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Originally posted by Rudey
And those leaders are still not in charge Arya. They are not the ones on tv. They are not the ones making the speeches. And if you'd like I can dig into a couple articles (later - not now because the port financing i'm working on is much more important) on Arab scholars being shut out even in the US because they didn't agree with wahabism and rejected Saudi money to buy them off like most other madrasas and "scholars".
-Rudey
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Amien Rais is the spokeperson of the MPR (the highest legislative branch). He is considered a very powerful politicians. He was also the unofficial leader of the student movement during the fall of Suharto. The Arab World doesn't represent the total picture of Islam. Unfortunately they seem to be the loudest. Abdurahman Wahid is the former President of Indonesia. When he speaks, people listen. Interestingly, he is blind and crippled, yet he was ellected to be the PResident by the MPR. (I can tell you how the electoral system used to work, but it'll take me way too long) I agree with you that Saudi money is poison. Many madrasas in Indonesia that are inline with Indonesian version of Islam have complained that they can't compete with the money. However, Saudi version of Islam isn't making any ground. Sure you got JI and extremist such as FPI, etc. FPI, as later known, is nothing more then a thug group that beat up bars so they can steal money. As for JI, they are dangerous and they are being track down by the Indonesian inteligence agencies. So you can see, the Muslim world is bigger then the Arabic world. i personally hope the House of Saud get overthrown.