Salute for You, Mr. Erdogan

The world got big news after a few days we only heard common and silly news about Israel and world leaders. The accident in world economic forum in Davos few days ago was a slap for some muslims leaders. Recep tayyip Erdogan, muslim prime minister from secular country, was doing a walk out after the panelist didn’t give him time to talk in a spat with Simon Perez. It was, I can say, fantastic news for us in the middle of silly news about Arabs leader and Israeli government. Time distribution in the forum was not fair; it seemed that the panelist gave more time to Simon Peres than Erdogan.

The disrespectful of the panelist and Peres shown us that the world has closed their eyes about what Israel had done in Palestine. Peres talked too much about Israel’s fantasy world that they are not the one who had to be blamed for the death of over 1500 civilians. On the other side, Erdogan had shown the world that Israel can be defeated and we can be arrogant too toward that pathetic Zionist. 

Many people especially in muslim world saluted him, even hamas leader gave him praises. Here is the transcript of the talk

Of course it’s became ironical, when most of leader from Muslim country afraid to bother Israel or even laugh with them, the leader from secular country did that in front of the other world’s leader. Erdogan attacked Perez with many facts that Israel is a barbarian constitute to their attack to Palestine. Only he, after Israeli’s attack, who talked explicitly about what the world had seen in Gaza. The funniest part was when erdogan walked to leave the forum, Secretary General of Arab League stood to shake his hand with a very confuse manner, but after that he back to sit. What we can see here is that Arabs are in dilemma. They are afraid of Israel, but on the other hand they are surprised by erdogan’s walk out. It’s of course is a slap for them. What role they have done in this problem, nothing, only curse but not did it explicitly just for a formality as a leader toward the problem in Palestine. Erdogan was also the one who ask the world to respect Hamas who won the election in Palestine. It’s Palestinian choice to leave the government to Hamas. Contradict with most of world leaders who blamed Hamas for Israeli’s attack.

As we know that so far only one muslim leader who is very controversial regard to the state of Israel (is it state??). Mahmud Ahmaddinejad is the only one who is brave to attack Israel explicitly about their corrupt in this world. Erdogan did that, although it’s probably just an emotional reaction, but he sure gave a good lesson for other muslim leaders. 

My opinion about Turkey was changing a lot after the accident. It was not a secular country which I see now, but a country in changing. Some people predict that the rise of Islam won’t come from Arab land but one of the places is Turkey. Under the rule of Erdogan and Abdullah gul, Turkey progresses a lot, but still religious issue became the one that is sensitive in this country although the new government comes from religious background. Some elements from secular party are worry about the influence of Islamic values brought by the new government. Erdogan is still working under the secular system, but he made some changes especially in education and economic. It has become one of powerful muslim country in the west especially and in the world generally.

The accident has shown the world that not all Muslim leaders are afraid and loyal to Israel and their alliance. Turkey has shown it explicitly in front of the world that they stand for Palestine. This should make the other muslim leader shy and realize that what Muslims world need is a brave and unity to beat all kuffar for the glory of Islam and for the peace of the world. It also has shown the world that Turkey is now developing to be a great power in international world.

Here is poem which landed Erdogan in jail.
“The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers...”

Pemboycotan yang dilematis

Masalah boycott produk2 israel memang dilematis. Kemarin saja saat saya membawa daftar produk yang harus diboikot, teman-teman ada yang ragu apakah dengan memboycot produk-produk tersebut akan berpengaruh terhadap Israel. Toh, kita hanya membeli nama dan keuntungan yang dihasilkan tidak akan masuk ke kantong mereka.Yang ada nanti malah perekonomian indonesia yang akan ambruk.

