Meaningless ‘Militants’ or Islamist Terrorists – Get Real, Media!
Indonesian police killed a suspected militant and arrested two others, national police said Friday, in an ongoing clampdown on terrorism. Police from counter-terrorism unit Densus 88 shot dead Thursday a suspect named Suardi after he resisted arrest and opened fire….
Suardi was reportedly a 50-year-old former school teacher. The two other men detained were identified as Ahmad Iswan and Jodi.http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/police-gun-down-suspected-militant/
And good for Densus 88, the anti-terror unit that the fanatical Islamists here want disbanded. http://rossrightangle.wordpress.com/2013/09/05/jakarta-jihadis-v-anti-terror-cops-a-veiled-threat/
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But you can scan the report in the Jakarta Globe as diligently as you like, but you’ won’t find any info at all as to what kind of ‘militant’ this Suardi was.
If he was a Marxist,, why not say so? But I doubt that!
Equally improbable that he was an Anarchist, or Buddhist, or Separatist? (there are separatists in Indonesia, bur none, so far as i’ve heard, in South Sulawesi) which is where this latest incident appears to have happened, though again, the JG doesn’t actually tell us. It took me a search for the Jakarta Post to clarify this, and good to see that the JP headlined the story properly as ‘A Terrorist Ambush….
And why ‘militant?‘ That’s a very vague term which can include all manner of political and religious people with strong feelings on issues but who do not necessarily use violence,
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Why not just say Islamist terrorist – because that’s what Suardi was. There’s a sickening tradition of sectarian savagery on Sulawesi, as I’m sure this headline will remind you.
Beheaded girls were Ramadan ‘trophies’ | The Australian
The girls’ severed heads were dumped in plastic bags in their village in Indonesia’s strife-torn Central Sulawesi province, along with a handwritten note threatening more such attacks. The note read: “Wanted: 100 more Christian heads, teenaged or adult, male or female; blood shall be answered with blood, soul with soul, head with head.” http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/beheaded-girls-were-ramadan-trophies/story-e6frg6so-1111112492769
And that is another reason to be cheerful about the way Densus took out Suadi.
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The filthy islamist pig who beheaded those little school-girls is alive and well, and will likely be out of jail inside ten years, the gutless courts here having failed to execute him.
But at least we know whose cause he served.
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If left to some media, he’d be disguised as an anonymous ‘militant.’ which is near enough sinking to the level of Australia’s leftist (but tax-subsidised) ABC, where, infamously, one of their ‘enemy within’ apparatchiks, ABC’s head of local radio, Andy Henley, issued a memo to all presenters warning about airing “derogatory on-air comments’’ about Afghanistan’s Taliban regime. ‘ http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/the_abcs_trioli_farewells_a_conservative_guest/
And yes, I’ve railed against this habit of shying away from calling a spade a spade before, and I shall continue so to do! http://rossrightangle.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/militants-my-as/



Jaksa Lad 4:55 am on October 19, 2013 Permalink |
Funny how you frequently mention the terrible beheading of those three poor schoolgirls, but never the murder of 200 Muslims at a religious school in Poso in 2000.
ross1948 9:04 am on October 19, 2013 Permalink |
Funny? Hardly.
And since you brought the case up, I give you the link to a very left-lib source, the NYT, which reported on the case at the time
JAKARTA, Indonesia, Aug. 10 — Three men convicted in connection with riots that killed more than 200 people are to be executed Saturday, Indonesian officials said Thursday, in a case that has been marred by questions about their trial and has become embroiled in the country’s sectarian politics.
The men are all Christians, which has raised questions about the role their religion may have played in scheduling them for execution, as well as broader questions about the fairness of their trial.
The men, two farmers and a mechanic, were convicted and sentenced to death by firing squad on charges of leading a Christian militia in Poso, in central Sulawesi, that killed more than 200 Muslims in May 2000. From 1998 to 2001, several hundred Christians and Muslims were killed in sectarian violence.
After wending through the Indonesian judicial system for five years, the men have run out of appeals, though some Muslim leaders have called for the government to do a more thorough investigation, which it has not done, and for postponing the executions. Previously, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono denied a request for a pardon….
The trial was marked by troubling “irregularities,” said David McRae, a specialist in the Poso violence at the Australian National University.
One prosecution witness, for instance, slapped the defendants before taking the stand, Mr. McRae said by telephone from Canberra.
The trial was also affected by the atmosphere at the time, Mr. McRae said. Crowds of angry Muslims gathered outside the courthouse, sometimes throwing rocks…
“There is a very strong sense that whatever Tibo’s role might have been — and it’s fairly unclear — he certainly was not the mastermind,” said Sidney Jones, director of the International Crisis Group office in Jakarta. “So it seems giving the death penalty in this case is just extraordinarily over the top.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/11/world/asia/11indo.html?_r=0
ularjawa 10:53 am on October 19, 2013 Permalink |
The Laskar Jihad were the criminals then, Christian only fight back.
As we remember in Maluku too it was Amien Rais who liked them Laskar Jihad so much..