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For example, an indonesian moslem could say that
he/she hates Jews people, but she/ he said that quote
on Facebook, that is made by a Jewish decendent.
This kind of hypocrisy does happen undeliberately.
Abduh of course does never say anything about
Cyberspace, because he was living in 19th century
before the year of 1998, but why this paper is using
1
Abduh’s modern islamic thought for Cyberspace? First
is about his critical point about Islam and Modernity
2
that is quoted by Islamic scholar, Hamid Enayat.
Abduh is regarded as one of important architects of
modern islamic political thought. Second is the close
feeling between Abduh modern islamic thought and
indonesian moslem society. Third is about Abduh’s ideas
itself that are modern and compatible with modern times.
Not just in islamic world, Abduh is also popular
among modern thinker in western philosophy because
his work is influenced by western scholars.
3
esides, he was also the founder of modern islamic
newspaper Al-‘urwat Al wutsqa’ in Paris, France, that was
always criticizing of Islamic fundamentalists. However,
Abduh never say that he rejected fundamentalism
thinking, nor he support to construct an Islamic country.

1. The term of Cyberspace is officialy used when in 1998,
World Wide Web is founded.
2. Hamid Enayat is a Iranian moslem scholar and the author of
the book “Modern Islamic Political Thought”. In that book, he
quoted many of Abduh’s sayings about how moslem should
behave in modern time.
3. Based on a thesis “Modernism within Islam by Abduh”.