Sesuai dengan pengakuannya sendiri sebagai mana yang diberitakan koran The Jakarta Post di bawah ini, ternyata Gus Dur tidak diusir pada peristiwa Purwakarta seperti yang digembar-gemborkan sebelumnya. Saya ingin menggarisbawahi komentar Rektor UIN Prof Dr Ayzumardi Azra bahwa: “Gus Dur's comment on the Koran was baseless”, dan pendapatnya bahwa dia dapat mengerti bahwa “Muslims were angered by Gus Dur's comment.” Dan saya sangat setuju pendapat Prof Ayzumardi, bahwa kemarahan tersebut seharusnya tidak dinyatakan dengan kekerasan, yang dapat memancing tindak kekerasan balik dari para pendukung Gus Dur yang di kalangan sebagian besar akar rumput NU yang---suka tidak suka masih---sangat kuat dan punya prinsip yang meminjam Cak Nun: “right or wrong is my Gus Dur” Kalau masa FPI bentrok dengan masa Garda Bangsa dan Banser yang untung siapa? Yang tidak perlu dipertanyakan kalau hal tersebut terjadi merupakan tindakan yang memalukan dan semakin menampilkan wajah Islam yang distorted: suka tindak kekerasan. Yang juga tidak perlu dipertanyakan ialah bahwa memberikan komentar atau bereaksi berlebihan terhadap apa yang diomongin tokoh yang sudah beberapa kali terkena serangan stroke tersebut hanya membuang-buang waktu dan energi yang tidak perlu. Wassalam, H. Darwin Bahar St.Bandaro Kayo (63) ==================================================================== Gus Dur clarifies his Koran comment National News - May 29, 2006 The Jakarta Post, Jakarta http://www.thejakartapost.com/yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20060529.H02 During a talk show on Radio 68H on Saturday, former president Abdurahman "Gus Dur" Wahid clarified an earlier comment he made in which he described the Koran as the "most pornographic scripture". The comment has angered his critics, including conservative clerics and hard-line Islamist groups like the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) and the Indonesian Mujahidin Council (MMI). "The comment was part of four-part discussion. So we cannot isolate it from the entire discussion," Gur Dur said in explaining that the comment had been taken out of context. He said that whether someone viewed something as pornographic was entirely dependent on the person's point of view. "I had this friend, the son of a kyai (Islamic cleric), who told me that he was 'interested' in pregnant women. He told me he couldn't stop imagining how they got pregnant," Gus Dur said. "What Habib Riziq (FPI's leader) failed to do was ask me for clarification," he said. Azyumardi Azra, rector of the Jakarta State Institute of Islamic Studies, said Gus Dur's comment on the Koran was baseless. "I read the transcript of his talk show on Radio 68H. He was referring to a verse in the Koran that says children should obey their mother because she breast-fed them for two years. The verse mentions nothing about breasts, which might have been referred to by Gus Dur as pornographic," Azyumardi said. "There is no verse in the Koran that graphically discusses any subject that could be seen as pornographic. "I don't know if Gus Dur was joking or serious on the talk show," he said. Azyumardi said he could understand that some Muslims were angered by Gus Dur's comment, but he strongly condemned anyone who expressed their anger through violence. Gus Dur also clarified Saturday that he was not forced to leave the podium by FPI members during an interfaith discussion in Purwakarta on Tuesday. He said he left the discussion because he had another event in Jakarta to attend. (04)
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