Assalamu'alaikum wr wb,
Insya Allah cita-cita pak Achmad untuk duduk sama rendah, berdiri sama
tinggi.......dengan saudara - saudara kita baik yang di Amerika dan Eropa akan
segera terwujud,
U. S - Islamic World Forum.
Welcome and Ahlan wa Sahlan,
One of the greatest challenges in global politics today is the
dangerous tension growing between the United States and the world's Muslim
states and communities. This deepening divide is a critical impediment to
cooperation on a breadth of vital issues, ranging from dealing with terrorism
and radicalism to supporting human development and freedom.
The U.S.-Islamic World Forum brings together leaders from politics, business,
media, academia, and civil society from across the Islamic world (including
Muslim communities in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East) for an annual
dialogue with their American counterparts. This institutionalized dialogue,
made possible by the vision and support of the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad Bin
Khalifa Al-Thani, has as its essential purpose the building of bridges between
the United States and the Islamic world.
The Doha Forum seeks to serve as both a convening body and a catalyst for
positive action. Therefore, its focus is not on dialogue for dialogue's sake,
but on developing actionable programs for government, civil society, and the
private sector. The first meeting of the Forum was in January 2004. Over 165
leaders from the U.S. and 37 states in the Muslim world met over the course of
3 days. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Sheikh Hamad delivered the
keynote addresses. In addition to the dialogue and debate, among the most
heartening aspects of the meeting were the various networks and endeavors that
were generated, including the building of schools and other human development
initiatives in the region, the formation of a Muslim American foreign policy
caucus, and the initiation of track two diplomatic talks for certain conflict
zones. A summary of the 2004 Forum, including a full list of attendees, can be
found here.
The 2005 conference is shaping up to be quite an impressive event. Top American
and Muslim world leaders, whose backgrounds range from Ministers and CEOs to
University Deans and Newspaper Editors, representing over thirty countries will
be in attendance.
In addition to regional and international press coverage of the conference,
amongst our partners is America Abroad Media, which will be taping its
international affairs show on site, drawing from the events and participants.
Its program is broadcast on more than 90 US public radio stations and in more
than 100 countries, with the television side scheduled for launch on PBS
stations in the Fall.
In addition, the conference will be again partnering with Soliya, an
Internet-based youth educational program, which will connect the conference
events to students in both U.S. and Arab universities. For more information on
this initiative, please go to Soliya Web site. If you would like to link this
cooperative program with your institution, please contact us and we will work
to facilitate.
We would like to express our deep appreciation to the Government of Qatar,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Ford Foundation, the Education for
Employment Foundation, Haim Saban, and the Brookings Institution, for helping
to make the Forum possible. Given ongoing events, its meetings could not have
come at a more timely and needed juncture.
Kindest regards,
Professor Stephen P. Cohen
Project Co-Convenor
Ambassador Martin Indyk
Project Co-Convenor
Dr. Peter W. Singer
Project Director
Professor Shibley Telhami
Project Co-Convenor
wassalam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kalau saya membaca postingan Mas Jano Ko di bawah ini, saya cuma komentar:
Alhamdulillah ada beberapa orang Barat yang tetap setia mengingatkan negara dan
bangsanya untuk bisa memahami Islam dengan baik!
Tetapi, sebagai orang Islam yang berkebangsaan Indonesia, saya masih berdoa:
"semoga kebijakan barat semakin manusiawi." Sebab, kami tidak membutuhkan
puji-pujian, yang kami butuhkan adalah pengakuan yang terang-benderang
negara-negara Barat terhadap negara-negara berkembang dan yang belum maju bahwa
hakikatnya semua bangsa itu setara dan harus diperlakukan sebagaimana pepatah
"duduk sama rendah, berdiri sama tinggi; ringan sama dijinjing dan berat sama
dipikul".
Semoga negara-negara maju tidak melakukan terus-menerus "de l'homme par
l'homme, de nation par nation", penghisapan manusia atas manusia dan negara
atas negara. Bila ada tulisan asing yang masih salah tulis, saya mohon maaf.
