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There is no religious compulsion in Islam, or so they say, and yet people who do not conform to mainstream Islam are often jailed or forced to convert in Muslim-majority countries. Indonesia, as moderate as it would like to consider itself, still...
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The Quran is very specific with regards to the issue of forcing others to embrace Islam. It clearly states:
“Let there be no compulsion in religion. Truth has...
made popular Mar 18 2011
A hardline Muslim mob clashed with police and burned two churches in Indonesia Tuesday to protest what they considered a too-lenient sentence given a Christian for...
made popular Feb 9 2011
LANGSA, Indonesia — Six years after a powerful tsunami swept more than 200,000 to their death, Titik Yuniarti still clings to hope at least one of her children is...
made popular Dec 23 2010
One of Indonesia’s top celebrities has gone on trial for his alleged role in sex videos which appeared on the internet.
Pop star Nazril “Ariel” Irham...
made popular Nov 23 2010
President Obama looks a little akin to a ‘broken man’ in recent days. The restrained president inherited the worst slate one could ever get: an economy on...
made popular Nov 15 2010
DID GOD COME TO IIT CHENNAI?
1. It happened at the gift shop at IIT Chennai a couple of days ago. I was chatting with a friend when he met a lady with whom he started...
made popular Nov 12 2010
Europe’s aviation regulator said fire from an oil leak was the likely cause of last week’s engine failure of a Qantas A380 plane and ordered fresh...
made popular Nov 11 2010
Thick volcanic ash spewed by Mount Merapi has killed trees and created a virtual dead zone inside 20-kilometer danger zone surrounding the volcano.
made popular Nov 11 2010
By Neil Chatterjee
JAKARTA | Tue Nov 9, 2010 12:51am EST
JAKARTA (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama headed to Jakarta on Tuesday for a visit aimed at boosting...
made popular Nov 9 2010
Merapi is the youngest in a group of volcanoes in southern Java. It is situated at a subduction zone, where the Indo-Australian Plate is sliding beneath the Eurasian...
made popular Nov 9 2010
A Christian is someone who believes Jesus Christ was the Messiah, and regardless of what sect he/she happens to align himself with, whether Catholic, Protestant,...
made popular Oct 11 2010
Indonesia and Malaysia are supposed to be moderate Muslim nations but there are extremists in the midst that are doing everything in their power to make it impossible...
made popular Oct 1 2010
While the Muslim world cries out about alleged Islamophobia and an increased intolerance of all things Muslim by the Western world, they themselves are guilty of the...
made popular Oct 1 2010
An Indonesian police officer who quit the force to become a terrorist said on Thursday he was affiliated to Al-Qaeda and had trained about 170 militants to wage jihad,...
made popular Sep 23 2010
There’s something terribly obscene about watching a toddler, as young as two years old, smoking cigarettes. It’s even more obscene when they are shown...
made popular Sep 17 2010
You might not agree with the teachings of certain offshoots within your own religion, but that does not give you license to attack adherents of that particular sect....
made popular Aug 12 2010
Police say they have detained a popular Indonesian singer over a sex-tape scandal.
Pop star Nazril Irham, better known as Ariel, could face jail time if found guilty...
made popular Jun 23 2010
It is really nice to tell something uniting people round a globe-and what but sex does in the most positive way???
Also an anti-porn law is reality not only in the...
made popular Jun 16 2010
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Dede Koswara, 37 better known as ‘The Tree Man of Java’ in his home village of Bandung, Java, Indonesia, where he is continuing treatment for his rare condition. He...
made popular May 31 2010
Indonesia used to be a moderate Islamic nation, and although most Muslims there still are moderate, the ultra conservative types are waging a battle, and they seem to...
made popular May 28 2010
While Muslims piss and moan about Switzerland’s ban on minarets, not mosques mind you but minarets, and French Muslims build a mega mosque in Marseille, estimated...
made popular May 25 2010
Mohammad Rizal gets the Indonesian stupid father award of the year for getting his 2-year-old son Ardi hooked on cigarettes after giving the boy his first puff when he...
made popular May 24 2010
This is the two-year-old Indonesian boy who throws a tantrum when his parents refuse him a cigarette.
Ardi Rizal was given his first cigarette by his father when he...
made popular May 22 2010
Indonesian Islamic militants were planning a feast of violence that included assassinating U.S. President Barack Obama this year. I guess not everyone abroad is in love...
made popular May 17 2010
A couple in Indonesia have been arrested for selling monkey meat in their meatball soup.
The animal in question was a rare Javan langur, also known as a silver-leaf...
made popular Apr 29 2010
A must read news item.
Forget about getting a job as a police officer in Indonesia’s Papua if you have had your penis enlarged. You won’t get it, according...
made popular Apr 27 2010
Indonesian authorities say they have no reports of casualties following a major 7.7-magnitude earthquake off the west coast of Sumatra.
The quake struck the Simeulue...
made popular Apr 7 2010
Church in Jakarta
Yesterday was Good Friday, an important day for Christians leading up to Easter Sunday. And although most Christians in Indonesia were able to...
made popular Apr 3 2010
Usually when selfish parents marry off their underage daughters to older men they get a decent sum of money. 1,000 or so dollars, in some instances. In the case of an...
made popular Apr 3 2010
Well I would call it stupidity. When one is jilted in love what does one do, oh yes, one extreme step is to take your own life. Just give up your life for one person...
made popular Apr 1 2010
Once again, religious idiots are opening their mouths and influencing the ignorant masses who will think that since their clerics and religion condone it, it must be...
made popular Mar 29 2010
Scores of Islamic students staged protests outside Jakarta’s parliament and in at least three other major Indonesian cities on Friday against President Barack...
made popular Mar 6 2010
At least five people have been killed and dozens are missing after a huge landslide buried a village in West Java, Indonesia, officials say.
Rescue teams have been...
made popular Feb 24 2010
From around a globe daily info amuses even more professionally prepared reader your author is.
Since “Time: the economics application” questioned limits of...
made popular Feb 22 2010
They show an amazing species of gliding lizard which basically looks like a miniature dragon. Fans of the film Avatar will no doubt be reminded of the flying Toruks...
made popular Feb 17 2010
Some of the most interesting fatwas have been coming out of Indonesia recently, and surprisingly not all of them from Indonesia’s Ulemas Council.
Let’s...
made popular Feb 16 2010
It looks like U.S. President Barack Obama’s shine has slowly started to fade, although I think most of us were aware of that a while ago. But when the Obama...
made popular Feb 6 2010
‘Hantu Puncak Datang Bulan’ (The Menstruating Ghost of Puncak)a horror movie made its debut in Jakarta on Thursday and was quickly condemned by senior clerics in...
made popular Feb 6 2010
A prank has had serious repercussions for an Indonesian boy facing criminal charges because he caused a classmate to be stung by a bee, the Jakarta Post reported...
made popular Feb 2 2010
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Nusa Dua:
Finance ministers, from left, China’s Xie Xuren, South Korea’s Yoon Jeung-hyun and Japan’s Kaoru Yosano, pose together during their meeting at the Asian Development Bank meeting in Nusa Dua, resort island of Bali, Indonesia, Sunday, May 3, 2009.
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