Wednesday, 10 August 2011

Saudiphobia in Indonesia


[JAKARTA, INDONESIA—As leader of Indonesia’s — and the world’s — largest Muslim organization, Said Aqil Siraj used to get pelted with angry emails and text messages whenever he questioned Saudi Arabia’s rigid, ultra-puritanical take on Islam.

But the often menacing messages recently stopped — cut off by a single stroke from a Saudi executioner’s sword to the neck of an Indonesian maid in Mecca.]

More on the Saudiphobia at "The Star"