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View all search resultsLetter: Attack against Ahmadiyah mosque
I was shocked to learn that the local government and police force in Kuningan, West Java, succumbed to the wishes of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) and repeatedly attempted to shut down a mosque of the Ahmadiyah Muslim community
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was shocked to learn that the local government and police force in Kuningan, West Java, succumbed to the wishes of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) and repeatedly attempted to shut down a mosque of the Ahmadiyah Muslim community.
Who has given the FPI the right to violate the Koranic injunction (2:257), “There is no compulsion in religion”.
Was it not Prophet Muhammad who said during his farewell address: “Your lives and your possessions have been made immune by God to attacks by one another until the Day of Judgment”. Even as the fingers of two hands are equal, so are human beings equal to one another. No one has any right, any superiority to claim over another. What I command you today is not meant only for today. It is meant for all times.
We urge the Indonesian government to step in and take immediate action to stop these illegal encroachments.
Hiba tur Rafiq
Stafford, Virginia
As an Indonesian, I am very proud of our country’s diversity and tolerance.
I have learned that our Constitution, UUD 1945, protects the freedom to worship. When I read the news this morning that the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) attempted to forcefully close a mosque of the Ahmadiyah Muslim Community, I became very disturbed.
The FPI has attacked the very definition of what it means to be an Indonesian citizen. The Indonesian government has to realize that the FPI is an extremist group that cannot accept diversity and tolerance of various faiths. Not very long ago, the same group threatened followers of Christianity simply because they were preaching to Muslims.
If the Indonesian government does not take firm action to stop this I am afraid Indonesia will enter into a violent and chaotic situation similar to those facing countries such as Pakistan and Afghanistan today.
Tahir Ahmad
Milpitas, California
