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I watched Traitor a few days ago and must admit I’m impressed. It seems Hollywood managed to upgrade their perspective about Islam –which seldom happens.

Traitor is what we can call a post-9/11 movie. We have muslims, a terrorist group, and FBI trying to stop a massive suicide attacks on US soil.

Very Hollywood-ish, heh?

But it’s different from…

Where to find muslim expats community in Jakarta?

Recently I wrote an article about Rahmania Foundation in Karet, Central Jakarta. They have a weekly gathering, on Thursdays after maghrib prayer, for english-speaking people wish to learn the Quran.

The gathering was named ‘English Quranic Studies’, and perhaps one of the very few available gatherings for muslim expats in…

Indonesia Cleric’s Council, Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) will likely to issue a fatwa against smoking, or make it HARAM within Islam.

The issue surfaced (again) as MUI prepares their routine meeting forum, bahtsul masail, which will be held next October.

The cleric’s forum hasn’t even started yet but the tension already began. Last week in Jember, East Java,…