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Rights group Amnesty International demanded on Wednesday that Indonesian authorities drop blasphemy charges against Tajul Muluk, a local Shiite leader displaced from his village in East Java’s Madura Island, who is currently under police detention.Tajul was displaced with over 300 other Shiite villagers on Dec. 29, when an anti-Shiite mob of some 500 people attacked and burned houses, a boarding school and a Shiite place of worship in Nangkrenang village in Sampang, Madura.Afterwards most of the Shiite who were displaced by the attack returned to Nangkrenang, but Tajul and about 20 other villagers, including his family, were prevented from returning to the village by the attackers, who reportedly threatened to kill them if they returned, and by police.On Jan. 1, the Sampang branch of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) issued an edict describing Tajul’s teachings as “deviant,” and then two days later his own relative, Rois Al Hukuma, reported him to police for blasphemy.On March 16, the East Java Police charged Tajul with blasphemy, saying he violated Article 156 of the Criminal Code on blasphemy and Article 335 on “offensive actions.”
Step down Mr. and Mrs. Politically Correct.It's so easy to be "punk" and "aware" living at home.You can't change shit, you're too self-righteous;you're the bigots you flaunt to loathe.
Different Muslim sects treat each other like...well, members of different Christian sects. The divide between the Sunni and Shia is similar in content to the divide between Catholics and Protestants. Which I guess would make the Ahmadis kind of like the Jehovah's Witnesses or something.
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Quote from: Fpqxz on April 25, 2012, 02:36:29 pmDifferent Muslim sects treat each other like...well, members of different Christian sects. The divide between the Sunni and Shia is similar in content to the divide between Catholics and Protestants. Which I guess would make the Ahmadis kind of like the Jehovah's Witnesses or something.I'd say closer to the Mormons than the JWs with the whole extra prophet thing.
Quote from: starseeker on April 25, 2012, 03:32:13 pmQuote from: Fpqxz on April 25, 2012, 02:36:29 pmDifferent Muslim sects treat each other like...well, members of different Christian sects. The divide between the Sunni and Shia is similar in content to the divide between Catholics and Protestants. Which I guess would make the Ahmadis kind of like the Jehovah's Witnesses or something.I'd say closer to the Mormons than the JWs with the whole extra prophet thing.It seems to me that Islam is going through the same things that the Christian churches went through in the Middle Ages, so, that's why I think that the schisms between the two are very similar.Hmm, I never thought about it that way before, but I guess you're right. Parallel evolution, I suppose.
We're talking religion. This is what religions do.
I am not at all surprised by this. The two sects are very similar or equivalent to the schisms of Protestant vs Catholic. The hate between Shias and Sunnis si very strong, I can't remember the history behind it though.If I were to get back into Islam, I would like to study Sufism