Wassalam,
chodjim
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What the Western Thinkers Said about Islam
What the Western Thinkers Said about Islam
Islam came like a flood of light it illumined the entire environment. Its
charm so captivated many that they moved into its fold but those who, for a
variety of reasons, did not enter its fold, were also spell-bound. They could
not help admiring its beauty, splendour and grandeur. They confessed its
greatness and paid tributes to it. Their evidence is important in one respect:
it comes from those who are not within it, from many who have, on the whole,
been rather antagonistic; but they too had to admit its unique features, its
serenity that casts its spell on all and sundry. It is a selection of such
evidence that we now present.
Islam: A Simple, Humanitarian and Attractive Religion
Islam had the power of peacefully conquering souls by the simplicity of
its theology, the clearness of its dogma and principles, and the definite
number of the practices which it demands. In contrast to Christianity which has
been undergoing continual transformation since its origin, Islam has remained
identical with itself.
(Jean Lheureux, Etude sur LIslamisme P.35)
Two features in the Creed of Islam have always specially attracted me.
One is the God conception, the other is its unquestionable sincerity a
tremendous asset in human affairs, the religious aspect of them especially.
After all, sincerity is almost divine and like love covers a multitude of
sins.
(Major Arthur Glyn Leonard, Islam Her Moral and Spiritual
Value, London, 1927)
Sense of justice is one of the most wonderful ideals of Islam, because
as I read in the Quran I find those dynamic principles of life, not mystic but
practical ethics for the daily conduct of life suited to the whole world.
(Sirojini Naidu, Lecture on The Ideals of Islam vide
Speeches and Writings of Sirojini Naidu, Madras, 1918, P 167)
The rise of Islam is perhaps the most amazing event in human history.
Springing from a land and a people alike previously negligible, Islam spread
within a century over half the earth, shattering great empires, overthrowing
long established religions, remoulding the souls of races, and building up a
whole new world the world of Islam
For the first three centuries of its
existence (circ.A.D. 650-1000) the realm of Islam was the most civilised and
progressive portion of the world. Studded with splendid cities, gracious
mosques, and quiet universities where the wisdom of the ancient world was
preserved and appreciated, the Muslim world offered a striking contrast to the
Christian West, then sunk in the night of the Dark Ages.
(A.M Lothrop Stoddard, Ph.D., The New World of Islam, London
1932, pp1-3)
There can be no question but that, with its pure monotheism, and a code
founded in the main on justice and humanity, Islam succeeds in raising to a
higher level races sunk in idolatry and fetishism, like those of Central
Africa, and that in some respects, notably in that of temperance, it materially
improves the morality of such peoples.
(Sir William Muir, Mohamed and Islam, London, 1895 p.246)
Islamic Brotherhood: All Are Equal
Take away that black man! I can have no discussion with him, exclaimed
the Christian Archbishop Cyrus when the Arab conquerors had sent a deputation
of their ablest men to discuss terms of surrender of the capital of Egypt,
headed by Negro Ubadah as the ablest of them all.
To the sacred archbishops astonishment, he was told that this man was
commissioned by General Amr; that the Muslims held Negroes and white men in
equal respect judging a man by his character and not by his colour.
Such a spirit of class distinction is certainly the greatest hindrance
to missionary work in the East, as every impartial observer has noted. How, for
instance, can any other appeal stand against that of the Muslim who, in
approaching the pagan, says to him, however obscure or degraded he may be,
Embrace the faith, and you are at once an equal and a brother. Islam knows no
colour line.
(S.S Leeder, Veiled Mysteries of Egypt, London, 1912,pp.332 335)
The Islamic brotherhood which they proclaimed was a real thing, and a
new thing among Eastern nations. It is doubtful whether Christian Syrians ever
felt the same sense of brotherhood with Christian Persians as Muslim Syrians
did with Muslim Persians.
