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Merayakan Kebebasan Beragama - Democracy Project

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<strong>Democracy</strong> <strong>Project</strong>KETIKA PLURALISME DIHARAMKANDAN KEBEBASAN BERKEYAKINANDICEDERAI 1(Sebuah Kaleidoskop, Pengalaman, dan Kesaksianuntuk Mas Djohan Effendi)• M. Syafi’i Anwar 2“All religions are based on the revelation from Allah. The Qur’an hascome to be guardian of earlier truth revealed through other scriptures.This is inclusive approach and is very vital for acceptance of the‘religious other’. The laws, the ways of life, may differ and yet din, thedivine essence, the divine truth, is the same. It is reflected in all religions,in all spiritual traditions and we humans have no right to reject the‘other’ as illegitimate, much less, false. Thus it is our human ego whichrejects the religious other and not the falsity of other faith traditions.(Asghar Ali Engineer, Director of Institute of Islamic Studies, Mumbai,India, dalam artikelnya “Islam and Pluralism”-http://www. crescent -life.com/spirituality/islam_and_pluralism.htm)Bapak Presiden,Sesat-menyesatkan adalah fenomena biasa dalam dunia keagamaansepanjang sejarah. Akan tetapi merampas kebebasan berkeyakinanadalah sebuah kejahatan kemanusiaan yang sangat menyakitkan. Tidakada penderitaan batin yang lebih memerih kan dibanding pelaranganterhadap seorang beriman untuk menganut keyakinan batinnya yangia yakini merupakan jalan keselamatannya di dunia dan di akhiratnanti.Sebenar nya lah kebebasan berkeyakinan adalah berasal dari SangPencipta sendiri, dan sama sekali bukan pemberian Negara ataugolongan mayoritas. (Djohan Effendi, ”Surat Terbuka Untuk PresidenRI Bapak Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono”, Denpasar, 21 Juli 2005)* * *424 |MERAYAKAN KEBEBASAN BERAGAMA

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