Multicultural and Universal Freedom Awareness Effort to Reduce Polarization of Islamic Understanding Between the Ahmadiyaa and Mainstream Islam in Indonesia

Abstract

Ahmadiyya is one stream of Islam, as well as other groups in Indonesia who preach faith and fought on the basis of the figure of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as a prophet and apostle who did not take the Shari'a. Such faith is sustained by Ahmadiyya despite numerous attacks both of science and the authenticity of the sources and well referenced history written by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad himself and the lawyers are pros and sympathy for him. Understandable that as a Islamic minority Ahmadiyya  is the ideology that will never be accepted by the Sunni, even if it is removed from the diversity of Islamic schools in Indonesia. As a minority group, in addition to trying to prosecute his understanding, more severe than it is to maintain its existence and commitment of followers to practice their faith in the midst of the mainstream Islamic circles (Muhammadiyah [Modern Islamic Movement], NU [Islamic traditional Movement], Persis [Islamic organization], and so on) in Indonesia.

Keywords: Ahmadiyaa, Mainstream Islam, Polarization