INDONESIAN ARE TERRORIST?

            Hello, people around the world. Today, I want to share as Muslim Indonesian, the truth about who we are. Okay this topic seems hard for everybody to accept but I just want to tell a slice of truth who we are. And I'm really sick of these with the whole statement and question in here when I said I'm Muslim. And people comes with lot of judgement and sentiment. I know in here, America, they have a really high racism about this, religion, where the woman wear hijab and the man have a thick beard. And every September 11 all of the school play 9/11 movies and another students start staring on us and petrify that we are on of them.

            Guys, are you kidding me? We even as an Indonesian really hate terrorist. Okay you might not interesting what I said but I will show you numbers and facts that your media told to you about the real us.

Indonesia, the home of Islam Nusantara, widely seen as one of the most progressive Islamic movements in the world. The movement - its name is Indonesian for 'East Indies Islam' - dates back more than 500 years and promotes a spiritual interpretation of Islam that stresses nonviolence, inclusiveness and acceptance of other religions.

Analysts say the theology developed organically in a place where Hinduism and Buddhism were the primary religions before Islam arrived around the 13th century. Indonesian Islam blended with local religious beliefs and traditions, creating a pluralistic society despite having a Muslim majority.

Indonesia today has more than 190 million Muslims, but also has a secular governement and influental Christian, Hindu and Buddhist minoroties. 

New York Times

            The campaign by Nahdlatul Ulama, known as NU, for a liberal, pluralistic Islam also comes at a time when Islam is at war with itself over central theological questions of how the faith is defined in the modern era.

            NU has established a nonprofit organization, Bayt Ar-Rahmah, in Winston-Salem, NC., which will be the hub for international activities including conferences and seminars to promote Indonesia's tradition of nonviolent, pluralistic Islam, 

Mr. Yahya

            NU is also working with the University of Vienna in Austria, which collects and analyzes ISIS propaganda, to prepare responses to those messages, which NU will disseminate online and at conferences.

We are directly challenging the idea of ISIS, which wants Islam to be uniform, meaning that if there is any other idea of Islam that is not following their ideas, those people are infidels who must be killed. We will show that is not the case with Islam.

- Yahya Cholil Staquf, general secretary to the NU supreme council

            And if you keep saying that we are terrorist. FYI. We also got suffered several deadly terrorist attacks by Islamic militants in recent years that have killed hundreds, including bombings on the resort island of Bali in 2002 and 2005 and at five star international Hotels in Jakarta in 2003 and 2009. Did you know that before? I bet mostly you will say no. And another truth, we had jihadi groups before, Jemaah Islamiyah but we also crushed them.

            Now, open your mind, are you keep saying that terrorist are the real Muslim if they also attack us, Indonesia as the country that has a largest Muslim population than any other country in the world.

            Hey guys, remember this, Muslim Indonesian is different from what you thought, we live so peacefully with another religions. You will be surprised when I told you that we have almost 18000 island, 742 languages, around 300 ethnicity and 6 religions. We all unite together. Only with this number, we can show how happy we are. If you keep saying all of the Muslim are terrorist, please don't be stupid. I know you are really smart. It's like when you go to school and learn Science, Mathematics, Language or Social Studies. If you never learn them before, and you just heard how bad it is or how hard it is from another people you will never know how beautiful or easy they are.

            And the way we show the right Islam is that we flood the space, as I said in my last post about Indonesian is a social freak, we flood the space and telling the truth, explaining and showing the facts.

            Hadieh Mirahmadi, president of the World Organization for Resource Development and Education, an organization based in Washington that works to combat extremism, said that,

according to open source data, supporters of the Islamic State were sending an average of 2.8 million messages a  day to their followers on Twitter. 

"Who's going to counter that?"

"It's what they are doing in Indonesia, it's hat we are doing in the US and in other places. You flood the space and you hope people get the right messages."

            Look, we are Islamic and we have several values, but we also respect local cultures. You can not say that we are the same Islam like the others. And I can say that we respect local cultures because as a fact, we have the biggest Buddhist Temple in the world (Borobudur) and we have a lot of Buddhist and Hinduism temples and I'm so proud of those and I also love to go there because its beauty. Not only temples, we have another religion heritage that I always proud of.

            Thank you and I hope you have a better understanding about us.