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  • ross1948 12:16 on September 5, 2017 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , Buddhists, , ,   

    Borobudur Threat – Buddhists Fear Bigot Backlash! 


    Fake news articles and photos about the Rohingya’s suffering in Rakhine State have also been circulating on local social media, causing even more anger and frustration over the continued violence against the minority group in Myanmar.

    http://jakartaglobe.id/news/indonesian-buddhist-leaders-call-unity-tensions-rise-plight-rohingya-muslims/

    One does wonder about some of the stuff allegedly portraying the on-going Burmese mayhem!

    Not that maltreatment of religious minorities is a phenomenon that defies belief.

    Anyone aware of the crude Islamist brutality which the completely inoffensive Ahmadi minority…

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    Victim of Islamist Murder Mob Gets Six Months in the Slammer  

    Watch the video..   http://www.liveleak.com/view.– 

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    …and Christians too…

    – Christ’s Ascension Day – Islamist Savages Pelt Congregation With Sewage, Urine and Rocks 

    …have suffered here in Indonesia, is unlikely to be surprised, although they may be horrified, by sectarian hate-crimes.

    Indeed, some nasty bigots here apparently are already doing their worst to foment trouble.

    But they have also led to provocations against Indonesia’s Buddhist communities, with rumors of a demonstration to be held at Borobudur, the world’s biggest Buddhist temple, going around on social media.

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    Borobudur is not only the world’s biggest Buddhist temple but one of Indonesia’s major tourist attractions. I’ve been there more than once.

    In recent years we mentioned it on our blog, because, given how ignoramus elements were intent on destroying Indonesia’s cultural heritage…

    …it was not unreasonable to assume they might set their sectarian sights on the mighty temple, which stands near Jogjakarta.

    Blasting Borobudur? ISIS, Enemies of Civilisation!  

    But long before this latest excuse for incitement, Buddhists have had every reason to be apprehensive.

     
    • Astuti 12:26 on September 5, 2017 Permalink | Reply

      Nobody must be mean to our Buddhis Indonesian people because of this trouble in the other country.
      We know who like to make hate here and better police keep them controlled

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    • Jim in Jakarta 12:38 on September 5, 2017 Permalink | Reply

      Good to put the outrage in perspective.

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    • Deden 13:24 on September 5, 2017 Permalink | Reply

      If the bigots want to help Rohingya then why do they not invite the Rohingya refugees to come live in their houses In Indonesia.
      That is a much better thing to do than to start threats to Borobudur or to Indonesian Buddhists.

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  • ross1948 14:35 on August 3, 2016 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , Buddhists, , eva kusuma sundari, , , , , , , , , , , temples desecrated, vihara   

    Tanjung Balai ‘Congregants’ Promote Islamophobia! 


    I got back after a pleasant morning walkabout in the sun yesterday, then opted to sit out front and soak up some more of those lovely solar rays.

    But a glance at the Jakarta Post’s coverage of the mayhem in Tanjung Balai ( I covered the incident a few days ago  –Tanjung Balai’s Burning Temples – A History of Bigotry!  ) made me pause, struck by the odd phraseology.

    As reported, a pack of pig-ignorant savages from a local mosque ran amok and desecrated various Buddhist houses of worship.

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    • No fatalities,’says the JP .
    • One is tempted to speculate whether, had the cops used their guns on the rabble, Indonesia might be more wholesome today.

    But the damage done by arson and the mob’s other wanton wickednesses resulted in billions of rupiah in losses. 

    bhttp://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2016/07/30/vihara-pagodas-burned-down-plundered-in-n-sumatra.html

    It seems some poor woman was driven to distraction by the cacaphonous din from that mosque and went to complain, as she had every right to do.  

    But it can be dodgy speaking up against the way some mosques disrespect their neighbours. 

    Aceh – Muslim Seeks Quieter Mosques, Bullied Into Silence, after ‘Death Threats!’ 

    Mosque-din’s an all too common problem here, not least because local government lacks the guts to fulfil its legal obligations, do its duty and deal with miscreants.     https://rossrightangle.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/mosques-above-the-law-too-sensitive-to-enforce-noise-control-and-criticism-an-outrage/.


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    Even Vice-President Kalla, a serious Muslim, has spoken up.

    Turn It Down! Ex VP Urges Volume Control for Noisy Indonesian Mosques 

    So I tend to suspect poor Melania’s Friday night visit was met with an arrogant refusal to cut the cacaphony, because next thing, as the JP has it, the mosque’s congregation members visited her house following her complaint.

