Bravo, Jogja Muslim Students – Freedom Fighters Enrage Jihadist Jerks!
Jogyakarta’s Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University (UIN) last Wednesday earned a gold star for academic freedom, despite the shameful efforts of its Rector to appease Islamist louts.
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A ranting mob of jihadist jerks – the Jogjakarta Islamic People’s Forum (FUI) had arrived to demand the students scrap plans to watch a controversial film about the aftermath of the PKI Communist Party’s thwarted coup in 1965. Luckily, and unusually here, the uni security had taken steps to stop the hoodlum rabble gaining access to the campus.
The Jakarta Globe tells us that the defences were reinforced by students who were prepared to fight the mob! http://thejakartaglobe.beritasatu.com/news/islamic-hard-liners-fail-halt-senyap-screening-yogya/
Hallelujah! Or, since the heroes of our story are Muslims, Alhamdullilah!
No matter what your religion, the news that young people would square up to fanatics is not just a breath of fresh air but a gladsome gale to every honourable heart in this archipelago,
But a black mark indeed to the Rector, Ahmad Minhaji, who preferred to try wheeling and dealing with the forces of darkness.
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He apparently attempted shuttle diplomacy between the mobs of protesters and students, and endeavored to persuade the organizers to resume the discussion without screening the film.
Pak Rector, your job is to champion academic freedom, NOT to act as middle-man between its defenders and its foes. Good on your students, for having none of your appeasement cr#p.
They insisted on screening the movie!
Instead of applauding his young students’ stand for freedom against Islamist thuggery, unspeakable Ahmad then appeared in apologetic mode before the mob, telling them that those inside were young students who only wanted to learn about and discuss history.
What a mealy-mouth! The proper thing to say to the likes of the FUI is SOD OFF!
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This picture was taken in another university, in Surakarta, where the university authorities buckled cravenly to a similar rabble. We covered that here- Academic Freedom in Java – College Cowers From IslamoNazi Gang!
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I haven’t seen the film. It’s called Senyap. Maybe I will sometime, but it hasn’t made it into the cinemas so far. I wonder why?
I do wish the democratic anti-communists would make a movie. They should, showing what rotten totalitarian hypocrites the PKI were (and are – some of the surviving old ratbags have yet to repudiate their evil marxist creed)
Time for Indonesia’s Red Reprobates to Face Their Guilt!
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The vicious 1960s intimidation, the book-burning (in which the intolerant old nasty, Pramoedya was prominent – his unethical role during one of the darkest periods for creativity during the Guided Democracy era, when he led the persecution of artists and literary figures who disagreed with him. (this protest is air-brushed out of most Western references nowadays, though a brief mention is to be found in an otherwise slavishly pro-Pram article in the Economist http://www.economist.com/node/168819 )
… and the importation of those 10,000 rifles from their Beijing pay-masters would make a great action movie that would teach young Indonesians that the current attempts at revisionism should be handled with care!
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Alas, what passes for the ‘intelligentsia’ here is hopelessly comsymp, desperately trying to rehab the red vermin. The Jakarta Globe is no better than it should be, and the report I’ve based this post on is marred by the inability of its author to keep his own pinko opinions out of what should be an objective news story. Get this for partisan presentation –
The mob outside insisted the rector disband the event, saying they believe the film aims to revive communism in Indonesia — which it does not — and revise history as they understand it — which in fact the film does, and admirably so, critics say.
Nobody could be more hostile to the mob outside than me. Not having seen the film, I don’t know if they’re correct in their view that the film aims to revive communism in Indonesia.
But JG readers don’t need some left-lib smart-ass to tell them whether it does or not. Equally, his opinionated quote of some nameless critics who think the film revises history admirably is a gratuitous prejudicial intrusion – whatever happened to objective reporting?
Like a Dog to its Vomit, Jakarta Globe Plays the Red Card Again!
But that’s the Jakarta Globe, of course.
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