IT is difficult to refrain from saying that the 33-year-old Indonesian Ulamas Council (MUI) has ‘betrayed’ its own credo. Its objective of being an organization that manifests goodwill to attain “unity among Muslims” is becoming far from reality. The MUI does not look as if it is representing the plurality of the Faithful.

The MUI gives the impression of being excessively rigid over the Ahmadiyah issue. Although the Jamaah Ahmadiyah has