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Letter: Attack on Ahmadis

Can you imagine how devoted and even moderate Muslims around the world would react, if Jews, somewhere, attack without real reason two Muslim mosques and kill 70 innocent people? Where are all these politically aware and sophisticated intellectual Muslims who hurry to blame Israel, Zionism and Jewish imperialism for any problem around the world? They are now silent like a fish with innocent eyes and have nothing to say when the killers are Muslims

The Jakarta Post
Wed, June 9, 2010

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Letter: Attack on Ahmadis

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an you imagine how devoted and even moderate Muslims around the world would react, if Jews, somewhere, attack without real reason two Muslim mosques and kill 70 innocent people?

Where are all these politically aware and sophisticated intellectual Muslims who hurry to blame Israel, Zionism and Jewish imperialism for any problem around the world? They are now silent like a fish with innocent eyes and have nothing to say when the killers are Muslims. Why? Hypocrisy is the name of the game. Nothing is new in the realm of religion. Hypocrisy is always a common practice by religious leaders and activists of most "pious" religions.

Second issue for thought: The mosques in this case belong to the Ahmadis, a sect discriminated by the Indonesian government and law too. They are living in fear in Indonesia and almost (if not) everyone who attack them are given impunity. I wonder how long should we have to wait until this kind of attack against the Ahmadis in Indonesia will stop. No one should be surprised then.

Ronen
Medan

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