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In Indonesia, the struggle within Islam - -

By Tom McCawley

from the October 05, 2005 edition

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MOURNING: A boy plays near roses and candles that were offered for victims of the Oct. 2 bomb attacks in Bali. The attacks killed at least 26 people and wounded more than 100.
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In Indonesia, the struggle within Islam
| Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

 
Here in the world's largest Muslim country a war of ideas within Islam is playing out on an unlikely stage: a bohemian arts community in a crowded Jakarta side street. The patrons of the Utan Kayu Theater, including some of Indonesia's leading novelists and writers, normally gather to discuss such topics as avant-garde art or prewar Russian cinema.

But in recent weeks, a fierce debate over how Muslims should be allowed to worship, marry, and even think has caught the theater in its crossfire. Hard-line Muslim groups have been threatening to evict the Liberal Islam Network, a small group of intellectuals known as JIL, from their offices in the theater complex by the beginning of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan - Wednesday.

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