Muslim Nation vs Jihad: Indonesia’s syncretic Islam is under threat

Muslim Nation vs Jihad: Indonesia’s syncretic Islam is under threat

from those who would convert it into the austere Saudi version

by Manoj Joshi

Indonesia’s mainstream Muslim organisations like the Nahdatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah publicly declared that there should be no sympathy for the executed bombers. They called on the media to desist from glorifying them and said that they should be branded as terrorists and not martyrs or mujahids. They said that glorification of such murderers would only inspire other Muslims to follow their “unIslamic” ways and they called on Muslims to note that violence carried out in the name of religion would not give them a “ticket to heaven.” Indeed, they said that such actions had actually earned Islam a bad name.

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