Syariah's OK, But Let's Wait Before Cutting off Hands

For a long time the claim has been made that Indonesian Islam is different to that of the Middle East. Indonesian Islam was seen as more `compromising', mixing in the beliefs and local culture that existed before the arrival of Islam, while the Islam of the Middle East was seen as more `pure'. The famous anthropologist Ernest Gellner described this difference by adopting the term `High Islam' for the Islam that was judged pure, and `Low Islam'

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