Indonesian police appealed on Thursday for tolerance and respect for other people’s religious celebrations after an Islamist group, Islamic Defender Front (FPI), threatened to raid businesses to check for Muslims being forced to wear Santa Claus hats or other Christmas garb. The FPI was instrumental in organizing massive rallies in Jakarta earlier this year to protest the city’s Chinese Christian governor, Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama, whom it accused of blasphemy for quoting a Quran verse about electing non-Muslim leaders. Anxiety about radicalism and religious tolerance in Indonesia have triggered reactionary responses that could be dangerous for the country’s democracy, writes Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir for The Conversation.