not invite wrath of Almighty by committing attrocities against innocent people.
Government of Indonesia must fulfil it’s responsibility to protect innocent people of the country. There is no force can be used on other people in practising ones faith. In Quraan also Allah says “Lakum Deenakum Walayadeen”.