As the Indonesian activist Karl Karnadi points out, the persecution of Alexander Aan comes in the context of broader trends of "increasing religious intolerance in Indonesia which has victimized minority Ahmadiyya Muslims, Shia, Christians, Buddhists." Indonesia’s Minister of Religious Affairs has recently called Shia Islam a "heresy" and publicly backed provincial bans on the Ahmadiyya, who consider themselves Muslims but differ from mainstream Islam on the finality of the Prophet.
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