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![]() Ikhwan Web News Digest 09-04-09
A series of deadly attacks in Indonesia’s troubled Papua province have overshadowed voting in the country’s parliamentary elections.
Today’s parliamentary election is only the third democratic vote since the autocratic Suharto regime was pushed from power in 1998 amid student protests. The three week campaign period leading up to the vote was billed as a celebration of the Indonesia’s young democracy, with towns and cities decked in colourful flags of the 38 competing parties.
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Violence overshadows Indonesia poll A series of deadly attacks in Indonesia’s troubled Papua province have overshadowed voting in the country’s parliamentary elections. G20 police assault on Ian TomlinsonAn independent probe is looking into the death of a man who died of a heart attack soon after being pushed to the ground by a police officer during the G20 protests in London.
Many people always ask me what Islam got to do with democracy? And many believe that any Islamic system has to be a theocratic, dictator system based on monarchy but Reading Islam Team shed light on the relationship between Islam and democracy. The article also represents what distinguishes Islamic democracy from Western democracy. It stresses out that Western democracy is based on the concept of popular sovereignty, while Islamic democracy rests on the principle of popular khilafah, mixing religious devotion with a notion of democracy and citizenship. In Western democracy, the people are sovereign; in Islam sovereignty is vested in Allah and the people are His caliphs or representatives. The laws given by Allah through His Prophet (Shari ‘ah) are to be regarded as constitutional principles that should not be violated. This definition and concept accepted by Muslims worldwide proves that Muslims do not need the tailored system presented by western countries and their attempts to force Muslims into accepting a version of democracy that is alien to the Muslim nation. |
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