Vive Les Differences!

The move to win over hard-line Islamic groups could cool conflicts, but could also be a source of fresh ones.

January 23, 2001

Every week before Friday prayers at the Syuhada Mosque in Yogyakarta, a group of youths sporting pecis (traditional Javanese black caps) and turbans gathers at the side entrance of the mosque. Then they take a pile of Al-Ikhtilaf bulletins—about 50 copies—letting other bulletins published by Muhammadiyah remain on the floor near the main entrance. This is a kind of veiled restriction, as Al-Ikhtilaf is placed in the mosque's office, s

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