(Lawrence E. Browne, The Prospects of Islam, London, 1944, p.12)
But Islam has yet a further service to render the cause of humanity
No
other society has such a record of success in uniting in an equality of status,
of opportunity and of endeavour so many and so various races of mankind. The
great Muslim communities of Africa, India and Indonesia, perhaps also the small
Muslim community in Japan, show that Islam has still the power to reconcile
apparently irreconcilable elements of race and tradition. If ever the
opposition of the great societies of the East and the West is to be replaced by
co-operation, the mediation of Islam is an indispensable condition.
(H.A.R. Gibb. Whither Islam, London, 1932 p. 379)
But above alland herein is its supreme importance in the missionary
history of Islamit ordains a yearly gathering of believers, of all nations and
languages, brought together from all parts of the world, to pray in that sacred
place towards which their faces are set in every hour of private worship in
their distant homes. No stretch of religious genius could have conceived a
better expedient for impressing on the minds of the faithful a sense of their
common life and of brotherhood in the bonds of faith.
Besides the institution of the pilgrimage, the payment of the legal alms
is another duty that continually reminds the Muslim that the faithful are
brothers (XLIX-10) religious theory that is very strikingly realised in
Muslim society and seldom fails to express itself in acts of kindness towards
the new convert. Whatever be his race, colour or antecedents he is received
into the brotherhood of believers and takes his place as an equal among
equals.
(T. W. Arnold, The Preaching of Islam, London, 1956, pp. 415-416)
It was the first religion that preached and practised democracy; for, in
the mosque when the call from the Minaret is sounded and the worshippers are
gathered together, the democracy of Islam is embodied five times a day when the
peasant and the king kneel side by side and proclaim, God alone is great. I
have been struck over and over again by this indivisible unity of Islam that
makes a man distinctively a brother. When you meet an Egyptian, an Algerian, an
Indian and a Turk in London, what matters that Egypt was the motherland of one
and India the motherland of another.
The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the
outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as
it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtues
(Sirojini Naidu, Lecture on The ideals of Islam vide Speeches and
Writings of Sirojini Naidu, Madras, 1918, p.169)
Islamic Law: The Most Enlightened Jurisprudence
The Islamic Law which is binding on all from the crowned head to the
meanest subject is a law interwoven with a system of the wisest, the most
learned and the most enlightened jurisprudence that ever existed in the world.
(Edmund Burke, in his Impeachment of warren Hastings)
Islam Imparts Knowledge and Creates Intellect
To seek knowledge is a duty of every Muslim man and woman. Seek
knowledge even though it be in china. The savants are the heirs of the
Prophets. These profound words of the great reformer are an indisputable
contradiction to those who seek and exert themselves in putting the
responsibility of the intellectual degradation of Muslims upon the spirit of
the Quran. Let them read and meditate upon this great Book and they will read
that the Prophet incessantly called the attention and the meditation of his
people to the splendid marvels, to the mysterious phenomenon of creation. The
incredulous, sceptical and unbelieving may convince themselves that the
importance of this Book and its doctrine was not to throw back, eventually, the
intellectual and moral faculties of a whole people. On the contrary, those who
have followed its counsels have been the creators of a civilisation which is
astounding unto this day.
(Dr. A. Bertherand, Contribution des Arabes au Progress de Sciences Medicales,
Paris 1883, p.6).
It is to Mussulman science, to Mussulmsn art and to Mussulman literature
that Europe has been in a great measure indebted for its extrication from the
darkness of the Middle Ages.
(Marquis of Dufferin and Ava, Speeches Delivered in India, London, 1890, p. 24)
It may be boldly asserted that no people in the world give the
impression of being so religious-minded as do Moslems. All of life is saturated
with the consciousness of God.
(Charles R. Watson, what is this
Moslem world? London, 193, pp. 38-39)
Many Westerners, accustomed by their history books to believe that
Muslims were barbarous infidels, find it difficult to comprehend how profoundly
our intellectual life has been influenced by Muslim scholars in the field of
science, medicine, mathematics, geography and philosophy. Crusaders who invaded
the Holy Land to fight Muslims returned to Europe with new ideas of love,
poetry, chivalry, warfare and government. Our concept of what a university
should be was deeply modified by Muslim scholars, who perfected the writing of
history and who brought to Europe much Greek learning.