    Congregation?

    That conjures up an image of families in Sunday-best, shaking hands with the preacher as they leave, pondering the message in the sermon, going home to dwell on the goodness of God.

    Different story in Tanjung Balai.

    The pig-ignoramuses ended up  forcing Tanjung Balai Police officers to safeguard Meliana and her husband at the police station. Angry mobs continued to flock to Meliana’s house, however. Some had even attempted to burn down the house…

    What a pack of anti-social undesirable swine!

    That’s how normal people would describe them. Instead, the JP uses these bizarre words –

    People who had been seized by emotion…


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    Tantrum brats, regardless of age, I’d say. 

    .. “The mob attempted to set ablaze the vihara but the police managed to prevent them. They could only pelt the house of worship with projectiles, damaging it. This was the start of the anarchic acts.

    The sectarian scum damaged and burned down several vihara and Chinese temples or pagoda….

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    Who is it that’s to blame for ‘Islamophobia?’

    Trump? Wilders?

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    It’s vile, blasphemous brutes, like those who destroyed prayer equipment, Buddha statues, tables, chairs, lamps, and several cars and motorbikes.

    If  decreasing ‘Islamophobia’ is a desirable goal, those French Muslims have set a good example by refusing burial to that ISIS plague-dog.

     https://uk.news.yahoo.com/muslims-refuse-bury-priest-killer-kermiche

    And whoever runs the mosques in Tanjung Balai should follow that example, by making it clear that none of those sacrilegious curs who ran riot will be allowed to set foot on mosque premises ever again.

    They have tainted the reputation of their faith.

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    But let’s not imagine only sectarian motives were involved.

    There was base theft too!

    Seven people were taken into custody for allegedly plundering the houses of worship when the attacks occurred.

    Nothing wrong with such creatures that a firing squad wouldn’t fix.

    Trouble is, deliberate promotion of sectarian hatred can be publicly flaunted with impunity here.


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    You may recall those IslamoNazi FPI louts strutting through Jakarta with their hate-banner. No arrests.

    And there’s also the infamous example of Lubis, a leader of that same FPI…

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    •  FPI’s Sobri Lubis who shrilled ‘Kill, kill,kill!’

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7RLCXNdKF4  –

    … whose ferocious call to ‘kill, kill, kill‘ members of the Ahmadiyah minority was ignored by the authorities here.

    Mind you, incitement pales into insignificance compared to actual blood-letting, which occurred at Cikeusik…

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    Filthy Islamist cowards at Cikeusik

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    …….

    ….when three innocent Ahmadis were brutally martyred by squalid Islamist thugs.

    To this day, despite video evidence of the whole horrible event, nobody has been charged with murder. 

    Victim of Islamist Murder Mob Gets Six Months in the Slammer 

     Watch that video..
     http://www.liveleak.com/view.– 

    Good to see that some eminent Indonesian MPs, notably Eva Kusuma Sundari, are urging proper investigation, and that the police ate pursuing evil-doers.

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    Eva

    http://en.tempo.co/read/news/2016/08/01/055792151/Govt-Asked-to-Remain-Neutral-over-Tanjung-Balai-Riot

    But better still if President Jokowi were to order a re-opening of the Ciikeusik case, getting his new Police Chief to go out and detain the cowards still skulking up there in Banten Province, and drag them to justice.

    It’s not only drug traffickers who should be facing death sentences.

    • And all those found guilty of participation in the Tanjung Balai outrage this past weekend should get YEARS behind bars. 

     

     
    • Jan DeVeer 20:22 on August 3, 2016 Permalink | Reply

      What you say is badly needing to be said, but by the so-called ‘moderate Muslims’ who have been letting Islamist thugs wander through Indonesian cities and villages bullying, assaulting and as you rightly remind us all, even bloody murdering innocent people.
      The people who wrecked the temples in Tanjung Balai should be locked up and not allowed out again until the billions in damages have been paid.off.

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  • ross1948 19:00 on July 30, 2016 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , Buddhists, , , , Ministry of Religion, , ,   

    Tanjung Balai’s Burning Temples – A History of Bigotry! 


    Indonesian authorities detained seven suspects in northern Sumatra Island on Saturday for allegedly attacking several Buddhist temples.

    Indonesia: Police detains 7 after attacks on Buddhist temples

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    A spokeswoman for the North Sumatra provincial police said the suspects were a part of a mob that damaged at least three temples in Tanjung Balai town, near Medan, the fourth-biggest city of Indonesia…

    But the police said the attack was not aimed at the Chinese community. “This was just a (dispute between) individuals…” 

    And so it may have been.

