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        "msgid": "only-one-islamic-party-necessary-1447893297",
        "date": "2002-03-27 00:00:00",
        "title": "Only one Islamic party necessary",
        "author": null,
        "source": "",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Only one Islamic party necessary From Republika Two Islamic parties have recently been established, one led by a noted preacher and the other founded by a politician who has lived through three eras. I think this phenomenon isn't something we should feel grateful for. I am apprehensive, instead. God willing, many others will share my concern. Why?",
        "content": "<p>Only one Islamic party necessary<\/p>\n<p>From Republika<\/p>\n<p>Two Islamic parties have recently been established, one led by<br>\na noted preacher and the other founded by a politician who has<br>\nlived through three eras. I think this phenomenon isn't something<br>\nwe should feel grateful for. I am apprehensive, instead. God<br>\nwilling, many others will share my concern. Why? The answer is<br>\nthat founding a new party, particularly if it is only a splinter<br>\ngroup, means that we did not learn any lessons from the previous<br>\ngeneral election, where the Muslim vote was split between dozens<br>\nof parties and the best an Islamic party could do was to garner<br>\nthe third-most number of votes.<\/p>\n<p>Muslims should think about how to unite the existing Islamic<br>\nparties into just one or, temporarily, two parties, and should<br>\nnot be in a hurry to establish new parties to contest the 2004<br>\ngeneral election.<\/p>\n<p>We should not form parties that will only be able to take part<br>\nin the next elections and win just one or two seats in the House<br>\nof Representatives. We should calculate how an Islamic party can<br>\nbe absolutely triumphant in the next elections, and then our wish<br>\nto put Islamic law, syariah, into effect will come to pass.<\/p>\n<p>KH A CHOLIL RIDWAN<\/p>\n<p>Jakarta<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/only-one-islamic-party-necessary-1447893297",
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