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Indonesian Muslims In Dilemma Indonesian Muslims now have an unique problem. They have been faithfully praying in the wrong direction. Instead of facing Mecca, they are facing somewhere else. What happens now? Were their prayers heard by Allah? Do they need to knock down their mosques to build new ones with the correct alignment to Mecca? MUI’s Mistake Indonesian [...] Earlier this week, Indonesia’s second largest Muslim organization, Muhammadiyah, issued a fatwa against smoking and it immediately ran into a flak of criticisms and protests. Now Indonesia’s Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali has stepped into the fray, calling on Muhammadiyah not to cause “public restlessness” by acting “more wisely.” Interestingly, both the Nahdlatul Ulama (Indonesia’s largest Muslim [...] Muhammadiyah, Indonesia’s second-largest Muslim organization, probably expected opposition from smokers and tobacco-related businesses when it issued a fatwa against smoking recently. It compared smoking to suicide which is forbidden in Islam. But now controversy and opposition surround that fatwa. Opposition to the smoking fatwa came from Nahdlatul Ulama, Indonesia’s largest Muslim organization, and the Indonesian Council of Ulema (MUI). [...] Think of Valentine’s Day and inevitably we conjure up an image of lovers eating a romantic candle lit dinner and red roses galore. Valentine’s Day falls on February 14 each year. Although it probably had its origin in a Roman Catholic religious context, like Christmas it has become commercialized to such an extent that the origin [...] The High Court in Malaysia has just ruled that a government ban on the Roman Catholic’s publication, The Herald, for using the word “Allah” is unconstitutional. Judge Lau Bee Lan said the Home Minister’s decision to ban The Herald is illegal, null and void. In effect the judge agreed with Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur Murphy Pakiam, [...] Trust the Japanese to come up with the name “tsunami”. In Japanese, it means “harbor waves”. And that’s quite appropriate description indeed. Tsunami waves are caused by undersea tremblors or landslide. In the depths of the oceans, such tidal waves have relatively small wave heights. If you are sailing on the surface of the oceans you [...] It’s almost 2 months since Jakarta’s newest club – the Global Ikhlwan polygamy club was set up. Let’s revisit this polygamy club and see how they are doing. First, the club is said to have its origin in Malaysia, and it has 1,000 members worldwide – including in places like Australia and the US. Since the Jakarta [...] This story is not new, but since I am on a series about teenage Indonesian model Manohara Odelia Pinot who ran away from her Kelantan prince husband, Tengku Muhammad Fakhry Sultan Ismail Petra, I might as well blog on it. It seems that Daisy Fajarina, the mother of Manohara Odelia Pinot, had a brush with the [...] From January 2010, if you are a Muslim woman and you wear trousers (pants), you may want to be extra careful if you happen to be in West Aceh, Indonesia. District head Ramli Mansur has signed a bylaw that prohibits Muslim women in West Aceh from wearing certain kind of trousers. He said recently: “We have [...] A couple in Somalia chose the wrong place to commit the act of adultery. They did it in territory under the control of the al-Shabaab group, and worse, they left evidence of their act – the woman became pregnant. Now they are paying for it with their lives. Just recently, 33-year old Abas Hussein Abdirahman was stoned [...] |
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