Santri and the Threat of Religious Intolerance

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In general, the majority of Indonesia’s population is Muslim. The proliferation can see the indication of community organizations or mass organizations with Islam as the spirit of the movement. All of that cannot be separated from Islam as the majority.

However, in Indonesia also live other various religions. In the heterogeneity of religion, culture, and culture, Indonesia is the reason to be called a very diverse country. However, this reality often faces a problem, one of which is closely related to religion itself.

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This can be seen from the rise of right-wing Muslims, who mobilize the purification of Islamic teachings. Their beliefs are the most correct in every attitude and statement made to the public, even though very unconstitutional and seem textual in addressing religious issues. Nevertheless, the evidence is that the government disbanded right-wing Islamic movements, such as HTI, through Perppu Number 2 of 2017. They were deemed to have hit the bastion of the nation’s ideology, namely Pancasila.

The problem often brought up in religious matters is differences in religious views that lead to theological issues. It is the right of each as the people of Indonesia, as mandated by the 1945 Constitution in Article 28E paragraph 1 and as Allah SWT’s word in Surah Al-Baqarah verse 256. Differences are often the trigger for conflicts between religions and fellow Muslims themselves.

A humble example when the new year. Some Muslims forbid other Muslims to wish Christians a Merry Christmas because of different religions and beliefs. In fact, in Islam, we know that there are many results of ijtihad by scholars in the form of fatwas. However, the results are different from the ijtihad. Therefore, we should be more mature in religion to give rise to the embryo of intolerance -even to give rise to takfiri attitudes – just because of a lack of understanding of Islamic law.

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