I smell Taqiyya

(Jakarta Post) - The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) on Sunday launched a book detailing its political platform and dismissing the idea it aimed at making Indonesia an Islamic state.

The Islamic party also rejects the idea of a secular state in the predominantly Muslim nation, it says in the 643-page book titled "Struggling for a Civil Society".

The book also says the PKS promotes a free market system, calling it the most reliable and efficient means to provide equality for all economic players, while also acknowledging it does not always guarantee the fulfillment of people's rights.

Muslim scholar Azyumardi Azra and Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, who both spoke at the launch, praised the PKS for the book.

Azyumardi, also deputy secretary to Vice President Jusuf Kalla, said the PKS envisioned a moderate nation with its leaders, seeking to rule the country with Islamic values, not sharia law.

He said the book would explain the PKS's stance on relations between Islam and the state to the public, which mostly misunderstood the PKS as a hard-line party.

I smell taqiyya and burning pants!! A political party that has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and supports hardline terrorists like Abu Bakr Ba'asyir will not stop until Shariah is imposed. They will exercise Islamic values and a free market economy but after a while say that it isn't working and the only answer to prosperity for all is Shariah Law. It will start in West Java and North Sumatera and spread to the rest of Indonesia. Like I said, I smell Taqiyya and burning pants!!!