Buzz Sociopolitics Malaysia: Solving the wrong precisely with proposal to convert Shiites

Solving the wrong precisely with proposal to convert Shiites

This is a standard case of what Mitroff as well as Silvers plead in their book Dirty Rotten Strategies: How We Trick Ourselves as well as Others into Solving a Wrong Problems Precisely. Unspunhas a some-more precise tag for this kind of thinking which is in my tag: shot-for brains.

The base causes of a persecution of a Shiites by a infancy Sunni Moslems in Indonesia is not since they reason a slightly different belief. What's really causing this wholesale as well as constant conflict upon a minority is intolerance, reluctant as well as bad military coercion as well as an deficiency of domestic to reason a military accountable for disaster to keep a assent (what happened to a military chief after he admitted to a disaster of intelligence in a final Shiite bashing? Nothing) will to get Indonesians to respect a law as well as one another.

Solve these problems as well as you would see a reduction of cases where Shiites have been persecuted, often brutally. Converting Shiites to Sunnis would be solving a wrong problems precisely as well as have it come behind to bit us in a rump. If there have been no shiites to collect upon a intolerance, bad coercion of laws as well as lack of domestic will give a event for alternative bullies in a Indonesian multitude to persecute others. Perhaps gays, lesbians, transponders, Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, a rich, Chinesewhichever organisation which forms a minority as well as therefore exposed to mob rule.

Shia acclimatisation is solution: Minister

Margareth S. Aritonang, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Headlines | Thu, September 06 2012, 11:08 AM

Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali says converting Shiite Muslims to a Sunni Islam followed by many Indonesians would be a many appropriate app! roach to forestall aroused outbreaks in between a sects in Sampang, East Java.

"The many appropriate solution for what has been starting upon in there is dialogue. Many things can occur after a dialogue. We had an knowledge where a Ahmadis [...] converted to mainstream Islam after dialogue," a apportion pronounced upon Wednesday upon a sidelines of a meeting with lawmakers upon House of Representatives' Commission VIII overseeing eremite affairs.

Suryadharma was referring to a internal eremite leader in Ciaruteun village in Bogor, West Java, who persuaded 15 members of a minority Muslim Ahmadiyah sect in March 2011 to modify to a form of Islam used by many Indonesian Muslims.

The apportion pronounced which in first theatre of a acclimatisation process, minority Shiites, their infancy Sunni neighbors as well as alternative stakeholders in Sampang could encounter for a dialogue.

He declined calls made by moderate Muslim groups to have a determination either Shia is heretical, claiming it was outward his subtract as minister.

"I'm in no in front of to have a decision. I can't ask a MUI [Indonesian Ulema Council] of Sampang to retract their eremite fatwa [edict] deeming Shia as heretical. As I have pronounced earlier, discourse will be a many appropriate way," Suryadharma said.

Contacted separately, Deputy Religious Affairs Minister Nasaruddin Umar concurred with Suryadharma which a method was thankful to educate subscribers of faiths deemed deviant by "mainstream" religions to modify to a teachings of a 6 religions recognized by a governments.

"We never condemned Shiite Islam as heretical or prohibited it from being used here since Saudi Arabia, for example, has never criminialized a supporters from starting to which country for a haj pilgrimage," Nasaruddin said.

"I think there have been around eleven different types of Shia Islam, as well as not all of them have been heretical. It is a strands which curve off from mainstream Islam which you have to u! nderstan ding with," a emissary apportion said, disappearing to blow up if a Sampang Shiites were outward mainstream Islam.

Sunni Muslims attacked a Shiite village in Sampang upon Aug. 26, forcing almost 300 people to seek retreat in a internal forest before they were given retreat in a tennis stadium.

The assault followed an conflict in December 2011, when a Shiite Muslim, Mochamad Kosim, 50, was hacked to death. Three alternative Shiites were harmed as well as 37 families mislaid their homes in a attack.

Suryadharma discharged speculation which a assault in Sampang resulted from a kin rivalry in between Shiite leader Tajul Muluk as well as his Sunni brother, Roisul Hukuma.

The apportion pronounced which a mother of a brothers, Umah, was severely harmed in a conflict as well as had asked which a supervision to immigrate a Shiites to forestall some-more attacks.

"She told me which when I went to visit her a day after a attack. However, it is up to a village either or not they want to leave a area. We will pierce them to somewhere safer if they have a decision. Nonetheless, they can stay in a area if they want to do so," he said.

East Java Governor Soekarwo formerly discharged schemes to immigrate Shiite residents, nonetheless little action has been taken by provincial officials to safeguard them.

Critics pronounced which Soekarwo's reluctance to take action to assist a Shiites was done to garner await from Sunni Muslims in a run up to a East Java gubernatorial election.

Suryadharma as well as Nasaruddin declined to comment upon potential connectors to gubernatorial politics.