(James A. Michener, Islam The Misunderstood Religion, in the Readers
Digest (American Edition, for May1955)
Jihad and Muslim Conquests
The crusades, the Turkish wars, and the great expansion of Europe
widened the gulf between Christianity and Islam, while as the East was
gradually brought under ecclesiastical influence the contrast grew deeper. The
theory, however, that the Muslim conquerors and their successors were inspired
by a fanatical hatred of Christianity is a fiction invented by Christians.
(C.H. Becker, Christianity and Islam, London, 1909, pp. 28-33)
Incidentally these well-established facts dispose of the idea so widely
fostered in Christian writings that the Muslims, wherever they went, forced
people to accept Islam at the point of the sword.
(Lawrence W. Browne, The Prospects of Islam, London, 1944, p.14)
The Jihad was not really obligatory except against peoples who had no
revealed religion or who menace the existence of Islam
Jihad had to be waged
to defend Islam against aggressions
Once the war was terminated the Muslims
always displayed a great tolerance towards the conquered peoples leaving them
their legislation and religious beliefs.
(O. Houdes, La Grade Encyclopaedia, 1894, Tome 20, p. 1006)
No other religion in history spread so rapidly as Islam
The West has
widely believed that this surge of religion was made possible by the sword. But
no modern scholar accepts that idea, and the Quran is explicit in support of
the freedom of conscience. The evidence is strong that Islam welcomed the
peoples of many diverse religions, so long as they behaved themselves and paid
extra taxes. Muhammad constantly taught that Muslims should co-operate with the
people of the Book (Jews and Christians).
Although Islam originated in Arabia, today only a small percentage (7
per cent) of the worlds Muslims are Arabians, and less than a quarter (20 per
cent) speak Arabic as their native language.
More than most religions, Islam preaches the brotherhood of all races,
colours and nations within its fold. Muhammad himself probably had exactly the
same skin colouring as Jesus a very sun tanned white but today his
followers embrace all colours; black men from Africa, yellow men from China,
brown men from Malaya, white men from Turkey.
(James A. Michener, Islam The Misunderstood Religion, in the Readers
Digest (American Edition, for May1955)
History makes it clear, however, that the legend of fanatical Muslims
sweeping through the world and forcing Islam at the point of the sword upon
conquered races is one of the most fantastically absurd myths that historians
have over repeated.
(De Lacy OLeary, Islam at the Crossroads, London, 1923, p.8)
In their wars of conquest, however, the Muslims exhibited a degree of
toleration which puts many Christian nations to same.
(E. Alexander Powell, The Struggle for power in Muslim Asia. New York 1923,
p.48).
The nobility and broad tolerance of this creed, which accepts as
God-inspired all the real religions of the world, will always be a glorious
heritage for mankind. On it could indeed be built a perfect world religion.
(Duncan Greenless, M.A. (Oxon.), The Gospel of Islam, Adyar 1948, p.27)
In Muhammads days there was no Arabic version of the Bible from which he
could obtain accurate knowledge of Christ
. Therefore some maintain that the
very existence of Islam is due to the failure of the Church.
(Angus Nicolson, ph. D., A Guide to Islam, Stirling, 1951, p. 16)
Islam Can Fill the Social and Spiritual Vacuum Created by West
I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because
of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to possess
that assimilating capability to the changing phases of existence which can make
itself appeal to every age
.
I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be
acceptable tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today.
The Mediaeval ecclesiastics, either through ignorance or bigotry, painted Islam
in the darkest colours. They were, in fact, trained to hate both the man
Muhammad and his religion. To them Muhammad was anti-Christ. I have studied
him, the wonderful man, and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must
be called the saviour of Humanity. I believe that if a man like him were to
assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its
problems in a way that he would bring it the much-needed peace and happiness.
Europe is beginning to be enamoured of the creed of Muhammad. In the next
century it may go still further in recognising the utility of that creed in
solving its problems and it is in this sense that you must understand my
prediction.
