The Jakarta Post:
The world has seen the brutality of the Islamic State (IS) movement as a form of extremism. All is publicly shown and IS seems to have proudly released the videos of atrocities it committed. The question raised throughout the world remains the same: Do those acts have something to do with Islam?
For Indonesia, this issue really needs to be addressed as Indonesia constitutes the world’s biggest Muslim-majority country by population and in Southeast Asia, IS supporters and jihadist volunteers mostly come from Indonesia.
The recently concluded sixth Congress of Indonesian Muslims in Yogyakarta, organized by the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), did not deal with the issue.
Categories: Anti Islam act by Muslims, Arab World, Asia, Indonesia