| The War within Islam | |
| 12 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| Saudi Beheading Fuels Backlash in Indonesia | |
By Andrew Higgins
August 9, 2011
JAKARTA, Indonesia — As leader of Indonesia’s — and the world’s — largest Muslim organization, Said Aqil Siraj used to get pelted with angry e-mails and text messages whenever he questioned Saudi Arabia’s rigid, ultra-puritanical take on Islam.
But the often menacing messages recently stopped — cut off by a single stroke from a Saudi executioner’s sword to the neck of an Indonesian maid in Mecca.
“Now I don’t get sent anything,” Siraj said. He is glad to be out of the firing line, at least for the moment, but is appalled that it took the beheading of a 54-year-old Indonesian grandmother to quiet abuse by supporters of Saudi-style Islam.
|
5:29 AM
Moderate Islamist here
0 comments:
Post a Comment