Dr. Thoralf Hanstein:"Take the Islamic law existing in Indonesia"
November 30, 2004
A REVIEW of Islamic law has been a source of intense debate since early October. Siti Musdah Mulia and her gender affirmative-action team in the Religious Affairs Department, who initiated the counter-legal draft of the Compilation of Islamic Law, has been attacked by a group who considered the draft to deviate from the Islamic syariat. Attacks, for example, have come from the Indonesian Ulamas Council or MUI, and even from the outgoing Relig
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