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Islam, Democracy and Human Rights in Contemporary Indonesia41to make to respect human rights. Normative speaking, we havemade known such commitment. However, we have toacknowledge the limitations and shortcomings confronting usin aspects of the implementation, which require more time forus to be able to come up with such capacity. To promote awareness on promoting and protecting human rights requires anoutreach public campaign and dissemination, especially forgovernment officials in the bureaucracy and law enforcementofficials. There is no other option to such challenge, but for allcomponents of the nation to be committed in exercising patience,firm determination and hard work. Therefore, one can only passjudgment on the implementation of human rights in any givencountry by taking into account its good intention, its candorand full awareness that such efforts to promote human rightsare not an easy task. It is going to be a long journey of humanitarian struggle.The majority of Muslims feel the pinch on the applicationof double standard on human rights following the terroristattacks on the World Trade Center buildings in New York on11 September 2001. We fully understand the affirmationexpressed by some observers that the war against terrorism isnot aimed exclusively at the Muslims, since followers of anyfaith can commit such terrorists acts. But the pinch is muchmore felt by the Muslims than other religion followers of theexcessive anti-terrorist war campaign launched by the UnitedStates. As a result, they disregard the respect of human rightsand in most instances they abuse and violate the rights ofMuslims in indiscriminative manner. All kinds of forms ofprejudice, racialism, xenophobia and Islamophobia appearagain on the political setting regulating relations between