Interfaith event canceled in face of threats

Bambang Muryanto, The Jakarta Post, Yogyakarta | Headlines | Tue, December 15 2015, 6:18 PM

An organization promoting interfaith dialogue has been forced to cancel an interfaith forum in Yogyakarta after the local branch of the Islamic People’s Forum (FUI) threatened to forcefully disperse attendees.

Ibnu Ghulam Tufail of the YPIC said the organization had learned of the threat after being notified by the management of the Indonesian Islamic School (PIRI) Foundation’s Yogyakarta branch, which initially agreed to lend the school’s compound as the venue for the event, slated for Dec. 19, a week before the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad, or Maulid Nabi, and Christmas.

The school’s management, according to Ibnu, said that the FUI had threatened to attack the event, arguing that it was against Islamic teaching.

The management, he added, had finally decided to retract their permission for the event to be held on the school’s grounds.

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