Islamist Fanatics Threaten Peaceful Minority, Again!
As you know, I went walkabout overseas a week or so ago, so missed some local news, notably the latest intolerant outburst by the self-styled Islam Defenders Front, the notorious FPI, whose hate and violence we have oft recorded, not to mention their ‘bravery!’
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IslamoNazis V Freedom-Fighters? – Some Chicken, Some Neck
IslamoNazi Gauleiter – “Women Already Have Limitations..
FPI in West Java – ‘Let’s Burn Out the Orphans!’
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I had not heard news of the outcome of the huge petition against renewal of their permit to operate as a ‘community organisation…’
Jakarta – Anti-Fanatic Petition
…so I just checked – President Jokowi’s Minister Wiranto said this week that no decision has been reached. https://m.republika.co.id/berita/nasional/politik/19/07/19/puvqgh409-wiranto-belum-diputuskan-izin-fpi-dilanjutkan-atau-tidak
We wait expectantly.
This time the white-shirt extremists were belly-aching about the inoffensive Ahmadiyah minority and the location was held at South Sulawesi’s Provincial Assembly…
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Sulawesi ( once called Celebes) is in the middle of the map, a fairly large island with long peninsular ’arms and legs.’
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…on Friday 12th July.
The bigoted gang arrived in pick-up trucks to protest the local legislature’s allegedly inadequate position on peaceful dissenters, who do not share their theological interpretations.
One ranter was reportedly screaming that he did not want the nation to be “cursed by Allah because of the sect!”
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According to Timur News, the Islamists had numerous demands, including the Ahmadis’ “immediate repentance” and a police investigation into alleged “blasphemy” – which presumably refers to those theological differences between the Ahmadis and the vigilante gang.
As I have already said, the Ahmadis are utterly inoffensive, and peaceful, despite the frightful brutality visited upon them for years here in Indonesia.
Victim of Islamist Murder Mob Gets Six Months in the Slammer …
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Ahmadi kids in ‘shelter’ after their families were driven out of their homes by vicious Islamists
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But what is truly offensive is the creepy call by the FPI, ‘inviting all Muslims to always supervise every activity of religious blasphemy specifically in the city of Makassar.’
In other words, not content with being fanatic foes of religious liberty themselves, the FPI want to turn the province, and indeed the country, into a sticky-beak cauldron…
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…nasty nosey-parkers ‘supervising’ how fellow-citizens worship Almighty God.
And even more offensive, is Point Five of their diktat list – viz.
’If Ahmadiyah is not disbanded in 3 × 24 hours, all of its activities in disseminating its heretical ideas, we will forcibly dissolve every Ahmadiyah activity in our own way…’ https://www.timurnews.com/10259-2/10259/
Now THAT merits a serious police investigation!
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We have seen how these bigots ‘forcibly’ handle anyone who does anything they don’t like, as our photo of thugs attacking little food-stalls in Sulawesi some years ago..
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Kezia 14:26 on July 24, 2019 Permalink |
All very true, Ross, but I want to know why the government has still no decision yeton renewing the FPI pemit to be a ‘community organisation.’
Inthe report you write about, they threaten to ‘forcibly dissolve’ a religious activity they do not like. That alone is reason enough to refuse renewal. They are violent vigilante extremists and Indonesia does not need gangsters.
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Santi 15:52 on July 24, 2019 Permalink |
I wish you can write more like this,Ross.
It is so good to read.
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Jim Ex Jakarta 22:18 on July 24, 2019 Permalink |
Hey Ross.
You used to post great stuff like this twice a week or more.
What happened?
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