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...important," says one caller to a Xiamen city radio show. "We must all remember that." In Indonesia, where the Muslim majority isn't forced to hide its religiosity, spirituality is still only reluctantly covered by the print media and television. "Most TV stations are too conservative," says Ulil Abshar-Abdalla, one of the country's best-known young Muslim intellectuals. "They're afraid they might lose ads or face demonstrations...
...bravura performance is at the core of the man's mystery. Is he just "the Britney Spears of Islam," as he is characterized by Ulil Abshar-Abdalla, head of Indonesia's Liberal Islam Network? Is he merely a feel-good merchant who uses religion for his commercial ends? Or is Solahuddin Wahid, vice chairman of the 40 million-member Nahdlatul Ulama, right when he says that Aa Gym's "sincerity is his strength. He's creating a society based on his words and deeds...
...surprised, glad, at how good the turnout worked out," said Mikail Abdalla, a librarian at the University of Rhode Island. "I was expecting maybe 100, 120 people...
...Abdalla rode up with approximately 20 members of the University of Rhode Island's Islamic society...
...Marwah Abdalla...