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No Hearts and Flowers in Islam

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Feb 12, 2009
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Indonesia's most conservative Islamic party, briefly considered wooing young voters politically for upcoming national elections with chocolates and flowers on Valentine's Day before pulling up short and abandoning the plan in the mistaken idea that the holiday is "too Jewish."

The PKS, whose name in English is the Prosperous Justice Party, has had a diff…

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