Christmas Greeting from Indonesian Muslim

Posted on September 1, 2007

On this special day for all Christian brothers and sister, I, a Muslim, would like to greet you all A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2006

If peace and love prevail among all different religious followers, the world will become one. Humanity will be much better. Prosperity and fraternity among mankind will be the talk of our daily life.

There are a few segment and fraction of all religious followers who want to make the faith differences as a big issue, making the always-want-to-be-close instinct of human species evaporates.

This kind of tendencies should not be given any chance to grow as it is the evil in itself. Let any religious preference be a personal choice without interfering. Any single person knows what is best for him/her.

Again, Merry Christmas. Wish you all a prosperous life and peaceful heart in years to come.

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Comment by drt

2007-12-26 18:53:14

Peace on Earth, bung. The other day, while blogwalking at blog-indonesia.com, I was so surprised to read all the negative comments concerning Christmas Greeting, which were contrary to your posting here. Wish to see and hear more moderate voices like this. Thanks.

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Comment by Fatih

2007-12-27 00:02:51

.. while blogwalking at blog-indonesia.com, I was so surprised to read all the negative comments concerning Christmas Greeting

All communities, be it of religious preference or nation based are supposed to have their own exreme side. Though they are usually of a small portion of any community, they used to speak louder and thus sound a bit more “crowdy”

If you blogwalk to some English speaking blog run by Americans or infact anyone with Western mindset, you’d find many of those extreme side of the aisle who think negatively of Islam and Muslim.

If we think that we are on a moderate side we should see the picture from the prism of moderate landscape–irrespective of our religious or cultural preferences. Hence, we should blame–if we should do the blame game–all the extremist side either they’re at the same religious community with us or not.

Again, the ’shared values’ should be based on moderation of attitude, not on shared religion or nation. if you know what I mean.

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