Tag: Indonesia
Aceh’s morality police on the prowl for violators
John M. Glionna November 7, 2009.
Print: Los Angeles Times
The only Indonesian province with Sharia, or Islamic law, has a 1,500-member force whose job is to go after women not properly covered and couples engaging in public displays of affection.
For Radical Islam, the End Begins
by Joshua Muravchik June 28, 2009.
Print: The Washington Post
Much as the hammers that leveled the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the end of the Cold War, so might the protests rocking Iran signal the death of radical Islam and the challenges it poses to the West. Just as with the evangelicals and the Republican Party, the integration of politics and religious dogma cannot hold.
Indonesians ignore religious edicts against smoking, yoga
February 5, 2009.
La Times
Although Indonesia is an overwhelmingly Muslim country, many view Islamic clerics’ fatwas as anachronistic and unnecessary. br/br/ Indonesia’s most powerful Islamic scholars weren’t looking for a debate when they handed down their latest fatwas on how to be a good Muslim.