    But local reports say the police repeatedly called on the nasty rabble to disperse but incitement on ‘social media’ brought the malignants back.

      http://www.bbc.com/indonesia/berita_indonesia/2016/07/160730_indonesia_rusuh_tanjung_balai


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    Before anyone draws conclusions, let’s remind ourselves of the history of vicious Islamist sectarian bigotry focused on a Buddhist statue in Tanjung Balai.

    Indonesia Inquisition Ministry Turns Guns Against Buddhists – Statue Downed at Islamist Behest 

    That outrageous episode took place, of course, more than five years ago, and we have a different President and, thank God, a very different Minister of Religious Affairs.

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    Once the pig-ignorant savages who committed this latest blasphemous arson are dealt with, perhaps President Jokowi could demonstrate his commitment to the pluralism he often preaches by restoring that statue in our photo to pride of place in Tanjung Balai?

    And perhaps Minister Lukman could atone for his predecessor’s shortcomings by going up thee to unveil it personally.

     

     
    • JazPen 07:47 on August 1, 2016 Permalink | Reply

      Thanks for that, Ross
      I remember your previous piece about that statue and thats why I am very dubious about the police claim its just a squabble between individuals.
      The racket from mosques is bad enough but when they turn violent against people forced to complain about the loud droning, there is no way its a personal squabble.
      The government and police dont like this real picture getting out to the world.
      Keep up the good work.

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    • Irawan 12:29 on August 1, 2016 Permalink | Reply

      The mob again shames Indonesia.

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    • Sally Kantel 17:46 on March 19, 2017 Permalink | Reply

      I never knew about how bitterly bigoted these Muslim mobs are against Buddhists.
      I thought it was just Christians who got persecuted, like those poor people you have shown us in West Java.
      I only look in on your blog now and then so I must have missed this before now.

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  • ross1948 14:56 on June 5, 2016 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , , Buddhists, , , , Dalai Lama, ,   

    The Pope’s A Dope – Should Catholics Convert To Buddhism? 


    Tibet has long had grim experience of colonisation by aliens. Thousands of young men of military age have stomped their way into and around that sad country, disrespecting and destroying its culture and way of life.

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    So Europeans today should empathise with Tibetans.

    We should listen when its legitimate leader, forced into exile by barbarous adherents of a cruel ideology, talks about Europe’s plight today.

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    Dalai Lama says there are ‘too many’ refugees in Europe…

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    The spiritual leader of Tibetans was referring to real refugees, presumably – he’s too wise to be conned by all the rubbish about ‘poor, desperate asylum’ wasters, those brutes in the photo above this paragraph.

    So we can bear with him, when he adds –

    “A human being who is a bit more fortunate has the duty to help them. …”

    But he deserves high praise indeed for this next astute observation. 


    “On the other hand, there are too many now …Europe, for example Germany, cannot become an Arab country,” he added with a laugh…”Germany is Germany.”

    And so say all the Germans…

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    …except Mama Stasis Merkel and her collaborators, bent on pandering to alien parasites.

    And another exception to the good sense rule is that oily old fool, Frances, Bishop of Rome…

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    …..whose capacity for spouting hogwash seems to increase weekly, if not daily. 


    Predators and Child Molestors

    ‘Migrants not dangerous but in danger’ Pope Francis tells children

    The Argie cretin appears oblivious to the sex-predator risks brought into Europe by Mama’s crimmigrants – German Girls Forced Into Shariah Dress-Code By Sex-Pest Syrian Ingrates!  – to whom pedophilia is a cherished part of their vile ‘culture.’

    Migrant Pedophilia – ‘Our Traditions Are Hard To Break!’ 

    I’m not much into doctrinal matters, but purely on the basis of the contrast between the Dalai Lama and the Vatican Viper, one tends to see merit in converting to Buddhism, at least from Catholicism.

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    At least there’s no risk of beheading for Catholics who use their God-given brain to make such spiritual decisions – unlike those of other creeds who defy sectarian savages that think ‘apostates’ should be killed. 

    It’s just so refreshing to hear responsible words from a religious leader these days. 

    The Dalai Lama added that “from a moral point of view too, I think that the refugees should only be admitted temporarily”.

    “The goal should be that they return and help rebuild their countries.” Dalai Lama says there are ‘too many’ refugees in Europe

     
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