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The Muslim world, especially countries in the Gulf, are struggling to define the relationship between the state, religion and civil society. Since the Arab Spring movement swept across the Middle East, this has become the biggest issue for rulers in
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A survey released on Tuesday shows that Islamic political parties in Indonesia are losing popularity, attributing the decline to Indonesia's increasing draw toward
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The book 'Five Cities that Ruled the World,' written by US theologian Douglas Wilson, defames the Prophet Muhammad, the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) said on Monday. (JG screen grab) The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) reported publisher Gramedia Pustaka
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Despite generations as part of the religious fabric of the country, Muslims are considered foreigners in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, where tensions spilled into deadly violence this week. (AFP Photo) Yes Marko. Have you noticed how the JG are
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Just like Indonesia, until developing countries can escape from the medieval yoke of Islam, their people will be poor, their women will suffer and their governments will be corrupt. The enlightenment is the ONLY way out of the cycle of conflict,
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“The president, the vice president and the religious minister are Muslims, but we attend celebrations of Christmas and the Hindu, Buddhism and Confucianism

Which Islam? In Indonesia, FPI is Islam and only does violence threaten destroy burn damage kill.. forget Democracy or Liberty non-sence! Listen to the silence of the so-called moderate majority Indonesian Muslims.. For years, foreign policy
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A Buddhist nun practises Kung-fu at the Amitabha Drukpa Nunnery on the outskirts of Kathmandu. (AFP Photo/Prakash Mathema). It is a hot, cloudless morning on a hillside on the outskirts of Kathmandu and dozens of nuns arrange themselves into lines
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Recently we have witnessed more violence and intimidation under the guise of Islam. While attacks against Shia Muslims in East Java and Ahmadi Muslims in West Java continue, in the past few days, religious thugs attacked a neighborhood in Solo.
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Efforts by the government to insert itself more prominently into religious matters, coupled with its unclear stance on the role of religion in the state, will only exacerbate interreligious tensions in the country, leading rights activists warn.
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