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...unlikely to speed the peace process much, which slowly resumed after months of inaction following last July's bombings of commuter trains in Mumbai. Brahma Chellaney, a professor at the Centre for Policy Research in Delhi, says there are bigger issues to overcome once the mourning has passed. "A normal relationship is not going to happen unless it's founded on closer economic and energy integration," he says. Perhaps, but at least the dialogue is no longer as easy to derail as trains...
...constitution that guarantees a separation of mosque and state. Those secular underpinnings, say some legal experts, call into question the very constitutionality of the Shari'a bylaws. But the administration of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has sidestepped this debate. Vice President Jusuf Kalla calls the faith-based regulations "normal" in a Muslim-majority state, insisting: "It is not Shari'a law but laws influenced by Shari'a." Yudhoyono himself has avoided any public comment on the bylaws' legality. "The President will do nothing on this because he is scared of offending the Islamic movement," says former Indonesian President...
...Islamic sect Ahmadiyah, which claims up to 500,000 members. In the past year, several Ahmadiyah mosques have been forcibly closed or destroyed by mobs, as have dozens of Christian house churches. Separately, a Muslim cleric in East Java was jailed for preaching in Indonesian, as opposed to the normal Arabic. In West Java, three women are serving three-year prison terms for running Christian kindergarten classes also attended by Muslim children. "Sometimes we have to defend the community's morality by force," says Sobri Lubis, spokesman for the Islamic Defenders Front (claimed membership: 5 million), which has carried...
...unlikely to speed the peace process much, which slowly resumed after months of inaction following last July's bombings of commuter trains in Mumbai. Brahma Chellaney, a professor at the Centre for Policy Research in Delhi, says there are bigger issues to overcome once the mourning has passed. "A normal relationship is not going to happen unless it's founded on closer economic and energy integration," he says. Perhaps, but at least the dialogue is no longer as easy to derail as trains...
...appeared that the student group was just a facade to get money outside of the normal party fund process,” Ragalie said yesterday afternoon...