“Our Prayers Disturbed His!” Pluralism in Jokowi’s Jakarta?

We used to publish lots of reports on the vindictive sectarian persecution of the Ahmadiyah minority here in Indonesia.

Recently, we have had fewer cases to report, not, alas, because there is less oppression but because the harassment, violence and general intimidation by thugs has more or less succeeded in preventing the Ahmadis from openly exercising their right to worship freely.

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• I had hoped that after President Jokowi won his election last year, that brazenly discriminatory Tri-Ministerial Diktat would have been quashed and that police would have been ordered to ensure that all citizens were guaranteed their constitutional liberties.

But clearly not – this past weekend the Jakarta Post covered a shameful incident that occurred in Jakarta’s Tebet district, a senior cop allegedly on the scene while a gang of hoodlums threatened worshippers and vandalised a mosque.

Aaah, but actually, it’s not a mosque, says Tebet Police chief Comr. I Ketut Sudarma, who claims he was at the location from the very beginning when the incident took place. http://wwv.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/06/13/ahmadiyah-blocked-friday-prayers.html

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• Sudarma’s assertion seems to be refuted by the JP report, which describes the place unambiguously as the  An Nur Mosque in Bukit Duri Tanjakan, Tebet, South Jakarta – so it would have been useful if the JP reporter had clarified this point.

It would also have helped if  this top cop had been confronted over what he did when Islamist hoodlums  kicked down the gates, assaulted a would-be worshipper and threatened that they would not hesitate to use violence if the Ahmadis remained defiant.

Rule of law? Not in Tebet, it appears, even if the Police Chief is present – all Sudarma did, we read, was try to mediate between the two parties. 

Mediate? Again, the JP tells us that the violent vigilantes included IslamoNazis from the FPI, whose record of cowardly thuggery is known to all.

Mediation between gangsters and their victims?

There’s a sad photo of the scene, a solitary Ahmadi kneeling at prayer on the street, while a knot of men looks on, one lout so proud of his righteous role that he’s put on a scarf to hide his face. Gutless swine!

And I’m glad I didn’t post this yesterday, as intended, because there’s updating to be done. This time from the Jakarta Globe. 

… the FPI members threatened to return on Sunday.http://thejakartaglobe.beritasatu.com/news/jakarta/jokowi-touts-tolerance-ahmadis-come-threat/  They were duly back as promised, and harangued the Ahmadis. The police, who said they would post officers outside the house, were nowhere to be seen.

Is this the sort of thing over which Jokowi – who in the same JG report is quoted  as saying,  just last Friday, that  “Ours is an Islam that is polite, full of courtesy and tolerance,”- is pleased to preside?

Still, it could be worse. Elsewhere in recent years…

Lombok’s Ahmadis were driven from their village by a rabid rabble, police present but inert.  

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 sectarian savages amok in Lombok

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Those victims remain refugees in their own country. 

In Squalid Internal Exile, Lombok Ahmadis Denied Voting Rights 

 Lombok’s Ahmadi refugees

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In Depok, West Java, one Ahmadi mosque was stolen by the local regime, Communist-style..’  https://rossrightangle.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/depok-jadi-kota-pki-islamist-council-grabs-private-property-communist-style/

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 Cisalada, West Java – the bigots burned not only the mosque, but the Ahmadis’ Koran as well

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Another, in Cisalada, was burned to the ground. . https://rossrightangle.wordpress.com/2012/07/14/west-java-islamists-again-attack-ahmadis-blame-foreign-journos/

And in Banten Province, of course, on February 6th, 2011, three Ahmadis were brutally martyred by an Islamist mob –

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– again, while police looked on.

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The JP quotes a Tebet victim on the justification of Friday’s outrage offered by one evil bigot – the Ahmadis’ prayers disturbed his praying activities..

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The question arises – to whom do their persecutors pray?