Source/Credit: The Jakarta Pot | Comments/Letters
By Mirza Imran Ahsan | July 30, 2011
Re: Ahmadiyya attackers verdict and outrage shown by the honest moderate Muslims about the unfairness of the punishment.
I applaud Muhamadiyyah and human rights organisations of Indonesia for displaying the flickering conscience of the Indonesian people keeping the flame alight in the extremist storm.
I hope this attitude may prevail for the betterment of country.
Unfortunately the Indonesian government, prosecutors and the legal system all have buckled to the pressures of the extremists.
History tells us that governments' inaction on such extremists and savage trends and taking them lightly by keeping quiet always leads to bigger ground for anarchist extremists.
Pakistan is the great example in question. A country which was once the largest Muslim nation in the world (before 1971), it had extraordinary potentials and promises for the world at that time, slowly and gradually buckled to the Islamic extremism in 1970s and 1980s. The collapse is almost complete now. It is in a mess, a failed state indeed where government is unable to protect its minorities or even majorities, almost a lawless country with a failed economy creating large exodus of its educated youth.
I am afraid to say such decisions from Indonesians courts are in fact creating a bleak future for the Indonesia too, which was a beacon of light up till now for the Muslim world.
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