An extreme and perverse ideology in the minds of fanatics is what directly threatens us (specifically, Wahhabi/Salafi ideology--a minority fundamentalist religious cult fueled by petrodollars). Yet underlying, enabling and exacerbating this threat of religious extremism is a global crisis of misunderstanding.

The Indonesian Islamic Council (MUI) issued several fatwa that were seen by many religious leaders as unwise, divisive and hegemonic in nature.

Religious freedom in Indonesia is now under serious threat. On one hand we see a strong wave of Islamization as manifested by the formalization of Islamic law in several regions.