My take on the Al Islam versus Catholic Church issue
First of all, I do not read Al Islam magazine (published by Utusan group), on a variety of reasons. Lets just say after a certain “Si Tora-Tora Jadian” took over the editorship of the magazine (and unceremoniously booted out a few years later), I just stopped reading it. The only Islamic magazine that I follow religiously (excuse the pun!) these days is Majalah i, published by Karangkraf.
That being said, I really wonder what the fuss is about, with regard to an article written two months ago by their reporters relating their experience at Catholic churches. I read the republished article at The Nut Graph and frankly, I don’t see anything that the reporter had done that (a) impede Catholics to worship their “god”, and/or (b) cause consternation and anxiety among the Catholic worshippers during their presence at those churches. In fact, I would say that it is a brave example of investigative journalism, although the journalists’ motives towards this end may be suspect. Its not like the Christian missionaries had not done this to Muslims before, albeit with even more sinister motives. The journalists came to the church expecting Muslims to be apostatised and they came back reporting that this was not true. The end.
So again, what is this fuss about?