Defending ‘Islamic Belief’ Against Discrimination: Religious Minority Group Discourse in Indonesia

Q3 Social Sciences

Muslim World Journal of Human Rights Pub Date : 2023-08-25 DOI:10.1515/mwjhr-2023-0004

A. Irawan, Andi Syurganda, Zul Afdal

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Abstract This paper employs Critical Discourse Analysis to examine resistance discourses as created by the Ahmadiyya followers – a self-defined sect of Islam – to argue against negative discourses undermining them in Indonesia. In some legal proclamations and statements delivered by state officials and the representatives of majority Muslims in the country, the followers of the sect, especially those affiliated to the JAI (Jemaat Ahmadiyya Indonesia) are excluded from Islamic community. By using Van Dijk’s ideological square, this study aims at identifying resistance discourses created by the JAI followers as the defence strategies to oppose negative discourses presenting them as the non-believers of Islam. The resistance discourses are apparent in both written and spoken texts, such as books, articles, speeches, and public debates created by the sect. The finding reveals that the JAI followers create discourses of victim, defender of Islam, imperialism, illegitimacy, and discourse of public deception using various discourse strategies namely victimization, scare tactics, positive attribution, quotation, power delegitimising and negative portraits of misbehaving.

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捍卫“伊斯兰信仰”不受歧视:印尼宗教少数群体话语

摘要本文运用批判性话语分析方法，考察了艾哈迈迪亚信徒——一个自我定义的伊斯兰教派——所创造的抵抗话语，以反对在印度尼西亚破坏他们的负面话语。在国家官员和该国多数穆斯林代表发表的一些法律公告和声明中，该教派的信徒，特别是隶属于JAI（印度尼西亚祈祷团）的信徒，被排除在伊斯兰社区之外。本研究利用范迪克的意识形态广场，旨在识别JAI追随者所创造的抵抗话语作为防御策略，以对抗将他们描述为非伊斯兰教信徒的负面话语。抵抗话语在书面和口头文本中都很明显，如该教派创作的书籍、文章、演讲和公开辩论。研究结果表明，JAI追随者使用各种话语策略，即受害、恐吓策略、正面归因、引用、权力剥夺合法性和行为不端的负面画像，创造了受害者、伊斯兰捍卫者、帝国主义、非法性和公众欺骗的话语。

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期刊介绍： Muslim World Journal of Human Rights promises to serve as a forum in which barriers are bridged (or at least, addressed), and human rights are finally discussed with an eye on the Muslim world, in an open and creative manner. The choice to name the journal, Muslim World Journal of Human Rights reflects a desire to examine human rights issues related not only to Islam and Islamic law, but equally those human rights issues found in Muslim societies that stem from various other sources such as socio-economic and political factors, as well the interaction and intersections of the two areas. MWJHR welcomes submissions that apply the traditional human right framework in their analysis as well as those that transcend the boundaries of contemporary scholarship in this regard. Further, the journal also welcomes inter-disciplinary and/or comparative approaches to the study of human rights in the Muslim world in an effort to encourage the emergence of new methodologies in the field. Muslim World Journal of Human Rights recognizes that several highly contested debates in the field of human rights have been reflected in the Muslim world but have frequently taken on their own particular manifestation in accordance with the varying contexts of contemporary Muslim societies.