Indonesian Islamic authority under fire over edicts against 'liberalism'

[deadparrot]

JAKARTA (AFP) - The highest Islamic authority in Indonesia has been criticised by the world's largest Muslim organisation over its controversial edicts against "liberal Islamic thought," a report says.

The Indonesian Ulema Council last week issued 11 edicts to fight "deviance and secularism" in the world's largest Muslim-populated nation.

One of them stated that Islamic interpretations based on liberalism, secularism and pluralism "contradict Islamic teachings".

It also reavowed a 25-year-old ban on mixed-faith marriages as being "haram" or forbidden under Islamic law and banned interfaith prayers.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050806/wl_afp/indonesiareligionislam

[allemand]

1. Religious fascism on the march.

But at least moderate Muslims and organizations like NU (Nahdlatul Ulama) are speaking out against it.

[Itchinjim]

2. The common enemy of religious fanatics everywhere;

Liberalism.

[Mountainman]

3. I can see future headlines now, American Christian authority under fire

over edicts against 'liberalism'