September 20, 2002
Indonesia vs Terorism
I interested to share and comment recently Suara Pembaruan reports about my lovely Indonesia vis a vis terrorism, in global perspective. Dealing with war with terrorism, i think we should be careful to put one things and others, in the mean not to offend others (especially the oppose statement). This is about the CIA report regarding the testimony of Omar Al Faruq, who once planned to murder President Megawati Soekarnoputri in mid-1999, when she was a presidential candidate.I agree with the Nahdlatul Ulama's chairman KH. Hasyim Muzadi that he confirmed to be careful with those report in concern that, if that is a secret report, why CIA published it on public papers. The second, according to Muzadi, Al Qaeda will too risky to have a network in Indonesia because the tradition and religion culture of Indonesian will possibly cirstalized to the militan and/or fundamentalists. Nahdlatul Ulama is the largest Islamic organization who famously known has openly thinking and more tolerant of estimately its 40 milion members.
Another testimony came from a young Islamic thinker cum open-religion activist Ulil Abshar-Abdalla, he said, "Those tendentious thinking even affected to recently global news whichever connecting any crime and terror with Islamic Terorism. It differs if the suspect was other religion, Buddhist, Hindi, or Christian." He gave an example in the case of Oklahoma bombing, there aren't even told as a 'Christian Terorism'. He added, "This bias even been much felt on global news".
Read more detail on the original report (Indonesian). Please note, we are respect and support war against terorism. But please don't uses any ways of blaming game.
Posted at September 20, 2002 11:38 PM | Indonesia
