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LETTER OF STATEMENT
INDONESIAN MOSLEM STUDENT ASSOCIATION IN TAIWAN
Bismillahirrahmanirrrahim
(In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious and Most Merciful)
Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh
Thanks and praise may always be offered into Allah, SWT whom gives all of his bless, mercy, and favor which made all of the human beings can still feel the togetherness and friendship.
As one of the religion which is followed by more than 1.4 million people in the world, Islam comes with perfect taught and doctrine. In Islam, there are lots of things that regulate the life of human beings, from the way of doing worship into daily activities such as how to eat or how to sleep.
Include in one of the taught of Islam is to spread love and kindness throughout to world to all of the human kinds, not only among the Moslem, but also with other believers with different religion. Islam even taught to always be kind do affection even to the enemy, and always treat them with justice and fairness. We can find it in the holy book, Al-Quran, at surah Al-Mumtahinah (60) verse 8
Allah forbiddeth you not those who warred not against you on account of religion and drove you not out from your homes, that ye should show them kindness and deal justly with them. Lo! Allah loveth the just dealers (Quran 60:8)
We can also find the eminence of Islam to do kindness and love not only in the holy Qur’an, but also in lots of hadit from Rasusullah, Prophet Mohammed, SAW.
Love the others like how you love yourselves” (Hadith Bukhari)
There will be no place in heaven except for those who are merciful” (Hadith Anas and Baihaqi)
Unfortunately, there are lots of wrong depictions of Islam. One of the most new problems about this is the short movie titled “FITNA” which is made by Geert Wilders, one of the members of Dutch Parliament.
There are so many verses of Qur’an which is translated wrong and carelessly in this movie which is not proper with what is the right one in Qur’an. For example, the verses about jihad are translated so it seems that Moslem can kill everyone which is not the believers of Islam. This movie also shows the violence and brutality which is condemned in the name of Islam, and made Islam seems to be a brutal, harsh, and cruel religion. This is absolutely wrong and it is not the taught of Islam. Moreover from 99 good names of Allah (The Asmaul Husna), 2 of its are Ar-Rahman (The most gracious) and Ar-Rahim (the most merciful).It shows how Islam came into the world with love, peace and with mission to spread love, kindness, and affection throughout the world.
For that reason, related to the release of the movie “FITNA” which is worrying the Moslem all around the world and also deteriorating the relationship among believers of different religion in the world, we from Indonesian Moslem Student Association in Taiwan hereby issued our statement as follows.
| 1. | Hereby Regret and curse the release of the movie “FITNA” which is worrying and make worse of the view of Islam
| | 2. | Hereby requesting all of the country around the world not to show or spread this movie to avoid the possibility of conflict that may occur
| | 3. | Hereby demanding Mr. Geert Wilders and Miss Ayaan Hirsi Ali as the author of this movie to pull back this movie and apologize to all of the Moslem around the world
| | 4. | Hereby demanding the active support of Indonesian government with its strategic role in national and international to minimize the bad effect of this movie
| | 5. | Hereby beckon all of the Moslem around the world, especially in Indonesia, to avoid all of provocation that wants to force the misperception Islam and always think with common sense in behaving this problem.
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We always hope that the right solution will appears for the good sake of Moslem and to tighten the relationship between all of the religion around the world. May Allah pour his bless to us. On behalf of Indonesian Moslem Student Association in Taiwan
Setyabudi Indartono
President
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