Identifying Judaism is so difficult for us. Term of Judaism can be
referred to religion, ethnicity or political movement. In Indonesia, term of
Judaism is more political than religious term. For instance, many Muslims in
Indonesia worried about the conspiracy for destroying Islam (Bruinessen : no
year. p.2).
This worrying usually arose from the propaganda from radical movement of
Indonesia. They tend to spread that the root of decadency in Islamic world is
based on the Jewish conspiracy, called Zionist. This is really wrong judgment
because Judaism is different from Zionism. Many people just believe that
Judaism and Zionism are similar. Of course, this blind judgment disserves
Judaism at all. Many Jewish people recognize that they are Jews, but they are
not Zionist.
Of course, our duty now is how to make a better understanding about
Judaism. There is no doubt that Zionism and Judaism are interesting term for
getting much attention of Indonesian Muslim. It will be difficult because the
idea of simplify that all Jews are Zionist is very strong here.
Questions:
1.
Why does the Conspiracy theory always relate to
Jews?
2.
How strong the identity of Judaism among those
three categories, Judaism as religion, as ethnicity, or as Political movement?
3.
Does religious teaching of Judaism give much
color of the interpretation of Zionism? How far?? Is it real religious movement
or just political movement?
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