Posted on 08/30/2021 7:28:25 PM PDT by marshmallow
The announcement was made after Vice President Kiai Hajj Ma'ruf Amin visits the Cathedral of St Mary of the Assumption. The gesture is highly symbolic since Amin once led the Indonesian Council of Ulema. All this is part of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's plan to promote religious tolerance and marginalise extremist views.
Jakarta (AsiaNews) – In September, the Great Istiqlal Mosque and the Cathedral of St Mary of the Assumption will be connected by an underground tunnel. The two places of worship are located next to each other in the Indonesian capital.
On Friday, Indonesian Vice President Kiai Hajj Ma'ruf Amin visited the tunnel and then entered the cathedral compound along with Archbishop Card Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo of Jakarta.
Minister of Public Works and Public Housing Minister Basuki Hadimulyono and Istiqlal Mosque Grand Imam Nasaruddin Umar were present at the event.
For Christian Indonesians, the vice president’s visit is more than a photo op or a technical inspection. Until 2017, Amin was president of the Council of Ulama of Indonesia and used its influence in political issues in the past.
For instance, he criticised and then had Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama dismissed for blasphemy.
Last Thursday’s visit is an example of Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo’s desire to promote religious tolerance and marginalise extremist views.
In 2017 his government dissolved and banned extremist Islamic groups, including the Islamic Defence Front and Hizb ut-Tahrir, the Islamic Liberation Party.
“This hub represents not only a symbol of good relations between different religious communities, but also promotes tolerance and peace among all Indonesians,” Amin said.
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There’s no way anything could go wrong here.
Traditional Muslims seek 14 year old girls for marriage and the Roman Catholic church has a problem with institutional pedophilia.
What could possibly go wrong?
Allahwahoo Whackbar!
I can’t figure out what the point of a tunnel is.
If anyone wants to go to either place, can’t they just walk through the front door?
A tunnel suggests something surreptitious of which one might be ashamed...
They can use the tunnels for swapping girls for boys?
They can use the tunnels for swapping girls for boys?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Islam is a religion of conquest.
I expect that the so called marital culture of Islam will attract the church peds to submit to Allah......and then maybe we will be rid of the peds?
Or perhaps the tunnel will be used to eliminate the church infidels and kaffirs, inshallah.
England has its Chunnel.
Indonesia has its Funnel.
Indonesia is mostly Muslim and they stoop to conquer.
Nothing good will come of this.
Probably the Church people were too timid to say ‘Heck No!”
These things are why i am no longer a catholic..its not a church..its a circus.
When it comes to Afghanistan there is a refusal not only by the media and the so called (in name only) democratic party but by Christian leaders like Pope Francis to approach exposing the Taliban for it being a theocracy following the sharia creed which denies free will and ridicule their claim they are authorized by Our Creator to execute non believers. and instead brags about working with them.
If that exposure was explored and the emphasis was placed on Our Savior’s activities bringing in the New Covenant there would be more conversioms.
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