harryopal1
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A few things to say on the bolded portion. I am not an Acehnese. I don't hate anyone who isn't Acehnese. I don't hate Indonesians. Can you show where I held such sentiments? I'm calling people out for their commentary on Aceh, that's all.
Your posts seemed so angry which led me to presume you hated those who don't have the same sense of outrage that you feel over the issues raised.
You also said, "I don't get why the insistence that the indigenous peoples of Aceh, the only people whose opinion actually matters when it comes to holidays celebrated in Aceh, adhere to holidays of your choosing? "
I don't think anyone is insisting that Acehnese "adhere to holidays of your choosing? " The issues are to do with Shariah law adherents denying other people's rights to celebrate in ways relevant to their own cultures. Similarly using extreme punishment to try and control others who do not follow Shariah law is hard to understand where the call for national unity indicates embracing tolerance for others with different beliefs and customs. Just as it is difficult for people to understand how a love of God would lead Sunnis or Shias to kill members of the other factions of Islam or so called "infidels" because they don't have the same set of beliefs. These kind of fundamentalist extremes were held across different versions of Christianity but these days most Christians manage to accept that others can worship according to their consciences.