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I did some research on the whole "Sharia law in Indonesia" thing, and fortunately I found that the Sharia law is limited to one backwards province in the north, Aceh. This province has about 2% of Indonesia's population and has long been an outcast, even having a violent separatist movement in 2003-2004 that was ended by the tsunami. So it seems like the Indonesian version of Chechnya. The rest of Indonesia does not have Sharia law, only that one province
On the other hand I think what is happening in Mindanao is disgusting. These guys are proper *******s and ****tards, there is no limit to the stupidity of what is going on there now. There needs to be some reform in Islam for situations like these when people feel the need to act like a bunch of 11th century ****s
I did some research on the whole "Sharia law in Indonesia" thing, and fortunately I found that the Sharia law is limited to one backwards province in the north, Aceh. This province has about 2% of Indonesia's population and has long been an outcast, even having a violent separatist movement in 2003-2004 that was ended by the tsunami. So it seems like the Indonesian version of Chechnya. The rest of Indonesia does not have Sharia law, only that one province
On the other hand I think what is happening in Mindanao is disgusting. These guys are proper *******s and ****tards, there is no limit to the stupidity of what is going on there now. There needs to be some reform in Islam for situations like these when people feel the need to act like a bunch of 11th century ****s
Although the rest of Indonesia is less backward, opinion polls have suggested widespread support for the idea of allowing Sharia Law to be practiced across the whole country.
Although the rest of Indonesia is less backward, opinion polls have suggested widespread support for the idea of allowing Sharia Law to be practiced across the whole country.
Obama blames the Saudis
Obama described how he has watched Indonesia gradually move from a relaxed, syncretistic Islam to a more fundamentalist, unforgiving interpretation; large numbers of Indonesian women, he observed, have now adopted the hijab, the Muslim head covering.
Why, Turnbull asked, was this happening?
Because, Obama answered, the Saudis and other Gulf Arabs have funneled money, and large numbers of imams and teachers, into the country. In the 1990s, the Saudis heavily funded Wahhabist madrassas, seminaries that teach the fundamentalist version of Islam favored by the Saudi ruling family, Obama told Turnbull. Today, Islam in Indonesia is much more Arab in orientation than it was when he lived there, he said.
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