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Muslims only: Exclusive Islamic housing comes with loss of tolerance
Rules that ordered women to wear head scarves, created a “music free zone” and required Muslim men to pray at the mosque were deemed coercive by some.
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In the country that has the world’s largest Muslim population, meeting other Muslims in any neighborhood should be easy. (Shutterstock/SantiPhotoSS)
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n the country that has the world’s largest Muslim population, meeting other Muslims in any neighborhood should be easy. However, some people would still prefer to live inside a strictly Muslim housing complex.
Yuyun Kafka, a resident in Kampung Islami Thoyibah, Cikarang, West Java, stated that she moved to the Islamic housing complex because she wanted a good neighborhood for her children to live in.
“I want my children to have good role models,” she told The Jakarta Post. “We do not allow people to smoke in the neighborhood.”
Smoking is not the only thing that is not allowed in the typical-looking lower-middle-class residential area.
One week ago, the tranquil, secluded and homogeneous neighborhood came under scrutiny for its contentious neighborhood rules.
Pictures of a banner from Kampung Islami Thoyibah circulated in recent Twitter discussions. The banner, which was taken down on Sunday, proclaimed several rules people must adhere to when entering the neighborhood.
Rules that ordered women to wear head scarves, created a “music free zone” and required Muslim men to pray at the mosque were deemed coercive by some.
