An Exercise in Damage Limitation
The Justice & Prosperity Party proposed the issuance of an edict (fatwa): non-voters in the elections should be forbidden by Islam to prevent disappointed cadres from leaving the party. The advertisement mentioning Suharto is the culprit.
January 6, 2009
IT was around 7am when some 500 members of the Islamic congregation crowded the yard of Al-Hikmah Mosque, Mampang Prapatan, South Jakarta on Sunday last week. This mosque is the center of propagation of the tarbiyah movement, the origin of the Justice & Prosperity Party (PKS). A number of ikhwan (male congregation members) and akhwat (female) are associated in the Forum of the Cadres that Care. On a third Sunday every month, Qur’an recital is h
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