Pendapat orang boleh berbeda-beda, tetapi menurut saya cara ini adalah satu jalan paling mudah yang bisa kita tempuh untuk memberikan dukungan kita terhadap saudara-saudara kita di Palestina dan gaza pada umumnya. Kita mungkin hanya membeli nama, tapi uang yang digunakan untuk membeli nama tersebut yang telah membangun kekuatan Israel untuk menghancurkan Palestina. Uang yang kita keluarkan untuk membeli McD misalnya, adalah uang yang digunakan untuk menutup uang yang dikeluarkan oleh pemilik McD di Indonesia untuk membeli nama. Itu sama saja kita memberikan uang kita kepada para pendukung Israel.

Masalah boycott yang malah akan merugikan negara kita sendiri sbenarnya tidak seratus persen benar. Bagaimana tidak, dengan boycott akan memacu pertumbuhan ekonomi lokal. Masyarakat yang dulu lebih suka membeli produk-produk asing akan beralih menggunakan produk dalam negeri yang dipercaya. hal itu akan memacu masyarakat Indonesia untuk membuka lapangan usaha baru. Misalnya saja kosmetik, saat ini banyak wanita yang lebih suka menggunakan kosmetik produksi asing (termasuk saya,hehe), dengan adanya pemboycotan ini maka kita bisa beralih untuk mencoba kosmetik buatan dalam negeri. Dengan begitu produk dalam negeri juga bisa berjaya di Indonesia, begitu pula dengan perekonomian rakyat.

Hal itulah yang selama ini menjadi dilema beberapa orang untuk ikut dalam aksi boycott. Hal kecil seperti ini akan meruntuhkan israel sedikit demi sedikit jika kita bersatu untuk mendukung saudara kita yang bahkan di ytanahnya sendiri tidak dapat hidup damai. Tetapi, semua ini memang individual. Bagi yang percaya bahwa boycot merupakan jalan yang terbaik maka marilah sama2 kita boycot. Bila tidak, tidak masalah. Toh, manusia punya hak asasi untuk mengatur barang apa yang ingin dia gunakan.

Wallahualam bissawab.

Yes we can help...Boycott Israeli Products!!!

Again...again...I'm late to post

Let's see...I wanna talk about what had happened in the last 13 days. Holly land is being attackted, of course we know that. I has been 13 days and about 800 people died, the other 3000 injured. So far, nothing happened to help them inside their land. What do we wanna see? a massacre?another holocoust? We can do something, don't wait for the world leader to stand together against Israel. We can do ourselves. Pray to Allah everyday,and boycott every product which support Israel!!!

R We the Same in Religion?

Issue of religion in Indonesia is never ending. There are five religions which are accepted by the government. As far we live peacefully in this country, there is nothing that intervene each religion. We stand in our own belief but we do not forget that we live in a various society. We still work together and manage our society well. Most people in Indonesia are moslems and some of us are Christian, chatolic, Hindu, and budha. Beside that there are still many sect exist.

This is the problem then that we live in diversity. Some people now ask for pluralism, we are the same. Ya, of course we are the same. We are the same in every aspect of live because we are human. We have the same right and have the same needed to express our feelings, but there is one thing that make us difference, that is religion. Some people say that we shouldn’t make religion to separate us because all religions are the same. The question is whether all religions are really the same? This question is not only for only one side but also every people who have religion.

Of course, they are different and so the followers. We belief in one religion, it means that we belief that this religion is right and others are wrong. If we say that all religions are the same then why we have to choose? People choose their own belief and do their own business related to their own religion. Religion is related to our relationship to our creature and many people believe in different belief of God. We shouldn’t make this as a big problem as far we understand and respect each other. We shouldn’t intervene other people’s religion since we have different opinion related to God.

This problem is not only general issue of religion but also related to the way we pray. Sometime we still don’t aware that this problem is serious. Pray is the essence of our way to communicate with God. Each religion has different way of pray, we can’t say that this is the same and we can do other religion’s too. And for the holly day, of course it is different too. Some people now giving remark of happy holly day each other. This is ironic since we have different idea of religion and think that our religion is the best. This is not our business to celebrate other religion’s holly day.

Without this manner I think we still can live peacefully as far we understand that we are different in religion and this is true that we shouldn’t intervene other religion eventhough those things aren’t bad.