A collection of Writings of Some of the Eminent Scholars, published by
the Working Muslim Mission, 1935, p.77)
While Christianity in recent years has moved towards a social gospel,
Islam has been a social gospel from the start. A significant distinction
between the two Religions is that in the New Testament is a revelation of God;
in the Quran is a revelation from God
Any religion that has lasted fourteen
centuries must have some thing fundamentally significant and meaningful to say
to every man whether he is a millionaire or a pauper, a prince or a slave. And
Islam undoubtedly does.
(Wilfred Cantwell Smith. Islam in Modern History,
London, 1946, pp.22-24).
In these recently and rapidly opened up tropical territories, the
Western civilization has produced an economic and political plenum and, in the
same breath, a social and spiritual void.
Here then in the foreground of the future, we can remark two valuable
influences which Islam may exert upon the cosmopolitan proletariat of a Western
society that has cast its net round the world and embraced the whole of
mankind.
(A. J. Toynbee, Civilisation on Trial, New York 1948, pp.208-208)
Thursday : 26/04/2001
Salam
PS. Dilarang Rendah Diri dan memble bagi semua insan yang mengaku Muslim dan
Muslimah.
jano ko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Percuma aja diskusi tentang Islam, kalau wawasan kita cuma wawasan kelas
"lokal", yang keluar dari mind kita ya engga "mutu dan wagu".
Nah ini oleh-oleh dari Amerika,
ISLAM SEBAGAI DIEN YANG TERHORMAT DAN DIHORMATI OLEH PIMPINAN KLAS DUNIA.
THE PRESIDENT'S QUOTES ON ISLAM
In the Presidents Words: Respecting Islam
The United States is a nation dedicated to religious tolerance and freedom,
and President Bush has acted to ensure that the world's Muslims know that
America appreciates and celebrates the traditions of Islam.
"Here in the United States our Muslim citizens are making many contributions in
business, science and law, medicine and education, and in other fields. Muslim
members of our Armed Forces and of my administration are serving their fellow
Americans with distinction, upholding our nation's ideals of liberty and
justice in a world at peace."
Remarks by the President on Eid Al-Fitr
The Islamic Center of Washington, D.C.
December 5, 2002
Nah siapa yang bilang pemikiran Islam mandeg ...ndeg ?...ngoyo moro aja....
Nggak usah Psy War-waran lah...udah engga jamannya.
salim
Ari Condro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Babat- Debat Khalifah Islamiyah & SI
http://www.apakabar.ws/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=298&Itemid=
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Dalam debat2 soal SI, komentar prof Azumardi (AA) ttg khalifah Islam dan
menyambung komentarku sebelum ini, ada banyak faktor. Ada faktor yg
berkaitan dengan Islam itu sendiri, dan ada yg dari luar, dan interaksi
antar keduanya.Dalam debat2 soal SI, komentar prof Azumardi (AA) ttg
khalifah Islam dan menyambung komentarku sebelum ini, ada banyak faktor. Ada
faktor yg berkaitan dengan Islam itu sendiri, dan ada yg dari luar, dan
interaksi antar keduanya.
Pertama, terhentinya pemikiran2 nalar dalam Islam dan matinya progresi ilmu.
Ini sudah terjadi sejak debat al-ghazzali di Bagdhad, sudah lewat part of
history
.Kedua, terhentinya pemikiran kekuasaan publik akibat kembalinya sistem
kekuasaan Islam ke kerajaan purba, sehingga kita tidak bisa lagi
membicarakan sistem majlis brotherhood egalitarian yg jelas2 diajukan oleh
Muhammad dulu. Note disini, idea majlis islami ini jelas belum matang untuk
aplikasi pemerintahan modern, sama halnya dengan ide2 kedaulatan rakyat
revolusi perancis juga diawalnya tidak matang. Perlu banyak adaptasi dan
klarifikasi untuk bisa menjadi sistem yg siap pakai. Tetapi juga jelas bahwa
ada sumbangan yg bisa dilakukan oleh sistem majlis Islami ini (hal yg sama
dari sistem hirarkis konfusionis bisa dibentuk menjadi pemerintahan bersih
spt di Singapore dan sekarang diusahakan di Cina setelah ber-abad2 hanya
mendukung rejim feudal). Aku merasa - spt statement AA - bahwa sistem majlis
islami bisa saja memberi sumbangan besar pada sistem pemerintahan masa depan
yg inheren didalamnya ada sistem etika individu. Bagaimana bentuknya aku
tidak tahu kini, yg jelas sama sekali berbalikan dari sistem2 yg ada spt
talebanisme.
