Saudi beheading fuels backlash in Indonesia

JAKARTA, Indonesia — As leader of Indonesia's — and the world's — largest Muslim organization, Said Aqil Siraj used to get pelted with angry e-mails and text messages whenever he questioned Saudi Arabia's rigid, ultra-puritanical take on Islam.

But the often menacing messages recently stopped — cut off by a single stroke from a Saudi executioner's sword to the neck of an Indonesian maid in Mecca.

"Now I don't get sent anything," Siraj said. He is glad to be out of the firing line, at least for the moment, but is appalled that it took the beheading of a 54-year-old Indonesian grandmother to quiet abuse by supporters of Saudi-style Islam.

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Anthony Faiola 09 Aug, 2011

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