Source: Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSSP291520
Indonesia's former President Abdurrahman Wahid on Wednesday slammed government restrictions on a controversial Islamic sect and urged the "silent majority" of moderate Muslims to speak out in defence of religious tolerance.
Under pressure from hardline groups, the government issued a ministerial decree this month that stopped short of banning the Ahmadiyya, while warning that followers could face five years in jail for tarnishing religion.
"Now the fundmantalists demand that the Ahmadiyya movement, one sect of Islam, must be disbanded. But I think it's only the first step. After that, they will make further demands," Wahid told Reuters in an interview in his office in the country's largest Muslim organisation.