Cleric arrested for blasphemy after allowing women to preach in world's largest Muslim-majority country | CNN
Cleric arrested for blasphemy after allowing women to preach in world's largest Muslim-majority country | CNN
A Muslim cleric has been arrested on charges of blasphemy and hate speech in Indonesia after his decision to allow women to preach and pray beside men sparked a backlash in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation.
A Muslim cleric has been arrested on charges of blasphemy and hate speech in Indonesia after his decision to allow women to preach and pray beside men sparked a backlash in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation.
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I will take blasphemy, it's terrible but at least I can see it...
...allowing women to preach is hate speech though? Not the other way around??
'Hate speech' is entirely defined by the government's opinion on issues.
I did not know this, Indonesia is the world's largest muslim majority country? Time for another deep dive.
You want a real bad one? Read into what Indonesia is doing (with tacit support and direct arming from the west) to the Papuans
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Looks like the papuans are fighting against the corrupt gov, but it says the US aided Indonesia until '92?
I don't know anything about this conflict, thanks
Yes, Indonesia has been the world's largest muslim country for well over a decade.
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Thank you, Sporcle
Excellent documentary about the legacy of violence in Indonesia https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2375605/?ref_=ext_shr
Oh I watched that, that's actually the first time I learned anything about indonesia, that there was a coup by gangsters. What a startling and troubling doc. And that crazy scene at the end where one of the guys starts to crack while they're making a doc of their crimes? Yeawow.
It’s got a fascinating history, over 300 million Muslims and also home to over 300 religions. They have a long history of coexistence.
Islam spread to indonesia by trade and missionaries. They outnumber Arabs but still many people falsely assume all Muslims are Arab.
Muhammad forbid that women gain equal standing with men in the Muslim world...Christ forbid that women gain equal standing in the Christian world....Yeshua forbid that women gain equal standing in the Jewish world...
I'm sensing a pattern here...
My knowledge on the bible is not too detailed, but could I ask, where Christ forbade the equal standing of women? If I remember right he said to the women they are not less than men, and even let them travel with him. I could be wrong tho.
Hey pal, you get paid to say all these stupid shit or you do it for free
Does your penis feel threatened? Should go ask a female Roman Catholic priest what to do about it.
Ah yes, the famous, not here to preach the love and care for each other god taught us but the rules of humans
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Islam is evil.
This is a comment about the philosophy. This is not about the human followers, hence neither hate speech nor bigotry.
Curious whether this survives.
Almost all religion is evil. Some are worse than others.
Indonesia committed one of the largest ever genocides of communists in 1965. It is a fucked up country.
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Seems many people are misunderstanding the issue and bashing the religion. Islam allows women to be imams (leaders of congregations and prayers) but like conservative Judaism they can only lead groups of women in prayer. Mixed prayers of men and women are led by men.
Women aren't allowed to lead men in prayer but men are allowed to lead women in prayer. I love how male Muslim apologists use their own lack of personal responsibility to justify the systematic disenfranchisement of women the same way Roman Catholics and Orthodox Jews do. It's almost like messianic received religion is the core issue and less religious societies have less sexual and physical violence towards women.