Blasting Borobudur? ISIS, Enemies of Civilisation!
The evil scum who support ISIS in Indonesia may not care much for this country, or its people, any more than they care for the welfare of the people who have fallen into their clutches in Iraq.
Ignorant savages.
But while people are more important than material things, let’s not forget their assault on Iraq’s cultural heritage too. Precious contents of museums, ancient religious sites, all wrecked by rabid fanatics.
And it seems the vermin have their eyes on Indonesia’s priceless monuments as well, as Tribunnews.com reported yesterday.
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- I’ve been twice, or is it thrice, to Borobudur, a world heritage building, dating back a thousand years or more, and each time I’ve climbed up and around its amazing structure along with hundreds or maybe thousands of Indonesians, astonished and delighted that their country possesses such a fine monument.
It is indeed Buddhist in its origins, but a source of pride to citizens of every creed.
So what to say to a savage who wants to destroy it.
Yet that’s what we find in the report I read to day. http://m.tribunnews.com/nasional/2014/08/15/rencana-isis-menghancurkan-candi-borobudur-beredar-di-media-sosial
It’s based on a Facebook page, ‘We Are The Islamic State’ which reveals the plans for the destruction of the temple of Borobudur .
I won’t even beging to scrape the surface of its benighted content.
Suffice to let you translate it and see for yourselves – but remember the threats are entirely credible, given the mind-set of these fanatics, and not just ISIS but all the worst elements in Indonesia, which I’ve covered more than once here in RRA.
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Semar
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There was that report on a loutish mob, the FUI, in Purwakarta, Central Java, who vandalised statues of Java’s legendary figures, inclduing Semar, Guardian of Java, and Bima, another part of that pantheon.
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FUI savages amok in Java
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https://rossrightangle.wordpress.com/2011/09/18/ignorant-islamist-bigots-attack-indonesias-heritage-java-statues-wrecked/
And later I reviewd that event, and expressed my concerns for Borobudur! https://rossrightangle.wordpress.com/2012/07/10/sphinx-jinxed-islamists-a-menace-to-the-glory-that-was-egypt/
And that was two years ago!
The author of the breathless diatribe in Facebook goes on, and on, and on, hatred for Indonesia’s heritage flowing down the page, and it ain’t just Borobudur.
He rails at the statues of Hanuman, the monkey-god from the Ramayana, which apparently line the road to Suharto’s tomb, and at the Regent of Karanganyar, (a woman, he notes unhappily) who wanted to bring statues from Bali to Solo, to augment the regency’s cultural displays. .
This guy is a piece of work.
And another good reason for the authorities to stop playing pat-a-cake with ISIS – braying about a ban is pointless if you capture ratbags then let them go in 24 hours time. https://rossrightangle.wordpress.com/2014/08/15/hes-out-java-cops-turn-loose-isis-fanatic/
Andrei are discussing. 
rossrightangle 
Andrei 12:49 on August 18, 2014 Permalink |
I just read in the news that the Australian Government ‘is facing a backlash from Islamic groups, which fear they will be unfairly targeted by the new laws.’
‘Unfairly?’ That depends what they subscribe to and tell their ‘groups’ is God’s law.
I am okay with Australia banning terrorists, but we need to ban the thinking that inspires terrorism.
By this I mean propagation of ‘teachings’ that women are undeserving of equal respect, number one being the polygamy issue.
How can it make sense, in a modern country, that a man may have a number of wives but a woman may only have one husband.
And numbers two and three?
Unfair dress codes, like women covering their heads outdoors, but not men.
And there’s the unequal division of property when somebody dies, females getting less than males.
There is more to be said on this, but those will do for now.
If you train children to believe that kind of gender discrimination is ‘lawful’ and ‘just,’ they will grow up to do whatever it takes to force its acceptance on normal people.
In a democratic society, people will never be persuaded to agree to it, so the only alternative for the lunatics is to resort to violence. Terrorism.
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sheilachila 13:11 on August 18, 2014 Permalink |
The use of the phrases “by Allah” and “Islam” is enough to cause a split among the ranks of Muslims. There are rational people who will think about what stands behind these phrases, and then there are “blind people” who will believe anything this group says, as long as it uses the phases “Islam” and “by God” as a part of its statements. The latter will remained perplexed, searching for a way to justify (these claims).
I know that the minds of the “general public,” whose education in monopolized by sheikhs and preachers — some of whom go too far in their personal, psychological and social interpretations — have today become “minds without movement,” following these sheikhs and preachers blindly. They support the latter, searching for any justification to support their views, even if it violates Sharia law, Islam, and human values that have evolved, been refined and become civilized.
These people are not mercenaries, rather they are, unfortunately, people who embrace a rigid ideology whose errors have accumulated until they blocked all outlets for life. Thus, they began demanding death.
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