The Sumatra PAN-Shariah Boss, Forcing EVERYONE to Pray?


Bigoted Bengkulu, a city in Sumatra, is a notorious place, which we have featured before, notably when its shariah-freak Mayor, a fanatic named Ahmad Kanedi, not only offered rewards of Rp.1, 000,000 (over USD$100) to anyone who squealed on city staff  furtively EATING during Ramadan.
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He pledged to FIRE the culprits, much like Hitler’s Nazis fired Jews serving in government positions when they took power in the 1930s. https://rossrightangle.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/bengkulu-bigot-bounty-hundred-bucks-reward-to-snitch-on-ramadan-snackers/
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And Hizonna wasn’t the only benighted jihadist in a position of power up there! ‘According to Bengkulu Police head Khairul Saleh, the four people were found eating in a restaurant during a sweep by authorities on Thursday….four civil servants arrested on Thursday were likely not employees of the city, Khairul said, and one, identified as R.T., was a non-Muslim employee of the local Trade Ministry office. He said the four would be referred to their office supervisors.

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Those detainees were ultimately released, but that’s hardly the point.  That cop’s job was, is, to serve and protect all citizens equally, not harass people for their religious observance or lack of it.

Khairul was unequivocal in his determination to serve as sectarian enforcers. 

He added that police would continue their sweeps throughout the holy month to discourage civil servants from eating during the day.  Civil servants were supposed to serve as an example during Ramadan, he said, EVEN IF THEY WERE NOT MUSLIM.  Jakarta Globe 4/8  https://rossrightangle.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/indonesia-police-adopt-islamonazi-tactics-muslim-and-non-muslim-fast-breakers-arrested/

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  • Shameful and scandalous, yes, but now the fanatics have gone totally OTT,

As Tribunnews.com reported last week, a new local law is being issued, coercing not just city employees but EVERYONE to attend not just Friday prayers, but the five times daily prayers also.

No surprise that the quoted spokesman for the city’s intolerance is Mukhlis, local head of the Ministry of Religious Affairs, who argues that if there’s a law to make people pay taxes, why not one on prayer?

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Seems there’s a new boss in Bengkulu, Mayor Helmi Hasan, but he sounds as bad as, or worse than, Kanedi. Mukhlis tells us that the new Hizonna is behind this scheme to increase Bengkulu’s religious faith…penalties are still under discussion in the relevant agencies..

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If Muslims, who are a huge majority in Bengkulu, vote a raving rabid fanatic into power, it’s up to them, if they don’t wish to be dragooned like slaves, to vote him out. Incidentally, he’s a PAN man, the National Mandate party, which likes to pretend it’s ‘moderate.’

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Only a few weeks ago, the Jakarta Globe reported that the National Mandate Party has called on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to take concrete action toward building tolerance in the country and to not only engage in empty rhetoric. http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/pan-govt-needs-to-back-rhetoric-on-tolerance-with-real-actions/

So will PAN expel this hare-brained Helmi, or was their lengthy critique on the need to tackle intolerance just empty rhetoric?

There will be no answer to my rhetorical question. Only a fool expects rational or consistent thinking from people of that sort?

The important question is obviously-

If that bigoted police chief was prepared to impose Islamic fasting rules on Christians and other non-Muslim minority citizens, are Christians etc. now also to be coerced to Friday prayers?

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  • It would be an abomination, yes, but entirely consistent with that crack-pot cop’s 2011 rant.

However, hope springs (well, staggers a little) eternal, for even Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi, an Islamist extremist himself, has come out and said this piece of gestapoid legislation is a fatwa too far.

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“If it is only a call advising people to go to the mosque to pray, or to go to the church for the Christians, it’s fine,” he told the Jakarta Globe. “But it’s not fine if they issue a bylaw which carries sanctions. They don’t have the authority, as religious affairs are under the authority of the central government.”

Yet despite the disgrace this bye-law would surely bring to Indonesia, he seems in no rush to act.

Gamawan said that if the Bengkulu government passed the bylaw, his ministry would review it and decide whether it should stand or face annulment. “We’ll study it first,” he said.  http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/home-affairs-minister-speaks-out-against-mandatory-prayer-bylaw/

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