They're issuing fatwas again!

"Execution fatwa on liberal Muslim scholar

Group of Indonesian clerics call for death sentence after 'blasphemous' newspaper article questioning Muslim practices

The clerics said Mr Ulil, who co-founded the Liberal Islam Network, deserved to die, because his article in Kompas offended Islam and Prophet Muhammad.
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In the article, Refreshing The Interpretation Of Islam, he argued that Muslim scholars must distinguish Islam as a religion that teaches universal values of justice and dignity from its Arabic cultural context.

'The practices of headscarves for women, chopping off hands, sporting beards for Muslim men, and stoning, for example, are Arabic culture and values, not necessarily Islamic as many scholars would argue,' he wrote late last month.

Mr Athian Ali, who heads the Forum of Ulamas and Umah, was quoted by Detik.com news portal as saying: 'We saw a strong indication that there is a network of conspiracy to undermine Islam through this article.

'And under the Islamic law, anyone who commits blasphemy must be executed.'

One of the contentious points in the article, he said, was one pertaining to the Islamic law or syariah.

Mr Ulil wrote: 'The effort to impose syariah, to me, is the manifestation of Muslims' helplessness in overcoming their mounting problems in a rational way.

'Muslims think all their problems would [Ed: sic] automatically disappear when the syariah, with its archaic and dogmatic interpretation, is implemented on earth.'

Several minority but vocal Muslim groups have been campaigning for the imposition of syariah as the only way to address moral degradation and social ills."

Perhaps the reason why Islam has fallen into the state that it is in today is that voices of dissent, rationality and moderation are repeatedly silenced. For the life of me, I cannot see how the ideas related above are offensive to Islam. And the point on syariah is spot on :)


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I think all web1000 sites are blacklisted by Google, probably because web1000 allows adult content. Maybe it's time to move again.