Eradicating Religious Radicalism from the Schools

The puritan and radical Wahhabi group continues to establish Islamic boarding schools (pesantren); they founded no less than a dozen Wahhabi pesantren in Indonesia. Like the Wahhabi schools in Saudi Arabia, the Wahhabi pesantrens in Indonesia promote similar doctrines. They call people who adopt non-Wahhabi teaching as infidels (kafir) and polytheist (musyrik). Furthermore, if the socio-political environment is favorable, they do not hesitate to use violence in order to change other Muslims’ conviction. The Wahhabis of Saudi Arabia has committed violence against other Muslims whom they considered as deviant. Beside of being cruel to non-Muslims, the Wahhabis are also harsh upon the non-Wahhabi Muslims.