I don’t know about blasphemy, but no one in Indonesia have insulted Islam, the Quran, and the Prophet, as much as the FPI, FBR, and their fellow Islamist-thugs.
Indonesia is on a collision course with modernity and a superior culture. Fist-pumping rhetoric is not called for. A mature consideration of fundamentals is.
Winston Churchill’s pithy summation of Islamic influence on cultures and peoples is being proven in contemporary Indonesian political life. What a blight.
Better keep silence than talk useless, silence is a GOLD. Do you agree:))
Islam is, what it does!!
Gus Dur is right because those people blaspheme him are devils by using Islam for violence and using the name of Islam for evil work!
Long life, Gus Dur, Long life Democracy of Indonesia ! He is an angel of Indonesia’s Democracy.
Gus Dur had hurt the feelings of good Muslims many times previously, and cited his membership of the Shimon Perez foundation as proof of this, considering that Perez was a Jew.
yeah, but no problem when the FPI proudly pronounce that Yapto is their champion, and he’s a jew…..
Sure, the Koran contains sexual issues, most holy books-the Torah,Bible, and Hindu religious books do too. If the world started jailing for “blasphemy” bestselling Western authors like Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens et al would find themselves in jai. “Monty Python Holy Grail” and ” Monty Python the Life of Brian” would be banned. Thank God for the West and Long Live the West!!!
I just recently read the news today that gus dur wanted to nominated himself in the 2009 presidential election and I’ve been looking for a forum that talked about it and apparently I came to this forum. I don’t know whether I should be surprised or acted as it his natural behavior to say such a blunt statement about koran, he should know in the first place that indonesian gets really sensitive when anybody tries to talk sh*t about islam.
He should have known better not to talk some insensitive matters, and now that I read the article about him being disappointed that he got rejected for the nomination proposal by KPU, it just getting worse. wth? He ordered his supporters to do some anarchy acts by attacking KPU meeting whatsoever??!!! I don’t think he is eligible to be nominated in 2009 election, are you sure you wanted this kind of man to be your president for the SECOND TIME??
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