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Khairil Azhar, Jakarta | Opinion | Tue, December 24 2013, 10:46 AM
Looking at the recent accounts, the threat of religious conflict in pluralistic Indonesia seems well-suited to continue. It seems every December in new memory there has been religious disagreement that disturbs our year-end.
Last year, Muslims were told ~ means of Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) leaders to not speak “Merry Christmas” to their Christian friends or neighbors. Instead of coming up with fresh arguments based on the Koran or hadith (accounts of the Prophet), the clerics mistakenly invoked impaired out arguments.
This December, the MUI before-mentioned both medicines and vaccines must attain halal certification. Deputy chairman of the diet Ma’ruf Amin said that Muslims had to regard pharmaceutical products in the same manner with they did food and drink (The Jakarta Post, Dec. 12).
This December, in the mosques or other places of venerate , hate speech has already begun. At schools where Muslim students are studying religion, we desire see and hear the teachers urging them to consciously differentiate themselves from their fellows who comprise different religions, to be extremely heedful of anything that will make them set at nought their aqida or theology as Muslims.
Substantially, in the protect of the MUI prohibiting the phthisis of haram pharmaceutical products, there strength not be any problems, because it’s artless for the body to advocate religiously accepted edicts for Muslims. But with its political stand, as we be able to see in the effects of the edicts and statements it has made in new years, it will be always a unsafe knife with two sharp sides.
Despite core a non-governmental organization, its closeness with the state (and power) has given it sudden dominance that often undermines the common good.
It has so far been an effective channel for the dissemination of Islamic radicalism through all of its destructive consequences.
Superficially, by consequence, the advocacy of halal...п»ї
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