Religious intolerance still at red-alert level, group says

Most Indonesian Muslims are moderate. Can they protect pluralism amid rising signs of religious intolerance?

By Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata and Elisabeth Oktofani for Khabar Southeast Asia in Jakarta

February 13, 2013

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- Josh
  
  February 12, 2014 @ 12:02:52AM
- The FPI like to provoke, their actions are anarchic, they love to conduct sweepings, they commit violence in the name of Allah SWT, the FPI are thugs cloaked in religion.
- diloidsinatra
  
  February 21, 2013 @ 10:02:22AM
- If we destroy FPI we will have religious harmony. If FPI existed in West Borneo we guarantee it is easy to find heart to be chop.

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