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Hasyim suggests Islamic state as political movement

NU Online  ·  Selasa, 5 September 2006 | 11:06 WIB

Jakarta, NU Online
General Chairman of the Central Board of Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU), KH Hasyim Muzadi called for nahdliyin (NU followers) to be aware of the idea of Islamic state (khilafah Islamiyah) as driven by radical Islamic groups. He suggested that the idea is not a religious movement but called as a political movement.

“Islamic state is absolutely a political movement, not religious one for it strongly focuses on political aspects than religious ones (ubudiyyah). What it focuses is that the system of governance, not on how to establish such madrasa (schools), mosques, and create people’s prosperity, and so on,” said Hasyim while meeting figures of Preaching Institution of Nahdlatul Ulama (LDNU) at the PBNU Building, Jalan Kramat Raya 164 Jakarta, Tuesday (5/9).

<>He asserted that the governance system and its leadership system, as mentioned in the concept of Islamic state should be based on the system as implemented in every country. 

At the same time, the leader of Islamic Boarding School of Al-Hikam cited that the mushrooming radical Islamic groups and their movements had no such comfortable and favorable place especially in European and Middle East countries. 

“In Europe, Middle East (countries) such as Jordan and Syria, they (radical Islamic groups) had no place. But in Indonesia, they can survive and increasingly come into existence,” Hasyim said. (rif)