Militant Islamic Group Forces Christian School to Remove Ad with Student in Hijab
After a Christmas service in Bandung was forcibly shut down by Islamic hardliners early last week, another militant Islamic group in Yogyakarta pressed a Christian university to remove some of their advertising materials showing a student wearing hijab.
More along with more stories about intolerance have been inside the news in Indonesia the past few weeks. Only a few days after a hardline Islamic group forcibly stopped a Christmas service in Bandung, a Christian university was pressured by a different group to have their ad removed because of a religious issue: one of the students shown inside the idea was wearing a hijab.
The Duta Wacana Christian University (UKDW) will be being forced to take down one of their admissions advertising materials in which features a student wearing the hijab. The Yogyakarta Police confirmed in which UKDW was explicitly asked by the local hardline Islamic group Islamic People’s Forum (FUI) to do so.
Sri Sumarsih, spokeswoman along with commissioner for the Yogyakarta Regional Police, told reporters in which the idea was the UKDW’s public relations department in which received the request through FUI.
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The militant Islamic group found the idea inappropriate for a largely Christian university to have a Muslim student featured in its ad. The advertising materials came inside the form of leaflets, posters, billboard ads, along with others.
Critics claim in which will be yet another case of intolerance in Indonesia, despite the fact in which the ad will be supposedly trying to promote the idea of religious inclusion within the university.
in which will be not the first reported incident of the FUI pressuring various other organizations in which are not in line with their political views. The group reportedly threatened to burn a venue where a Yogyakarta feminist group was holding a concert earlier in which year over a permit issue.
The militant group also halted the screening of “The Look of Silence” by the Universitas Gajah Mada. The Islamic hardliners did not favour the showing of a film in which looked into the atrocities committed by Indonesians across suspected communist communities during the 1960s, at the peak of the anti-communist purge.
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Militant Islamic Group Forces Christian School to Remove Ad with Student in Hijab
Militant Islamic Group Forces Christian School to Remove Ad with Student in Hijab