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Islamic Conference Pushing For Religious Rule in Bekasi
Ulma Haryanto | June 21, 2010

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TGIF
8:33am Jun 22, 2010

One does not be religious to be kind, to care, to be humble, to be a good person in general...One may be born spiritually with such attributes. Unfortunately hate, violence, and intolerance are earned through radical religious association that Indonesia is seeing on their soil. Something can be said that demons have infiltrated the minds of the radicals.

Radical Islamic thugs believe that committing violence, hate toward another religion or a person is not a sin...because as long as radicals are expressing their superiority and ego in the name of Allah and Islam. WOW, this is beyond belief !!!

I don't understand why the police and the government are afraid of saying enough is enough...to the radicals. It is such a shame for a country which strongly believes in unity in diversity.


padt
7:09am Jun 22, 2010

Aretemus Jones, thank you for your comments but you miss my point. I am well aware as you say, that the Trinity is disputed in Islam because it seems to Muslims to deny the Onesness of God. That was not the point I was making.

The point I was making is that some Muslims seem to think that whatever this doctrine suggests, the Trinity is formed by God, Mary and Jesus - something which Christianity has never taught. Therefore some Muslims are attacking a doctrine which no Christian has ever taught. That was my point.

Its a bit like having a white shirt and someone comes along and tells you they don't like the black shirt you are wearing. "But my shirt is white." And they reply, "It is black if we tell you it is black."

That attitude constitutes a difficulty when trying to dialogue with Islam.

Valkyrie
5:56am Jun 22, 2010

They are sowing seeds of hatred and forgetting that what they sow they will reap. I have an ugly feeling that one of these days something very drastic will happen whilst Mr. P composes tunes and Bekasi is burning.

Mr. P, "Seal up your lips and give no words but mum." - Shakespeare

Artemus Jones
1:29am Jun 22, 2010

Bramantyo Prijosusilo actually wrote a good piece about this issue in Monday's paper. Was very well put.

Padt, the Holy Trinity is disputed in Islam because the oneness of God is a central tenet. In fact, it's the first pillar of Islam. For Muslims, Jesus is not divine and God and the Holy Spirit are one. This unitarian approach is similar in Judaism and even among certain Christian groups.

Anybody who thinks Mary, who is also revered in Islam, is a part of the Christian Trinity is an idiot and needs to be put straight. Feel free to do so.

aditya_pratama
11:57pm Jun 21, 2010

Reading this articles makes me shiver. Worrying, absolutely worrying. Is this the general direction that Indonesia is taking? Because it will not lead to anything good.

Phenomenon of Christianization? Oh please...!! It is clear that Wahhabi-ism is the one that is gaining momentum here, as very evidently shown by the rise of this bunch of dangerous retards who calls themselves religious.

In a sign of increasing religious tension in Bekasi, members of hard-line groups gathered on Sunday to discuss a coordinated response to bring the city neighboring Jakarta more in line with Islamic principles.

The meeting on Sunday of the Islamic Congress of Bekasi came after video circulated on the Internet showing a high school student in the city defacing the Koran, and after a Web site bearing the name of a local Catholic school displayed pictures and writings seen as disrespectful to Islam.

It also follows the removal of a controversial statue of three women at a Bekasi housing complex.

Abdul Qodir Aka, a local official with the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), told the Jakarta Globe that the congress’s objective was to “create recommendations for the Bekasi administration on what steps it should take in the wake of recent incidents of defamation” of Islam.

Abdul Qodir was referring to Abraham Felix, a 16-year-old student of SMA 5 high school in Bekasi. Pictures of Abraham stomping on a Koran, the Islamic holy book, and one of him allegedly putting it in a toilet were posted on a blog, enraging the local Islamic community.

Police arrested Abraham in May on suspicion of creating the blog. He was charged with Article 156 of the Criminal Code for religious blasphemy.

That same month, the St. Bellarminus Catholic school in Bekasi was attacked by a group of people over another blog post, suspected to be Abraham’s work, which displayed the school’s name and posted pictures and writings that defamed Islam.

Abdul Qodir said on Sunday that the Islamic Congress was supported by the Bekasi administration, and was the culmination of talks between members of the local FPI chapter and Mayor Mochtar Mohamad.

“We also demanded the removal of the “Tiga Mojang” [“Three Girls”] statue. It is known as the Three Flashy Ladies, according to an Islamic boarding school in Bekasi,” Abdul Qodir said.

The statue in the Harapan Indah residential complex was taken down on at 12 a.m. on Saturday by the Bekasi administration, following pressure from the FPI, which deemed the statue, which some called “pornographic,” at odds with conservative Muslims’ views.

The Islamic Congress of Bekasi is scheduled to continue on June 27 at the Al-Azhar mosque in Kalimalang.

“We have more than 200 people attending from various Islamic organizations, educational institutions, Islamic study groups, women’s groups and mosque representatives from Bekasi, so this is not an FPI congress, even though [FPI leader] Habib Rizieq Shihab delivered our keynote speech this morning,” Abdul said.

“According to Habib Rizieq, the phenomenon of ‘Christianization’ is happening not just in Bekasi but all over Indonesia.”

Also on Sunday, the congregation of the HKBP Filadelfia Protestant church in Bekasi, which has been holding services on the roadside after the city prohibited the church from holding religious activities, faced angry demonstrators demanding they pray elsewhere.

“Around 6:30 a.m., there was an announcement at the mosque next to our church calling people to demonstrate. Half an hour later around 200 people crowded in front of our church with drums, shouting statements about jihad,” said the Rev. Palti Panjaitan, leader of HKBP Filadelfia. He called the police, who drove the protestors away at around 8:30 a.m.

“When the protesters saw some members of the congregation they hurled terrorizing statements. A lot of my members cried and immediately went home, refusing to come back to church. The protesters called us names, calling us haram [forbidden by Islam], and threatened to kill us,” he said.