Ahmadiyya members have been driven from their homes and even killed by mobs and had their places of worship destroyed. Many mainstream Muslims think Ahmadiyya followers are heretical as they recognize a prophet after Muhammad.
Source/Credit: The Wall Street Journal
By Ahmad Pathoni | July 16, 2012
JAKARTA—While the Islamic campaign that blocked Lady Gaga from coming to Jakarta grabbed global headlines in May, human-rights activists say a local court’s decision last week to lock up a Shiite Muslim leader for his minority beliefs are a more worrying example of the growing intolerance in the world’s biggest Muslim-majority nation.
A court on Madura Island sentenced Tajul Muluk, a local Shiite leader, to two years in prison Thursday for deviant teachings “causing public anxiety.”
“The defendant has been legally and convincingly proven guilty of blasphemy,” said presiding judge Purnomo Amin Tjahjo, according to the Associated Press. “His acts, in principle, have insulted Islam.”
During the trial, some witnesses testified that Mr. Muluk taught that the current Koran wasn’t an authentic text, and that Muslims should pray only three times a day instead of five, and that the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca wasn’t obligatory. [more ]
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