Not all Muslims celebrated Idul Fitri with jubilance and excitement. For members of the Ahmadiyah minority sect, this year’s celebration is marked by heartache and worry.
Firdaus Mubarik, a spokesman for the Indonesian Ahmadiyah Congregation (JAI), told the Jakarta Globe on Wednesday that approximately 600 Ahmadis in Sukadana village in West Java’s Cianjur district had been banned from using their mosque for prayers.
“Ahmadiyah followers in Sukadana village were told by the village chief that they may not use their own mosque to carry a Idul Fitri prayer in case of a attainable attack by the residents,” Firdaus said.
“For us, this is often a threat.”
Instead, Firdaus said the cluster had to carry its prayers within an Ahmadiyah Islamic faculty as guards from Cianjur kept watch.
Similar threats were additionally aired against Ahmadis in Makassar, who were recently attacked by assailants from the hardline Islamic Defenders Front (FPI).
“Even though our mosque was broken by the FPI on August thirteen, thank God we have a tendency to may hold Idul Fitri prayers in our own mosque peacefully this morning wthout any disturbance,” Irza Rasid, an Ahmadi from Makassar, told the world.
“Unfortunately, we have a tendency to couldn't keep longer to assemble and celebrate Idul Fitri among the Ahmadiyah congregation as a result of we have a tendency to failed to wish the FPI to return and attack us,” he added.
Last month, FPI members attacked the Makassar workplace of the JAI, where Ahmadis had planned at hand out food and groceries to the encompassing community.
“The FPI typically conducts raids on Ahmadiyah activities with none coordination with the police. Not solely did they perform raids, however additionally threats and intimidation towards us.” Irza said. “It has to be understood that we have a tendency to don't wish to fight back ... as a result of we've got our own motto, that is love for all, hatred for none.”
The JAI has recorded over one hundred sixty cases of violence against Ahmadiyah communities within the last ten years.
In Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara, Ahmadis are living in an exceedingly rundown shelter for nearly six years once their village was attacked and ransacked by mainstream Muslim teams.
“We have lost our land, we've got lost our homes. Some have even lost their lives, however we have a tendency to are thankful for we've got you, Allah,” Ahmadi youngsters sang once the community performed their Idul Fitri prayer on Wednesday.
Many cried as some fifty youngsters sang the song remembering the violence that drove them faraway from one village to consequent, destroying each possession that they owned.
More than 250 Ahmadis took half within the prayer, occupying a small space within the middle of the abandoned Transito building. The ceiling showed signs of collapsing on to the congregation, that had to use makeshift prayer mats made of recycled newspapers and torn sheets of plastic.
Community members ready a straightforward chicken stew and rice cake.
“I recognize they're nothing fancy, however they job my memory of home,” fifty eight year-old Siti Kalsum said.
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