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Originally Posted by Airbornelawyer
There was a President of Indonesia that has been touted as a moderate Islamist, whom you may have partially mixed up with Mahathir. That would be Abdurrahman Wahid, President of Indonesia from 1999 to 2001, founder of the moderate Islamist National Awakening Party and former leader of the Nahdlatul Ulama, the main organization of Muslim clerics in Indonesia. He has a website with extensive English-language commentary on various issues including religion and politics, if you want to get a flavor of where he stands: http://www.gusdur.net/english/index.php |
Abdurrahman Wahid on Indonesian politics:
"Indonesian politics is like a tree full of monkeys. They are all on different limbs at different levels. Some are climbing up. Some are climbing down. The monkeys on the top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but a bunch of assholes."
http://www.gusdur.net/english/index....d=28&Itemid=64