Felix Siauw
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Felix Yanwar Siauw | |
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| Born | Felix Yanwar Siauw January 31, 1984 |
| Occupations | Author, Da'i |
| Known for | Dawah |
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| Traditional Chinese | 蕭正國 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 萧正国 | ||||||||||||
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Felix Yanwar Siauw (traditional Chinese: 蕭正國; simplified Chinese: 萧正国; pinyin: Xiāo Zhèng Guó, born January 31, 1984) is a Chinese-Indonesian Islamic cleric (ustad), preacher, author and da'i, known for his affiliation with the Islamist group Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI), and his hard-line puritanical position on Islamic interpretations.[1][2]
Popular on social media, he’s known for his conservative positions, criticizing democracy, nationalism, capitalism, socialism, feminism and secularism.[3]
Siauw was born and grew up in a Catholic environment, however he became a lapsed Catholic before he converted to Islam. He started to recognize Islam in 2002, while still studying at the Bogor Agricultural University, and converted to Islam during his college days after meeting an activist of HTI.[4] Siauw married in 2006 and currently[until when?] has four children.
