Harry Sufehmi asked. Maybe yes and maybe not, I think the jury still out on that, but the anonymous owner does has strong negative opinions against Indonesian Muslims or all muslims for that matter, but he/she is posting it own his/hers own blog and nobody forced us to read it, plus the blog has comment section that disagree parties can use. Btw, Harry should know that he's not suppose to use a space before the question mark hehe :)
spasi..spasi..spasi..spasi..
akhirnya, ketahuan juga siapa Polisi EYD itu sebenarnya :)
anyway, salah satu masalahnya adalah pada nama blognya (Indonesia), padahal tidak mewakili Indonesia.
saya pribadi agak keberatan dengan nama-nama blog yang (seperti) mewakili suatu komunitas, padahal sebetulnya tidak.
takutnya misleading.
kalau blog gua kan jelas, harry.sufehmi.com, he he. judulnya juga "thoughts, rants, etc" :) halah isinya pasti cuma curhatnya si harry nih, lewat...
jadi, saya mengusulkan kepada patung, kalaupun mau pakai nama Indonesia juga, jangan berisi opini. tapi reporting saja. supaya jadi lebih netral.
saya lihat beberapa postingnya sudah ada yang berupa reporting, walaupun yang berupa opini juga masih banyak.
Jadi?
Dear Enda, the site is not against "all" Muslims, that would be silly. I think it's pretty obvious which kinds of Muslims it is against, FPI, etc. Sometimes it just depends on my mood though.
Dear Harry, the site is called "Indonesia Matters". There are two possible meanings for this. 1. Indonesia is important. 2. Indonesia affairs/things.
The second one is slightly ungrammatical though I think, needs to be Indonesian Matters.
What that means is that the site is about Indonesia, that is why I use the word "indonesia" in the name. It does not mean that the site represents Indonesia or its people, that is ridiculous and would only make sense if I called it "Indonesia Speaks" or "The Voice of Indonesia" or something like that, but I didn't, I called it "Indonesia is important".
I frequented patung's website and commented on it a few times, sometimes disapprovingly. But really, whether patung's website is against Muslims or not, is a matter perspective. I tend to think organizations that employ threats of violence (you-know-who) to "defend Islam" is actually more damaging to Muslims's image than the website. Where's the outrage? By the way, if one is annoyed that the name of patung's website misrepresents its content, then he/she should also be furious at how some organizations misrepresent(or hijack) a religion by using the religion's name as if they are defending it.
Hi Patung,
Unfortunately, some of your posts are bordering on hate-speech.
An example - muslim radicalism in 2005
Even I would support closing down an illegal church which causes unrest to the community around it.
That makes me a radical muslim according to your post.
While communities in UK/USA who demanded an illegal mosque to be closed down are not (because, it's their law-protected rights)
With such great name (IndonesiaMatters.com), you can contribute so much to the Indonesian. I sincerely hope you will choose that path sometime in the near future.
Thanks.
harry, think you're being extra kind. Whatever you want to call it patung, it squawks like a duck, it walks like a duck. i'm guessing it's a duck.
it's a cheap ploy in misquoting out of context tidbits of other publications slanted for your own bias.
do enlighten me if you think you have anymore substance than that.
as for enda's previous comment on the fact that it is a personal blog - well, indeed it is - as for free to comment over there, patung can testify that he does censor on regular basis those who disagree.
you can do what you want man, it's the internet. to pretend to be something that it's not, well, that's just puny.
it's always interesting too, to note that wherever anybody mention indonesia matters' slanted misrepresentation, some anons appears from the ether to present a somewhat subjective opinions. you must be pretty popular for a mannequin.