Weleh.. weleh..
Masih ada aja justifikasi kayak begini.
Susah banget sih mengamini kalau FPI memang hobinya
mengobrak-abrik. Heran...
--- A Nizami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Assalamu'alaikum wr wb,
>
> Itu kasusnya adalah rumah biasa yang kemudian
> dijadikan gereja tanpa izin di tengah2 penduduk yang
> mayoritasnya Islam.
> Hingga akhirnya timbul keributan. Oleh karena itulah
> dibuat SKB 3 Menteri untuk mengatur itu.
>
> Jangankan di Indonesia, di Eropa saja yang katanya
> bebas, ummat Islam juga tidak bisa sembarangan
> mendirikan masjid tanpa izin. Sebagai contoh, di
> Athena sama sekali tidak ada masjid karena mayoritas
> penduduk tersebut menentang pendirian masjid.
> Akibatnya ummat Islam di sana (sebagian penduduk
> lokal
> dan staf kedubes negara Islam) tak bisa beribadah di
> masjid.
>
> Di AS juga muslim tidak bisa sembarangan membuat
> masjid atau pun kuburan. Harus ada izin.
>
> Intinya izin. Kalau gereja yang sudah berizin
> seperti
> gereja Santa, dsb, mana ada ormas Islam yang mau
> menggerebek? Bukankah di Bandung ada berpuluh-puluh
> gereja yang berdiri dengan aman tanpa gangguan?
>
> Greek mosque plans cause friction
>
>
> By Richard Galpin
> BBC, Athens
>
>
> The small Greek town of Peania nestles in the hills
> north of the capital, Athens, close to the new
> international airport.
> It is an unremarkable place, and an air of boredom
> hangs over the central square.
>
>
> Athens has had no mosque since the early 19th
> Century
> But not for much longer.
>
> If the Greek Government has its way, the town will
> become the focus for tens of thousands of Muslims
> living in the capital with the construction of the
> first proper mosque in the Athens area for almost
> 200
> years.
>
> The Foreign Ministry is pushing hard for a large
> mosque and Islamic cultural centre to be built
> before
> the Olympics get under way in just over a year's
> time.
>
>
> It's a very bad situation, they are violating our
> human rights - we must have a right to practise our
> religion and it must be in a proper mosque
>
> Mohammed Ashad
> Pakistani immigrant
> More than 30,000 square metres of land have been set
> aside for the buildings which will be paid for by
> Saudi Arabia at a cost estimated at millions of
> dollars.
>
> The Greek Government is acting partly out of shame,
> particularly with the approach of the Olympic games
> which are already putting the country under the
> international spotlight.
>
> "Athens is the only capital in the European Union
> without a mosque," Foreign Minister George
> Papandreou
> admitted in a recent statement.
>
> Makeshift mosques
>
> It is an extraordinary fact that not a single mosque
> has operated officially in the capital or its
> immediate surroundings since Greece gained its
> independence from the Muslim Ottoman empire in the
> early 19th Century.
> Mosques have been set up in apartment blocks
>
> The growing number of Muslim immigrants in Athens
> from
> Albania, South Asia, Africa and the Middle-East pray
> at so-called "underground" mosques which are not
> properly licensed.
>
> Dozens of these makeshift mosques have been set up
> in
> the capital in apartments, shops and garages.
>
> "It's a very bad situation, they are violating our
> human rights," says Mohammed Ashad, a Pakistani
> immigrant who has lived in Greece for six years. "We
> must have a right to practise our religion and it
> must
> be in a proper mosque."
>
> Mohammed was speaking after completing his prayers
> at
> an underground mosque in the city centre.
>
> It is in a dingy, run-down apartment block with a
> staircase which stinks of urine.
>
> The room which masquerades as a library, is too
> small
> for the busiest prayer-time of the week on Fridays
> when people spill out into the hall and down the
> stairs.
>
> "It's very strange because Greece is inside the
> European Union and will be in the centre of Europe
> with the inclusion of 10 more countries," says
> Mohammed, "and yet there's no official mosque."
>
> Plan rejected
>
> Ambassadors representing Arab countries have been
> trying to persuade the Greek Government to build a
> proper mosque for almost 30 years. They are now
> certain they have succeeded.
>
> Almost 100% of the population here is opposed to
> the
> mosque - we were never asked if we wanted it and
> this
> region is not suitable
>
> Paraskevas Papakostopoulos
> Mayor of Peania
> "All the preparations are complete, " says Abdullah
> Abdullah, the Palestinian representative in Athens.
> "The Greek Government gave its approval, the Arab
> side
> is ready for the construction and the Greek church
> has
> given its blessing."
>
> But back in the town of Peania where the mosque is
> to
> be built there is fury amongst the local population.
>
>
> The town council has rejected the plan and mayor
> Paraskevas Papakostopoulos has appealed to the
> courts
> to block the building of the mosque, arguing it is
> illegal to use the land for construction.
>
> "Almost 100% of the population here is opposed to
> the
> mosque," he says. "We were never asked if we wanted
> it
> and this region is not suitable."
>
> Historic fear
>
> The mayor is particularly concerned that the mosque
> will be seen by visitors as they land at Athens
> airport.
>
> "This is a problem for us as the first impression
> visitors will have will be something not
> representative of Greek culture. They will feel they
> have arrived in a Muslim country."
>
> Officially the Greek Orthodox Church, which
> dominates
> the country's religious life, has said it does not
> oppose the new mosque.
>
> But amongst the clergy in Peania there is a very
> different view.
>
> "I cannot conceive of this mosque being built here,"
> says parish priest Father Antonios Milakis. "At the
> Islamic centre they will train and ordain Muslims
> and
> they will try to convert people of other faiths."
>
> It seems this fear of Islam is rooted in history.
>
> "Greece and the Greeks link Islam or Muslims with
> the
> Turkish occupation of the country [which lasted] for
> centuries and this resentment is still there," says
> Abdullah Abdullah.
>
> But ironically even the Muslims themselves are
> opposed
> to the mosque being built in Peania.
>
>
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