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FPI wants Megawati questioned for allegedly 'insulting Islam'
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Hundreds of Islam Defenders Front (FPI) members stage a rally in front of the National Police headquarters in South Jakarta on Jan. 16.
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slam Defenders Front (FPI) leader Rizieq Shihab has called on the National Police to question ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) chairwoman Megawati Soekarnoputri for making a comment to the group during an event last week in which he considers blasphemous toward Islam.
Rizieq said the FPI had a CD it could present as evidence of Megawati’s alleged blasphemous speech. He did not elaborate further.
“We will bring a CD of Megawati’s speech in which she has insulted Islam and rukun Islam [the five pillars of Islam],” Rizieq said during a rally in front of the National Police headquarters in South Jakarta, on Monday.
(Read also: FPI protests ‘unfairness’ by West Java Police chief)
Hundreds of FPI members attended the rally, where they demanded the dismissal of West Java Police chief Insp. Gen. Anton Charliyan for his alleged unfairness in handling a conflict between FPI and mass organization Gerakan Masyarakat Bawah Indonesia (Indonesian Grassroots Society Movement, or GMBI).
Rizieq previously shed light on the alleged blasphemy issue when he met House of Representatives Deputy Speaker Fadli Zon prior to the former’s questioning for allegedly insulting the Pancasila (state ideology) at the West Java Police headquarters last week.
Rizieq claimed Megawati made the alleged blasphemous statements when she addressed her party’s 44th anniversary last Tuesday. In her speech, Rizieq said, Megawati lambasted groups she labeled as “anti-diversity”. She later called the groups as having a “closed-ideology” that had caused religious and ethnic-based conflicts in the country.
In her speech, Megawati also accused members of several groups, she labeled as “intolerant”, of committing a “self-fulfilling prophecy”. (ebf)
