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Text your say: Sharia for non-Muslims in Aceh
Your comments on the approval of the Qanun Jinayat (behavior-governing bylaw) that obliges Muslims and non-Muslims to adhere to sharia, the Islamic legal code, by the Aceh provincial administration and local legislative council:And in Christian-majority towns, Muslims should not be allowed to eat red meat on Fridays
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strong>Your comments on the approval of the Qanun Jinayat (behavior-governing bylaw) that obliges Muslims and non-Muslims to adhere to sharia, the Islamic legal code, by the Aceh provincial administration and local legislative council:
And in Christian-majority towns, Muslims should not be allowed to eat red meat on Fridays. It is not fair at all for nonMuslim. Makes them feel not part of their own country.
Shane
Semarang
Isn't forcing non-Muslims to follow sharia in Aceh breaking the national law and going against
Pancasila?
David
Jakarta
Sharia for non-Muslims in Aceh? This is like a bad dream. Wake up Indonesia before it is too late. Our beautiful country is being hijacked silently, little by little, by those misusing their authority to trample on individual human rights. Our elected national leaders are either sleeping at the wheel, or complicit by neglect.
Hing
Jakarta
This is tyranny; the oppression of Indonesians! If the central government does not take steps against it, it will have failed in its duty to protect the people.
Hadi
Surabaya
Aceh would make a fine little self-regulated, self-governed and, I'm sure, poor country on its own. All hard-core extremists could flock there and live under the rules that they love.
The rest of Indonesia can sigh with relief and get on with rebuilding the country.
Charles Jarret
There is no such demography and indicators that you mentioned. You seem lost and are living in the past. What is going to happen to your present?
Shaddan
When Aceh's local leaders get serious and wipe out the totally and unarguably haram stuff like the ganja trade and corruption, and stop worrying about the little stuff like women wearing trousers, they will be taken a lot more seriously in their efforts to uphold Islamic values.
Deedee S
Surely these rules are unconstitutional (apart from unethical). Frankly, this is just another means of grabbing power and property. Read the first of the articles.
The sharia authorities will have the power to arrest suspected violators, and confiscate and conduct raids on their property, based on preliminary evidence.
John Elliott
Aceh wanted to be a sovereign country. Indonesia agreed to sharia while all the sheep stood and watched. Aceh has its own flag but the Indonesian government said it couldn't.
Aceh is still planning on becoming a sovereign state without saying it out loud yet. The sheep are still just standing around with their eyes and ears closed.
There are forces in Indonesia and at top levels of the national government who would like to see sharia everywhere in the country.
The sheep will stand around until it's too late.
X Simaging
Secular society doesn't define any values. It's empty of values. So how do you prevent people's moral value system from entering public space? What are UN codes of freedom anyway?
That's just a manmade convention.
Look at the exploitation of women in Western style society (the porn industry, e.g.).
Look at the brutal capitalism in which the rich exploit the poor in a usury-based economy.
Tahu
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