A Muslim cleric has been arrested on charges of blasphemy and hate speech in Indonesia after his decision to allow women to preach and pray beside men sparked a backlash in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation.
That cleric seems like a pretty cool Muslim dude. I hope the damn Islamists won´t murder the poor guy.
I did not know this, Indonesia is the world’s largest muslim majority country? Time for another deep dive.
You want a real bad one? Read into what Indonesia is doing (with tacit support and direct arming from the west) to the Papuans
No thanks, I already suffer from depression
Looks like the papuans are fighting against the corrupt gov, but it says the US aided Indonesia until '92?
I don’t know anything about this conflict, thanks
Yes, Indonesia has been the world’s largest muslim country for well over a decade.
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Thank you, Sporcle
I will take blasphemy, it’s terrible but at least I can see it…
…allowing women to preach is hate speech though? Not the other way around??
‘Hate speech’ is entirely defined by the government’s opinion on issues.
Muhammad forbid that women gain equal standing with men in the Muslim world…Christ forbid that women gain equal standing in the Christian world…Yeshua forbid that women gain equal standing in the Jewish world…
I’m sensing a pattern here…
My knowledge on the bible is not too detailed, but could I ask, where Christ forbade the equal standing of women? If I remember right he said to the women they are not less than men, and even let them travel with him. I could be wrong tho.
That was less Jesus, and more Paul. Parl had some serious issues with women that he baked into Christianity. Jesus seemed pretty cool with women.
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He was cool about women, but still travelled with 12 dudes. The 4 gospels set up the mythology and philosophy. The letters from Paul set the rules. The later books just went wild.
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Does your penis feel threatened? Should go ask a female Roman Catholic priest what to do about it.
Ah yes, the famous, not here to preach the love and care for each other god taught us but the rules of humans
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Islam is evil.
This is a comment about the philosophy. This is not about the human followers, hence neither hate speech nor bigotry.
Curious whether this survives.
Almost all religion is evil. Some are worse than others.
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Seems many people are misunderstanding the issue and bashing the religion. Islam allows women to be imams (leaders of congregations and prayers) but like conservative Judaism they can only lead groups of women in prayer. Mixed prayers of men and women are led by men.
Yeah okay, I read that as segregation based on gender.
Women aren’t allowed to lead men in prayer but men are allowed to lead women in prayer. I love how male Muslim apologists use their own lack of personal responsibility to justify the systematic disenfranchisement of women the same way Roman Catholics and Orthodox Jews do. It’s almost like messianic received religion is the core issue and less religious societies have less sexual and physical violence towards women.
