Apakah di negeri kita bisa kejadian suatu bab dalam kehidupan manusia yang
bisa mengaburkan cinta kasih antara sesama dua mahluk Tuhan, tapi terbentur
oleh aturannya "Tuhan" sendiri yang dipraktek-kan didunia ini.
Bacalah reportase dibawah ini. Betapa absurdnya aspek agama itu apabila di
terapkan secara rigid dan memperlakukan agama itu sebagai suatu "axioma" yang
tidak bisa di-tawar2 dalam kehidupan se-hari2.
Bahkan dua mahluk Tuhan, sama2 ciptaan Tuhan tapi ber-"baju" (agama) lain
bisa menimbulkan kerincuan yang bisa2 membahayakan jiwa yang bersangkutan.
Kadang2 aku ini, aku yang bisa di bilang seorang atheis, sering
merenungkan..........kenapa manusia2 , para fundamentalis, para agama-ist yang
punya keyakinan mengikuti agamanya secara harafiah, para agamais
konservatip.....apa dengan tindakan2 mereka ini bisa menyenangkan junjungannya,
Tuhan-nya? Aku punya pendirian Tuhan itu tidak perlu sanjungan2, Tuhan adalah
maha kuasa, Tuhan tidak perlu di-bela dengan perbuatan2 yang menyakiti orang
lain. Boro2 Tuhan itu senang dengan perilaku para pendukungnya yang
fundamentalis......aku kira Tuhan hanya geleng2 kepala, Dia jadi kusut
memikirkan anak2 ciptaan-nya yang nggladrah......mungkin Dia hanya ter-senyum
sedih melihat ciptaannya begitu dungu dan gobloknya mengatur dirinya sendiri.
Aku kira sebagai manusia, aturlah perilaku mu sebaik mungkin, patuhi hukum
tata etis pergaulan antar manusia, saling menguntungkan.
Tidak perlu kita berbuat sesuatu yang hanya membuat Tuhan itu jadi malu
terhadap Diri-nya sendiri karena Dia telah menciptakan manusia yang goblok dan
dungu!
Dibawah ini adalah contoh sebuah cerita dimana cinta kasih antar dua mahluk
ciptaan Tuhan mengalami rintangan bahkan bisa2 nantinya dibunuh hanya
karena.......dua manusia yang saling mengasihi...tapi beda agama......absurd,
simple as that!
Apa nantinya di Indonesia juga akan kejadian semacam ini?
Cinta kasih antar manusia tidak terwujut karena gara2 agama yang nggladrah
ke-mana2. Tuhan sangat di permalukan dengan prilaku manusia2 yang ketelanjur
menggeluti agama secara harafiah.
Harry Adinegara
Once Muslim, Now Christian and Caught in the Courts
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug. 19 - From the scant personal details that can be
pieced together about Lina Joy, she converted from Islam to Christianity eight
years ago and since then has endured extraordinary hurdles in her desire to
marry the man in her life. She is now in hiding after death threats from
Islamic extremists, who accuse her of being an apostate.
Five years ago she started proceedings in the civil courts to seek the right
to marry her Christian fiancé and have children. Because she had renounced her
Muslim faith, Ms. Joy, 42, argued, Malaysia's Islamic Shariah courts, which
control such matters as marriage, property and divorce, did not have
jurisdiction over her.
In a series of decisions, the civil courts ruled against her. Then, last
month, her lawyer, Benjamin Dawson, appeared before Malaysia's highest court,
the Court of Appeals, to argue that Ms. Joy's conversion be considered a right
protected under the Constitution, not a religious matter for the Shariah
courts.
"She's trying to live her life with someone she loves," Mr. Dawson said in an
interview.
Threats against Ms. Joy had become so insistent, and the passions over her
conversion so inflamed, he had concluded there was no room for her and her
fiancé in Malaysia. The most likely solution, he said, was for her to emigrate.
For Malaysia, which considers itself a moderate and modern Muslim country
with a tolerance for its multiple religions and ethnic groups of Malays,
Indians and Chinese, the case has kicked up a firestorm that goes to the very
heart of who is a Malay, and what is Malaysia.
