Indonesia Is More Cruel To Own Sons

Rabi' al-Awwal 30, 1431 A.H, Wednesday March 17, 2010

The government always projects their own image as being a populist, that in tackling problems facing the nation they always give way to dialogues, not exhibiting sadism and violence… or so they claim. However, the truth of the matter is that the government are doing harm on the urgency of that dialogue itself.

This was expressed by the spokesman of Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI), Ismail Yusanto, concerning the shootings of the people suspected as “terrorists”.

"Why, when it comes to our own people, we are too sadistic? Whereas, they are no more than just suspects. They could have been captured alive actually. But, what happened was that they were shot again for making a bit of movement," Ismail said, in a conference with Hidayatullah.com, Monday (15/3).

It was, Ismail continued, a great tragedy for a nation called Indonesia which often carries the jargon of healthy dialogues.

“It made me see this nation as nation that never knows dialogues. I see it as more for the interests of the elites actually,” he explained.

Regarding the statement by certain personalities who considered the coming of Obama to Indonesia in the coming days as all right and said that there is no need of rejection and that Obama should still be received as a guest, in Ismail’s view, that is not a problem.

However, according to Ismail, the stance on rejecting the coming of Obama depends on from which angle one sees it.

“There are two kinds of guest,” Ismail said “i.e. a problematic guest and a good guest. In this case, Obama is classified as a problematic guest with the policy of his government which has wounded the Islamic ummah in various countries.”

“Depends on how we see Obama, how he is like in our eyes. We judge Obama as an invader and he has committed munkar, so we are rejecting him,” he said.

The argumentation by one of the public figures who quoted a hadith of the Prophet SAW which said that a kafir guest still has to be accepted, Ismail said that the hadith to be used should not be that one.

Also in the hadith of the Prophet SAW, Ismail explained, there is an injunction that when we see munkar we reject it with all the abilities that we have.

“This is the hadith that should be used. We reject Obama’s munkar,” he asserted.

Source: Theunjustmedia.
Link: http://theunjustmedia.com/Islamic%20Perspectives/March10/Indonesia%20Is%20More%20Cruel%20To%20Own%20Sons.htm.