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[Encouraging Sign] -- World’s largest Muslim group urges dialogue with West
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The head of Indonesia’s largest Muslim organization urged religious leaders around the world to work together and prevent radicals from abusing faith for political purposes... The influential group, said to be the largest Islamic social organization in the world, runs numerous hospitals, schools and other institutions of higher learning in Indonesia. Next week, Nahdlatul Ulama is hosting a meeting of Islamic scholars and other religious figures from around the world to discuss relations between Islam and other religions. The three-day conference opens Monday in Jakarta. “Many factors within Islam misuse it for political purposes,” Muzadi told reporters. “This also happens in other religions in the world”...
All I can think of off the top of my head are the goofs in Northern Ireland. And, of course, the bloodthirsty Lutherans of Wisconsin...
Muzadi blamed the rise of militant Islam on foreign agitators and Indonesian religious students returning from studies in radical schools in Pakistan or the Arabian Peninsula.
This is a good sign. As I recall, a lot of Indonesia’s militant islamofascist woes began with "missionaries" sent to Aceh from Iran . . .
Muzadi seems to have worked out cause and effect pretty well.

Posted by: cingold 2004-02-21
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