Her case has heightened a searing battle that has included street protests
and death threats between groups advocating a secular interpretation of the
Constitution, and Islamic groups that contend the Shariah courts should have
supremacy in many matters.
Some see the rulings against Ms. Joy as a sign of increasing Islamization,
and of the pressures felt by the government of Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi
as it tries to respond to the opposition Islamic party, Parti Islam Semalaysia.
About 60 percent of Malaysia's 26 million people are Muslim, 20 percent are
Buddhist, nearly 10 percent are Christian and 6 percent Hindu.
Malaysia has powerful Islamic Affairs Departments in its 13 states and in the
capital district around Kuala Lumpur. The departments, a kind of parallel
bureaucracy to the state apparatus that were strengthened during the 22-year
rule of former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, run the Shariah courts.
"Malaysia is at a crossroads," Mr. Dawson said. "Do we go down the Islamic
road, or do we maintain the secular character of the federal constitution that
has been eroding in the last 10 years?"
In rulings in her case, civil courts said Malays could not renounce Islam
because the Constitution defined Malays to be Muslims.
They also ruled that a request to change her identity card from Muslim to
Christian had to be decided by the Shariah courts. There she would be
considered an apostate, and if she did not repent she surely would be sentenced
to several years in an Islamic center for rehabilitation.
Mr. Dawson said Ms. Joy had been interested in Roman Catholicism since 1990
and was baptized in 1998 at Our Lady of Fatima Church in Kuala Lumpur. Because
she considered herself a Christian, Ms. Joy did not believe the Shariah courts
applied to her. In an affidavit to a lower civil court in 2000, she said she
felt "more peace in my spirit and soul after having become a Christian."
Because of the death threats, including some calls to hunt her down, Mr.
Dawson said, he could not say where she was, and could not make her available
for an interview, even by telephone.
Similarly, her fiancé, whom Mr. Dawson referred to as Johnson, a Christian of
ethnic Indian background whom Ms. Joy met in 1990, had received death threats
and was not prepared to be interviewed.
Last month, Prime Minister Badawi appeared to side with the Islamists when he
ordered that forums organized around the country to discuss religious freedom
must stop. The forums, run by a group called Article 11, named after the
section of the Constitution that says Malaysians are free to choose their
religion, were disrupted on several occasions by Islamic protesters.
The chief organizer of the Article 11 forums, a well-known human rights
lawyer, Malik Imtiaz Sarwar, a Muslim, received a death threat this month that
was widely circulated by e-mail.
With the heading "Wanted Dead," the message featured a photograph of Mr.
Malik and said: "This is the face of the traitorous lawyer to Islam who
supports the Lina Joy apostasy case. Distribute to our friends so they can
recognize this traitor. If you find him dead by the side of the road, do not
help."
Mr. Malik, 36, who presented a brief in support of Ms. Joy to the Appeals
Court, said he was seeking police protection. "We must not confuse the crucial
distinction between a country in which the majority are Muslims, and is thus an
Islamic country, and a country in which the supreme law is the Shariah, an
Islamic state," Mr. Malik said.
Conversions of Muslims to Christianity are not common in Malaysia, though
most converts do not seek official approval for marriage and therefore do not
run into the obstacles Ms. Joy confronted. One 38-year-old convert, who said in
an interview at a Roman Catholic parish that he would provide only his
Christian names, Paul Michael, and not his surname, for fear of retribution,
described how he led a double life.
"Church members know us as who we are, and the outside world knows us as we
were," he said. He was fearful, he said, that if his conversion became public
the religious authorities would come after him, and he could be sentenced to a
religious rehabilitation camp.
One such place, hidden in the forest at Ulu Yam Baru, 20 miles outside the
capital, is ringed like a prison by barbed wire, with dormitories protected by
a second ring of barbed wire. Outside a sign says, "House of Faith," and inside
the inmates spend much of their time studying Islam.
Paul Michael said he and other former Muslims moved from church to church for
services to avoid detection. They call themselves "M.M.B.B.," for Malay Muslim
Background Believers. "It's a group of Malays who are no longer Muslims," he
said.
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