Ketiga, perkembangan sejarah modern kaum muslim sekarang telah menjadi
identik dengan 'kaum tertindas'. Ini sesungguhnya sekedar proses sejarah,
sejak ambruknya dinasti ottoman (yg memang sepatutnya ambruk, karena
basisnya yg feudal sangat lemah). Kaum muslim saat ini merasa dirinya kaum
tertindas, spt kaum marxis di abad 19 dan awal 20. Rasa ketertindasan yg
bisa dikatakan 'struktural' itu menimbulkan banyak sekali reaksi letupan2
emosi - sama spt rasa ketertindasan dimanapun. Perasaan ini relatif terkubur
dibawah permukaan pada masa2 perang dingin, dan meledak kini post 911 dan
perang teror US. Saat ini adalah masa2 panas mudah meledak untuk ajaran
Islam. Saat2 emosional - mirip2 spt gerakan komunisme di awal 60an. Masa2
tidak rasional dan masa2 tidak berpikir. Ini berakibat jelek pada dua sisi,
ya muslim nya ya non-muslim nya.
Reaksi2 spt tulisan2 VH (di thread2 lain) yg membela SI atas basis 'bela
diri' itu adalah wajar dalam masa2 spt sekarang, sama spt dulu kader PKI
selalu mengeluaran insinuasi ancaman pada lawan2 politiknya: nanti jika kita
menang .....
Secara keseluruhan, malah bisa dikatakan VH lebih restraining diri dibanding
yg lain. Walau juga jelas semangat machismo nya sangat kuat. Setidaknya dia
jujur, menuliskan apa yg dia pikir, dalam konteks yg dia tahu. Di banyak
situasi, semangat machismo 'panas' itu memang muncul spt isi tulisannya:
Tunggu saja saat nya .... Awal 60 an.
- Apa artinya ini semua? Melihat situasi manusia harus dengan kacamata
kemanusiaan. Artinya, pemahaman bahwa memang wajar manusia mempunyai watak
emosional, rasio dan irrasionalitas, semangat balas dendam, short term dll
selain juga empati, long term, penolakan pada kekerasan dll. Kita tidak
bisa - kenyataannya tidak bisa - mengasumsikan manusia full rational lepas
dari konteks kesehariannya.
Lalu, saat ini bangunan SI tidak siap sama sekali tetapi tidak ada
alternatif jelas. Jutaan anak muda yg tertindas ber-teriak2 (tampak pada
kasus kartun denmark kemarin) membenci rasa ketertindasan itu. Tetapi mereka
tidak mempunyai kerangka pemikiran yg memadai. 'Terpaksa' banyak yg
mengambil apa yg ada - syariah islamiyah. Sama spt kaum marxist dulu, apapun
yg terjadi jangan kapitalisme, bentuk sosialisme yg spt apa itu pertanyaan
sekunder.
Ini reaksi wajar. Bukan berarti benar, tetapi sangat bisa diduga. Pertanyaan
ttg kewajaran SI dianggap menjadi pernyataan serangan terhadap paham
keislaman. Sikat dulu. Dalam term spt ini, maka tulisan2 VH bisa dikatakan
'ringan'. Dibanding pengawuran2 dari adisatya misalnya (si mbahmu-sempal yg
sangat tendensius :P ).
Ingat bahwa ini bukan urusan benar atau tidak. Beberapa kantong2 masyarakat
yg 'stewing on their own juices' - artinya hanya diskusi diantara mereka
sendiri - yg akhirnya membuat mereka jadi super-radikal; ini sudah masuk
teritori perang.
