Rising Radicalism
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Radical groups declared its opposition to the traditional wayang kulit puppet shows and condemned the Amitabha statue. This forcing of views on others must be stopped.
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IT would not seem excessive if some people compare us with a nation under the control of the Taliban. After they won the war in Afghanistan less than a decade ago, massive historical statues of Buddha at Bamyan were destroyed by them. At the time, we shook our heads in disapproval, but we never thought that such a negative influence would ever reach Indonesia.
Yet, looking at recent actions carried out in the name of religion, that have become i
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