Religious Tolerance
Mar 17th, 2007, in News, by PatungEven during the Crusades Muslims had religious tolerance.
Former president Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur) says during the Third Crusade in the 12th century Muslims and Christians had no hate for each other even while they were fighting, as evidenced in the relationship between the two opposing commanders, Saladin (Salahuddin) and King Richard the Lionheart.
Speaking in Kediri to a gathering of the Partai Kebangkitan Bangsa (PKB) Abdurrahman Wahid said Saladin once offered medical treatment to the injured Richard, because at that time Muslims were much advanced in the ways of medicine.
Abdurrahman Wahid.
In the Ramla treaty of 1192, Wahid goes on, Muslim control of Jerusalem was formalised but Saladin agreed to allow Christian pilgrims to continue visiting the city.
Saladin was famous in Europe, and well respected, with much poetry and literature being written about him including Walter Scott’s The Talisman in 1825.
At that time in history Muslims were full of tolerance but these days they lack it, said Wahid. He condemned the existence of radical and fanatic groups in the country and said he couldn’t understand what they were afraid of. antara
36 Comments on “Religious Tolerance”
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Ihaknt says:
Cuki, thanks for your compliment. I guess in your case you need to compliment yourself. Also thank you for fixing my constipation problem and I managed to vomit successfully after reading yet another-uneducated post of yours. You go boy!
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Cukurungan says:
Ihaknt,
Don’t “sok gengsi” lah our relationship like you eat “cabe” almost every times you posted that my comments are “uneducated, stupid and nonsense” but every time you couldn’t resist to comment back on my post.
regard
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Hassan says:
Mohammed Khafi: “As soon as you implement Sharia, you are compelling people in their religious affairs, quite in contradiction to this verse from al Quran!”
Well Khafi, we must look at the context of the situation. Sharia gives guidance, a way of life, for Muslims both on a personal level as well as on communal and national matters. While I agree that there should be no compulsion on personal acts of worship and piety (we must not force people to pray, or fast in the month of Ramadhan for example) I can’t say the same should be applied on communal and national level.
Sharia is after all a law. Laws must have the power to compel people to conform to it’s stated regulations. Give me one law anywhere that does not force people to conform or face the consequences.
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Mohammed Khafi says:
Hassan, I agree that we have to have laws, but if you look at Sharia implemented anywhere, it does not repect peoples religious freedom, and it does not respect it’s source Al Quran, some examples are religious police in Saudi Arabia, dragging people from their homes to Friday Prayers, executions by stoning for women commiting Zina, and various other restrictions of peoples personal behaviour that are never mentioned in Al Quran.
Yes, we have to have law but Laws that were formulated in the Middle Ages, for peoples who were predominantly desert dwellers and which are not allowed to be questioned or reasoned over ?
Peace
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Dragonwall says:
So does that mean when it is implemented in Indonesia, the Indonesian ought to be treated like desert dwellers?
In another word someone is deliberately sending country into doom?
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Aluang,
Yes it is clearly stated in the Quran and I accepted it from God. “so what”. If you didn’t think so, tell me what is better than that. I am all ears if you can prove that there is a very good teaching that already proven make un-disputable harmony relationship in between “man and women”.
What is wrong with poligamy, it is much better than underground and illegal sex committed by your saints. Don’t tell me priests, popes and nuns are loved by God and donn’t require sex. You tell me how those holy humans discharge theirs sex desire.
Ihaknt,
When I read your post, I always smile because I imagined there is a beautiful girl but “galak” was so sickened with someone but she couldn’t do anything. But every day has to be fed up with a rubbish comments from “Handsome Gentleman” from the other side of the world.
Regards,
Handsome Gentleman