Synagogue Sealed, Now Destroyed – IslamoNazis Satisfied Now?
Ignorant Islamist Vandalising Surabaya Synagogue in 2010 ================================
A mob of ignorant Islamists sealed the Surabaya Beth Shalom Synagogue some years ago, but now it’s no longer sealed —it no longer exists, destroyed by person or persons unknown, despite being under the ‘protection’ of a government agency.
Clearly the agency in question has failed in its duty and a head or two should roll, but what’s the betting no repercussions occur?
“It’s not clear when exactly it was demolished and who did it,” Freddy Istanto, the director of the Surabaya Heritage Society (SHS), told the Jakarta Globe. “In mid-May, I was informed by a member of the SHS that the synagogue was destroyed. In disbelief, I went over there and it had been flattened.”
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As it was once!
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Freddy did the right thing, got onto the Surabaya Legislative Council. Turns out it was their Surabaya Tourism Agency that had the job of looking after the venerable building.
“It was designated a heritage site by the agency on April 16, 2009. It should’ve been protected,” Freddy said.
But let’s listen to a -what should we call him? God knows! – called Soemarsono, the head of the National Unity and Society Protection Agency of Surabaya- the synagogue was an illegal structure because it did not possess proper building permits! http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/javas-last-synagogue-torn-down/
How strange.
It was erected way back in the colonial era, when such things as building permits were barely a glimmer in the eye of palaeo-bureaucrats. Very odd he should be so dim-witted that he doesn’t know that.
Or is it that nowadays in Indonesia, if you see a house of worship you don’t like, you yell ‘Building permit!’
Despite the fact that thousands of mosques lack such documents, I’ve yet to hear of any of those being knocked down for the lack. Yet churches galore are confronted by howling Islamist bigots demanding destruction on those grounds.
And now Java’s last synagogue.
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