Apa yg seharusnya terjadi? Komentar AA itu suatu start. Secara ideal
seharusnya mulai ada pemikiran sintesa yg menjawab pertanyaan2 hakiki ttg
islam modern. Yang di diskusi kan dan dijawab oleh mereka2 yg berkompeten,
tidak emosional, dan berniat baik. Semua kultur mempunyai banyak sisi.
Kultur yg pernah 'menang' artinya pernah menjadikan suatu bangsa menjadi
besar dalam waktu lama, pasti mempunyai banyak sisi positif. Selain tentu
saja sisi2 negatif. Masalahnya adalah sisi mana yg diberi emphasis.
Sebagai ilustrasi adalah menyambung komentarku ttg confusius Cina. Sistem
tata negara confusius adalah hirarkis rigid mandarinisme yg menekankan
simbol dan ritual2 lebih daripada kenyataan, dengan ajaran yg berbasis pada
arogansi suatu idealisme ttg 'penguasa yg bermoral'. Sistem ini membantu
membuat kekaisaran cina menjadi mandarinisme (birokrasi kejam) selama
ratusan tahun. Jika mau menekankan sisi negatif sistem ini sangat banyak
bisa dilakukan. Tetapi tokh di jaman modern ini suatu sintesa modern bisa
diciptakan: pemerintahan meritokrasi (dan semi xenophobic) Singapura! Malah
sekarang sedang di implementasi dalam skala sangat besar di Cina. Jika sisi
positif2 nya (meritokrasi, moral) yg menang, jelas confusius akan menyumbang
sangat besar pada jaman modern.
Dengan cara pikir yg sama, mengapa Islam tidak bisa? Saat ini bahkan model
Singapore untuk Islam sudah ada: Dubai, yang port-authority (perusahaan
pengurus pelabuhan)nya baru saja mencaplok P&O dan sekarang menjadi
perusahaan terbesar ketiga setelah Hutchison Li-kashing Hongkong dan PSA
Temasek Singapore. Konsorsium Dubai ini yg sekarang sedang di tengah2
gegeran karena akan mengontrol 6 pelabuhan di US (Dubai masuk, Dubya
mumets!)
Dubai adalah eksperimen Singaporean confusius untuk Islam. Mungkin pemikir2
yg bisa merumuskan sintesa modern Islam belum muncul -- mungkin juga tidak
bakalan segera muncul - menunggu badai emosional juvenile muslim ini lewat
(10 tahunan lagi, dengan asumsi al-qaeda tidak sukses, jika bajingan2 itu
sukses ya jauh lebih lama lagi).
Itulah sisi positif melihat badai ini -- termasuk didalamnya taufan SI
ngindo ini. Ngindo ada di tengah2 badai Islam ini, akan menjadi salah satu
negara yg paling hancur jika things go wrong, tetapi sebaliknya mungkin bisa
jadi negara yg memetik keuntungan terbesar jika things go right.
In the meantime, kurasa tidak ada jeleknya sama sekali airing debates spt yg
sekarang di milis2 ini. Setidaknya airing the debates membuka katup diskusi
agar tidak tertutup menjadi diskusi antar radikal yg saling memanaskan emosi
tanpa masukan baru apa2.
Dan ingat juga, sama spt halnya paham komunisme, hal yg paling besar
mengurangi radikalisme adalah kemakmuran rakyat banyak. Itu sebabnya short
term Malaysia mungkin akan lebih beruntung daripada Indonesia. Fanatisme
besar2an muncul jika perut lapar dan mata merah.
Aku really suggest kalian2 yg tidak benar2 dalam kategori 'perut lapar'
tidak perlu pura2 lapar untuk justifikasi ngamuk. Jujur saja. Tulis apa yg
benar2 kalian pikir tanpa retorika sloganistis yg keterlaluan. Bagi kalian2
yg benar2 kelaparan, dengan sedih harus dinyatakan bahwa tidak banyak yg
bisa kulakukan untuk membantu kalian -- mungkin nasehat bagaimana jika
mengurangi akses ke milis2 debat dan lebih ke job-hunting? biarkan hal2
makro itu lewat. Sekedar nasehat saja. Secara prinsip semua orang
bertanggung jawab atas dirinya sendiri2.
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