"When Indonesia successfully campaigned for a seat on the 2019-2020 United Nations Security Council last year," writes Niuban Balachandran in the Jakarta Post, "it marketed itself as a true partner for world peace, and a 'bridge builder'."
Why then, Balachandran continues, "hasn't the world's largest Muslim-majority country not yet officially recognized the world's oldest Abrahamic and fifth largest religion, Judaism?"
Why indeed? And why would such a country be given a seat on the security council of a body devoted to representing all when in fact its leaders stubbornly refuse to do so? Not only does Indonesia not recognize Judaism as a religion, it does not even recognize Israel as a nation.
This whole scenario has always seemed very odd to me, especially the religion part; for if there were no Judaism, there would be no Islam, or Christianity either for that matter. What can they be thinking? We were grafted into the original tree, as the apostle Paul says, and with them partake of the root and fatness of the tree, for the branches bear not the root, but the root the branches.
If you deny the root, how can there have been branches?
It's kind of a no-brainer, right?
Why then, Balachandran continues, "hasn't the world's largest Muslim-majority country not yet officially recognized the world's oldest Abrahamic and fifth largest religion, Judaism?"
Why indeed? And why would such a country be given a seat on the security council of a body devoted to representing all when in fact its leaders stubbornly refuse to do so? Not only does Indonesia not recognize Judaism as a religion, it does not even recognize Israel as a nation.
This whole scenario has always seemed very odd to me, especially the religion part; for if there were no Judaism, there would be no Islam, or Christianity either for that matter. What can they be thinking? We were grafted into the original tree, as the apostle Paul says, and with them partake of the root and fatness of the tree, for the branches bear not the root, but the root the branches.
If you deny the root, how can there have been branches?
It's kind of a no-brainer, right?
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