"MUI has declared that Ahmadiyah deviates (from Islam) and has proposed to the government that the organization be dissolved based on the religious blasphemy law," Ma`ruf Amin said before he met with leaders of the People`s Consultative Assembly (MPR) here on Wednesday.
The MUI delegation which was led by Ma`ruf Amin met with the MPR leaders to discuss various recent violent incidents which were linked to the sensitive religious issue.
The MUI party members were received by MPR chairman Taufik Kiemas, accompanied by MPR deputies Lukamn Hakim, Hajriyanto Y Thohari and Melani Leimena.
Ma`ruf said further that actually the religious harmony in Indonesia had been nurtured well. In the MUI body there is an interfaith commission which handles matters relating to interfaith relations.
Aside from that, there is also a brotherhood commission in the MUI which handles the relations among Muslims.
"Most of violence so far happens within in internal religion. The only one found to have happened involving interfaith adherents is the one in Bekasi (West Java)," he said.
He said that the other violent incidents happened within one religion such as those in Cekeusik, Temanggung and Sidoarjo.
The MUI chairman said that regarding the internal conflict in Islam, there are a solidarity forum and an admonition commission which have the duties to handle it.
He said that there were matters of differences which could be tolerated but there were matters which could not be tolerated.
"If the matters are beyond the areas of differences then they are classified as deviations and could not be tolerated, and the Ahmadiyah is one of them if an example is to be mentioned," he said.
Therefore, he said, MUI has stated firmly that the Ahmdiyah teaching is deviating from Islam so that MUI is proposing to the government that the Ahmdiyah be dissolved based on the religious blasphemy law.
(Uu.A014/R013)
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