Your comments on security authorities who have blamed the recent Jakarta bomb and gun attack on the Islamic State (IS) movement:

We need to understand why we were attacked. Indonesia has the world'€™s biggest Muslim population, which is not an ally of the US and its allies, nor a member of NATO and friends.

We are still completely supporting the Palestinian independence struggle, we built schools, we built a new hospital in Gaza, we are consistent in not recognizing Israel until the Palestinian people have achieved a sovereign state in their own homeland.

My country did not join a military alliance with Saudi Arabian hordes for the interests of Saudi Arabia itself, and now Indonesia is under attack. I still wonder why!  

If you, terrorists, are real Muslims, we Indonesian Muslims are not your enemy! Our government will never limit our creed and worship, they even help us with haj, adding more flights between Indonesia and Saudi Arabia from cities across Indonesia. Our country is not your battlefield! Our country is a heaven in the Muslim world!

How dare you call yourself Muslim, and kill people you don'€˜t like with the name of our God and our Prophet Muhammad, indiscriminately whether those people are even your Muslim brothers or not.

You kill people by killing yourself with a bomb on your chest, and then you claim that you will go to heaven. You are doing irreparable damage to the name of Islam.

There will come a time when your true identity is revealed. You are just a disgusting political group stealing the name of Islam for your own interests.

The time is coming when everything that is covered will be revealed! Islam does not teach violence!

Anak Rantau

I'€˜ve been thinking about this today and my own  thoughts as to why someone would want to blow themselves up. What I see is the indoctrination from a young age of the ideology and the firm belief in the afterlife and that God will protect you from harm.

All these promises of rivers of wine, 72 virgins, paradise and wealth beyond imagination have to be a reason for someone to want to blow themselves up.

Why else would you want to leave this world and your family behind? Put simply, it is brainwashing from a young age.

LAF

Intolerance is just one of our own creations as human beings that we do not take ownership of.

The human mind is intolerant naturally and religions create dangerous and divisive ideology that justify this intolerance by aiding its core with the God factor.

Tolerance is not something we can retrain or reprogram our minds with. Being intolerant has everything to do with how one feels. When fed correctly we have no intention of departing from that comfort zone.

Intolerance is where IS is comfortably resting. We use religion and God for our own desires and needs and in a way insult God if this thing really exists. We have made God act with human foolishness.

Shadaan
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