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Issue: Ahmadis should live on isolated island
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eb. 17, Online
A legislator has said Ahmadiyah sect members should be relocated to an uninhabited island to prevent conflicts between them and those who deem the sect heretic.
“Indonesia has 17,000 islands, many of which are uninhabited. So why not move them to an island that is not inhabited,” HM Busro from the House of Representatives’ Commission VIII said Thursday as quoted by tribunnews.com.
He said during a meeting with Jamaah Ahmadiyah that segregation was needed because conflicts occurred because the Ahmadis lived among other communities.
Your comments:
I am a Muslim living in America where almost 500 million are Christians. There is no problem here.
People do their own businesses. Nobody tells you to go away. Nobody hurts you. You call the police if someone hurts you. Our police are good, there is no corruption and we have a strong law in Canada. So this is what you call freedom.
What does freedom mean in Indonesia, if people cannot express their own religions? This legislator guy should go to the arctic and live there. I’m really mad, not just about the FPI, but about people who make onar-anir to innocent people.
Muslim
Canada
The Indonesian legislator is either naive or just plain stupid.
So, I can say that Israel is only for the Jews so he can take his Muslims Palestinians to another planet. Problem solved.
Aron Shamoun
Tel Aviv
The better idea is to move all FPI members to an uninhabited island and send Busro there as well.
W.J. Gomm
Denpasar
His comments show that he is unfit for his position.
Gandalf
Jakarta
This legislator should be educated on how to discuss a problem and come up with a solution. How the hell did they get positions in the House? Send them to a remote island and there will be less conflict (of interest).
Siry
The UK
This inane suggestion to deport the Ahmadis to a deserted island is both naive and fanciful. This is nothing more than enforced incarceration, instead of protecting these people and their constitutional rights, just ship them off to a desert island and hope the problem goes away.
If this is the way the political powers of Indonesia believe that they can solve this matter, Indonesia is in deep trouble. The government and the police have continually abrogated their duty and responsibility to all citizens of the republic.
Until the guilty are genuinely prosecuted with the full strength of the laws of Indonesia, this fledgling democratic republic is made weaker every day through the inaction of those with the authority and power to take appropriate action.
Diggas
Pekalongan
I think it would be much better if all legislators, along with the police and the FPI, were to live on an isolated island. Preferably one that is tidal, very small, and in shark infested waters.
Didi
Bandung
