Mas Rakhmat.. Yang saya tahu, negara muslim sekuler 100 persen itu TURKI..
pada 3 minggu yang lalu ada demo dan rusuh menentang pemilu yang akan diadakan dimana Turki akan menjadi negara bersyariat Islam, ditentang oleh hampir 90 persen masyarakat Turki. Rusuh dan chaos, dan akhirnya diadakan pemilu ulang.. jadi so... Indonesia jika ingin lebih baik bercermin pada Turki yang penduduknya 95 persen muslim. Turki adalah negara muslim Eropa yang sangat maju.. Turki pun sedang berperang melawan pemikiran-pemikiran yang radikal dan teror. Salam, sari --- Y Rakhmat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seorang Muslim hanya bisa menjadi sekularis 100% > bila bermukim di sebuah negara sekuler? Apa > Indonesia sekuler 100% atau hanya 77%? > > > Published on Wednesday, May 16, 2007 by the > Guardian/UK > Feminist, Socialist, Devout Muslim: Woman Who Has > Thrown Denmark into Turmoil by Ian Traynor > ODENSE, DENMARK - In the land that launched the > cartoons war between Islam and the west, Asmaa > Abdol-Hamid finds herself on the frontline, gearing > up for a new battle. > The 25-year-old social worker, student and town > councillor describes herself as a feminist, a > democrat, and a socialist. She has gay friends, > opposes the death penalty, supports abortion rights, > and could not care less what goes on in other > peoples bedrooms. In short, a tolerant Scandinavian > and European. > She is also a Palestinian and a devout Muslim who > insists on wearing a headscarf, who refuses, on > religious grounds, to shake hands with males, and > who is bidding fair to be the first Muslim woman > ever to enter the Folketing, the Danish parliament > in Copenhagen. > For the extreme right, the young activist is a > political provocateur, an agent of Islamic > fundamentalism bent on infiltrating the seat of > Danish democracy. To many on the left, Ms > Abdol-Hamid is also problematic, personifying > through her dress the reactionary repression of > women and an illiberal religious agenda that should > have no place in her leftwing red-green alliance > of socialists and environmentalists. > As a result of announcing her parliamentary > candidacy earlier this month, the young Muslim and > Danish citizen has been thrust to the centre of a > debate tormenting Denmark and the rest of western > Europe - on the place and values of Islam in modern > Europe and the treatment of large Muslim minorities. > Ms Abdol-Hamid is unfazed. I see more Islam here > in Denmark than in Iran or in other places in the > Middle East, she says. Its easier to be a Muslim > in Denmark than in Saudi Arabia. I dont feel a > stranger here. Im interested in politics. I want to > talk about this society, about political issues. But > Im not in politics because Im a Muslim. > Her ambition, combined with her insistence on > flaunting her religious affiliation, have outraged > the Danish political establishment and triggered a > new bout of soul-searching almost two years after > the publication of cartoons of the Prophet ignited > violence and protest across the Islamic world. > This goes far beyond the extreme right, says > Toger Seidenfaden, editor of the Politiken daily > newspaper. Asmaa is insisting on the right to be a > religious Muslim and thats provoking broad debate > among the public. > The key issue is the headscarf and whether it can > be accommodated in parliament. This month Ms > Abdol-Hamid gained the candidacy for a safe > Copenhagen seat for the leftwing Unity List. > The Danish Peoples Party or DFP, the far-right > movement that unofficially props up the weak > centre-right government of the prime minister, > Anders Fogh Rasmussen, is on the warpath. A couple > of DFP politicians compared the headscarf to the > Nazi swastika. One described the prospective MP as > brainwashed. > We dont like the idea of her performing as an > Islamist in the parliament, says DFP spokesman Kim > Eskildsen. We find it wrong that shell use the > parliament as a tool for Islamism We dont > consider this woman a Nazi. But the way the > headscarf is used is comparable to other > totalitarian symbols. > The happiest country in the world, according to > one detailed survey of international living > standards and public attitudes, Denmark is > economically highly successful, with the lowest > unemployment in the EU. > For the countrys 200,000 Muslims and immigrants, > however, that happiness is increasingly somewhere > else. By virtue of the DFPs influence on the > centre-right government, Denmark has enacted the > tightest anti-immigration legislation in Europe in > recent years. > Many Danes married to foreigners now commute into > Copenhagen every day from the southern Swedish town > of Malmo across the bridge linking the two cities > because they cannot obtain residence for their > spouses at home. > Ms Abdol-Hamid, who shares a one-room council flat > with one of her six sisters in the ghetto of > Vollsmose, in the town of Odense, says her political > mission is to fight for this underclass. > This is such a rich country. But we have people > in Denmark in deep poverty and nobody helps them. > For me the welfare system is very close to Islam. > But we need to change the government. > But conservative Muslim leaders are also > disapproving of her activism. > Some Muslims dont think its right for a female > to act like this. They go to my father and tell him, > get her married, get her married, she laughs. > Others think you cant be Muslim and Danish at the > same time. Some of the Muslims and the extreme right > are just the same. > And there are women in my party who say that > anyone who wears the headscarf is oppressed. Its > like they think Im dumb. Theyre taking away my > individuality. We need the right to choose. Its up > to us whether or not we wear headscarves. > They think Im a woman from the Middle East. No. > Im a Danish Muslim.
