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Issue of the day: Religious leaders condemn Paris attacks

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The Jakarta Post
Wed, November 18, 2015

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Issue of the day: Religious leaders condemn Paris attacks

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The country'€™s religious leaders have condemned a series of coordinated terrorist attacks that left more than 120 people dead in Paris on Friday.

Haedar Nashir, the chairman of the second-largest Islamic organization in Indonesia, Muhammadiyah, said that the attacks were '€œinexcusable'€ and that all religious groups must join hands to condemn them.

'€œNo form of violence can be tolerated. Allah'€™s message was extremely clear: Taking the life of one person is the same as taking the life of all of mankind.

Whoever saves one soul has saved all of mankind,'€ he said on Sunday.

Haedar, on behalf of Muhammadiyah, offered his condolences to the victims and their families. He also denied that the attacks, for which militant group Islamic State (IS) has claimed responsibility, were representative of Islam and its followers.

'€œI am not responsible for any groups behind this incident, especially those who claim to act in the name of Islam; they do not represent Islam. Islam does not teach violence or brutality,'€ he said, adding that he hoped no innocent Muslims would be attacked in the wake of the incident.


Your comments:

Burning down churches for not having a permit is roughly similar to a massacre. Both are forms of violence and brutality. It is just a matter of scale.

Devanagari


The Indonesian Constitution is based on a non-humanitarian view of faith. Many belief systems are arbitrarily regarded as being haram. Some of these include Judaism, Jainism, atheism and humanism.

That Pancasila refuses to acknowledge these people and their faiths shows that the philosophy is just a plastic sham, a partial constitution and one that is unworthy as an ideal for any country.

But what is much worse is that Pancasila reflects a deliberate watering-down of a previously proposed, more authoritarian constitution, written up by Muslims.

Mauricegold

Google '€œKoran'€ and '€œviolent text'€. It is astonishing the number of passages that are extremely violent. And many others, though not explicitly violent, incite hatred toward minorities.

The religious apologists say that these passages have been taken out of context. I say rubbish.

Masmon


The usual response is: we are so sorry but those people who did it don'€™t represent Islam because Islam is peace and love.

How many people have died or have been crippled this year already in the name of the religion.

How many heads have been severed, how many women sold into slavery, how many children killed together with their mothers and thrown into mass graves?

How many terrorists have blown themselves up, taking with them a fair number of victims?

How many children have been wired up with explosives and then remotely detonated?

Thank you for your condemnation for this particular act of terror.There have been hundreds of terror assaults this year in Africa, the Middle-East and Afghanistan.

Please speak up loudly and in public and condemn every single act of terror conducted by those who are Muslims by faith but don'€™t follow this pronounced path of peace and love.

That would make me believe that you really mean what you say. But this would almost certainly make you very tired after just one week.

After the Battle of Zallaqa in 1086, 24,000 corpses of defeated Castilian soldiers were beheaded.

Following the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, the army beheaded the Serbian king and many Christian prisoners.

Forces of the Ottoman Empire invaded and laid siege to the city of Otranto and its citadel. After capture, more than 800 of its inhabitants, who had refused to convert to Islam, were beheaded.

In 1526, 2,000 Hungarian prisoners of war were beheaded by the Ottoman army. In 1807, several hundred British prisoners of war who had been fighting in Egypt were decapitated.

Muhammad Ahmad declared himself Mahdi in 1880 and waged jihad against the Ottoman Empire and its British allies. He and his followers beheaded opponents, Christian and Muslim alike.

'€œIslam does not teach violence or brutality'€ (Haedar Nashir, chairman of Muhammadiyah, Nov. 16).

Yes. All those violent events of the past (that was when Islam was still '€œpure'€ and not influenced by the evil West) were conducted only by those who nefariously claimed to act in the name of Islam because they did not represent Islam.

Gordon Freeman

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