FREEDOM AND RIGHTS OF MINORITIES: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF JIHADIST IDEOLOGICAL MISINTERPRETATIONS IN INDONESIA
Keywords:
jihadist ideological, qur’an interpretation, caliphate, extrimist groupAbstract
For decades, the Westerns view of Islam in general, sees it as purely extrimist, intolerant, and violent doctrine. They, in some extend, belief that Islam is more conservative and fanatics than the other religions. It can be understood that Islam believers rely on the interpretations of governing documents (Al Qur’an) that came back many centuries ago. The differences of society from the time that Qur’an first writing to nowadays, arises more conservative groups that tries to interpret Qur’an in their own way. The numerous interpret tries to fits both their life experiences and the Qur’an itself. The wrong interpert of Qur’an can be dangerous, namely to promote murder, bombing and terror in the name of Islam by some extrimist group, such as ISIS/IS and al-Qaeda militants. The terror of this extrimist group based on their interpretation of the Qur’an and Hadiths (collection of reports of the teaching of Prophet Muhammad). Even there were some claim that ISIS/IS have been defeated, the narrative to resurrecting “islamic caliphate” continous among its followers and other like-minded violent jihadist. This effort is based on the claim that it is an integral part of the Islamic faith related to tawhid (the doctrine of Divine University). The other ideological narrative is based on the Ghazwatul Hind narrative, the final apocalyptic war that would be taking place in India). This narrative came from South Asia, and attracted some Indonesian jihadist groups. Namely Jemaah Islamiyah (JII) has redefined the Ghazwatul Hind-related to hadits to include Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia.According to this narrative, the rewards of waging jihad in those areas are equivalent to foghting against Dajjal. Radical understanding of Islamic Caliphate deeply pervading to some of extrimist group, eventhough actually, caliphate is not the only core element of Islamic creed. Muslims, specially to te extrimist groups in Indonesia, should fix their sights on more crucial Islamic value such as education, economic advancement, and political stability.
Keywords: jihadist ideological, qur’an interpretation, caliphate, extrimist group.
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