Emmanuel Christian shares his experience with the Islamic
concept of Walaa wal Baraa.
Just a small refresher: Walaa wal Baraa = Islamic
Apartheid. The essay is an intro to an Elsa Schieder newsletter which she
explains how this Islamic Apartheid works. My intro makes the effort to show
the Moderate Islamic thinking (or is propaganda thinking) as well as it used
often used brutally in this day and age.
Here is negative concept of Islamic Apartheid that is
essentially practiced in Muslim majority nations from my intro:
You can imagine that Islamic
Apartheid is the practice of Muslims relegating minority religions to
discriminatory second-class citizens which is a horrible life under Islamic
Supremacist Sharia Law.
I think that is enough info to feel the distress that Emmanuel
Christian (this might be a pseudonym) feels as a Christian living in
Muslim majority Indonesia.
JRH 7/8/17
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Comment to ‘Walaa wal Baraa & Kafir’
Emmanuel Christian
I live in Indonesia, and I
just found out about this phrase today.
So, in December 2016 a huge
mob of Muslims stopped a Christmas service in Bandung City, Indonesia. The local
police helped the mob in dispersing the Christians having Christmas service on
ground of “doing a religious activity on public space”. It was held in a
function hall of a public government university.
Several months later, Zakir
Naik came to Indonesia and preaches hatred, and promotes ignorance towards
people who are not Muslims in the same type of function hall in another public
government university, and the police stood guard to help Zakir.
Just today, daughter of
Indonesia’s 4th president, criticized the government officials (civil servant
and police force, etc.) for hindering people of minority religion of their
equal right and having freedom to perform religious duties.
you can see the news article
about it here ==> http://nasional.kompas.com/read/2017/07/04/09442431/yenny.wahid.pelanggaran.kemerdekaan.beragama.masih.terjadi
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And there you have it, on the
comments section, someone had commented that Yenny Wahid should have not
criticized the officials, because the officials are Muslims and the deed are
done to non-Muslims. The comment also quotes “al wala wal bara” in justifying
his thoughts.
So, hello truth. I was born
in Indonesia to a Christian family, and now I know so much more about what was
happening all around me. This walaa stuff is the cause of so much things that
happened to me and went unanswered and repressed.
***Blog Editor: The link
Emmanuel provide is in a language from Indonesia. Here is the Google
Translation into English.
By NABILLA TASHANDRA
July 4, 2017 0 9:44
WIB
JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Director of the Wahid Foundation, Yenny Wahid see violations
of religious freedom is still a lot happening. He also regretted how the
Government and officials also became actors in the practice.
The Wahid Institute survey in
2016 revealed that the Government and many apparatus became perpetrators of
freedom of religion.
At least, there have been 130
violations of the actor being part of the Government and the
authorities. While 74 violation events conducted by community
organizations.
"We still see the
majority of minority tyranny," Yenny said in a discussion of "One
Table" in Kompas TV entitled Fitrah, Tolerance and
Diversity, Monday (3/7/2017) night.
In the regions, he continued,
minority religious groups are often the victims of the majority clothe in the
region. For example, in areas in Java where Muslims are the majority,
non-Muslims are often victims of violations of religious freedom.
Another small example is the exclusion
of the right of a group of people who are considered to be perverted or
perverted.
"For example not given
ID cards, or other rights to build houses of worship," he said.
He sees, there is a wrong
concept related harmony. Such harmony often gives too much rights to
society.
"Instead of a conflict
in the area saying 'yes it's a minority problem', it's a sacrifice. This is a
misconception," he said.
According to him, the need to
grow an awareness in society that all citizens have the same rights in the eyes
of the law.
Such awareness, not
exceptions, must also be demonstrated by the Government and the apparatus who
are involved as actors of religious freedom violators.
That awareness is considered
not yet grown in the hearts of citizens who are still perpetrators of
violations of religious freedom.
"I think because these
actors have no awareness, the basic constitutional rights of the state that
every citizen should have in any background," Yenny said.
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PT. Kompas Cyber Media
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Emmanuel Christian’s
commented is edited by John R. Houk and spellcheck. I left the Google Translate
“Yenny Wahid: Violations of Religious Freedom Still Happen” as is.
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