Hey, Palestinians! Quit With The Victim Card – Till You Stop Victimising Christian Arabs!

“The systematic persecution of Christian Arabs living in Palestinian areas is being met with nearly total silence by the international community, human rights activists, the media and NGOs…” — Justus Reid Weiner, attorney, “Palestinian Christians: The plight of believers under Palestinian rule”

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15318/persecuted-palestinian-christians

We have often enough reported on the persecution of Christians here in Indonesia.

Statue of Jesus wrecked by sectariian swine in Temanggung

Sectarian Savages’ Slap on the Wrist. Church-Burners Get ‘Fair and Mild’ Sentences

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The case of Yasmin Church, in Bogor, just outside Jakarta, shut down by bigots years ago and still sealed off today, despite both Supreme Court and Ombudsman rulings in the Christian congregation’s favour…

Java Christians STILL Forced To Worship On Pavement!

X-Rated Xmas – Foul-Mouths Bully Christians, As ‘Moderate’Mayor Denies They Exist!’ 

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…is a glaring example of inquity. Incredibly, there was a meeting a week ago, Tim 7 Dibentuk Selesaikan Masalah Pembangunan GKI …  which discussed the GKI Yasmin case.

If there was an ounce of commitment to religious liberty, that ‘moderate’ Mayor of Bogor would have told the fanatics to ‘F-Off’ and unsealed the church. But let’s not be silly – there’s no chance of that.

Another example is the HKBP Filadelfia church in Tambun, Bekasi…

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

Head-Scarfed Harpies Hurl Dung and Urine at Christians 

…where eight years ago filthy savages infamously assailed the church-goers watched by inert police, and that church has not been restored to its congregation.

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However, today, I am directing you to the plight of Palestinian Christians, because, as that man quoted at the top of the page says, nobody seems to give a damn about them, certainly not the United Nations, and we hear precious little from the ‘NGOs’ that whine constantly about Israel’s shortcomings.

Just read the Gatestone article and see what you think.

Java Christians STILL Forced To Worship On Pavement!

A trip into town today, to observe the lack of religious liberty in Indonesia today.

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Still There! Oppressed Christians Swelter In Jakarta! 

In fact, the oppression of the GKI Yasmin congregation has gone on for years, since the Islamist bigot Mayor of Bogor shut them down by sealing the site of their house of worship.

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Vicious savages and the Bogor civic militia physically prevented them exercising their right to worship there.

The police watched the victims of Islamist intolerance pray outside the sealed site.

Please note, decent Muslims, like Lily Wahid…

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Lily Wahid, one of Indonesia’s honourable Muslims, stands up to IslamoNazi thuggery outside the sealed Yasmin church in Bogor

….stood shoulder to shoulder with the Christians against the vile sectarians, but to no avail!

Tears That Cry to Heaven – More Christians Denied Religious Liberty in W.Java 

The church used the law of the land and fought back, and rulings from both the Supreme Court and the Ombudsman were in their favour….

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‘Disegel’ – sealed, to those who wanted only to worship in their own church!

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…but neither former President SBY nor current President Jokowi ordered the police to enforce the high court order.

Meanwhile the old bigot mayor was replaced by a ‘moderate…’

X-Rated Xmas – Foul-Mouths Bully Christians, As ‘Moderate’Mayor Denies They Exist!’ 

…who has devalued that adjective ever since.

So today I went along…

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Every other week, every month, for six  – or is it seven? – or more years

…and there they were, many years into their struggle for justice, on the pavement across the road from Jokowi’s State Palace. They have for long kept a vacant stool for their President, should he care to join them – he never has!

 

Elections next year, when Jokowi will again face his rival Prabowo, and it’s with a heavy heart that – since both have chosen shariah fanatics as their running mates – I must predict that the persecution of the Yasmin Protestants will not cease.

How sad for this lovely country!

Still There! Oppressed Christians Swelter In Jakarta!

Unlike our earlier post today…Theresa May Battles For Britain – Brexit Or Bust! …this is no joke!

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I had hoped to join the oppressed Christians this Easter Weekend, but it’s hard to be sure if they will appear on Good Friday or today, Sunday…

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Lily Wahid, one of Indonesia’s decent Muslims stands up to IslamoNazi thuggery outside the sealed Yasmin church in Bogor

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…and with a guest to attend to yesterday, I didn’t get to town.

Turns out that I therefore missed their worship on the street opposite President Jokowi’s Palace…

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A previous occasion, but it’s a regular occurrence

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….but they show up every two weeks, a regular rebuke to the Government’s failure to enforce the Supreme Court ruling that the GKI Yasmin congregation have been illegally denied access to their house of worship in Bogor, West Java.

So I’ll go to show solidarity with Yasmin and Cp.  on another day. This morning I trekked across Jakarta to the roughly 100-year-old Anglican church in Menteng…

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All Saints, Jakarta -for a description, see

Christmas Day in Jakarta – A Non-Political Post for a Change! 

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– …because, unlike many local congregations, who worship at daybreak, the Anglicans had a 11.15am start! Just got back after a rainy homeward journey!

Friday’s service must have been tough going in that baking weather…

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Every other week, every month, for five or more years

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…but not as gruelling as the hideous sectarian brutality they have suffered on other holy days…

X-Rated Xmas – Foul-Mouths Bully Christians, As ‘Moderate’Mayor Denies They Exist!’ 

…as has the other congregation that also gathers with the Yasmin folk downtown.

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

Head-Scarfed Harpies Hurl Dung and Urine at Christians 

It’s been five years or more since they were on the receiving end of evil Islamists’ interpretation of Indonesia’s constitutional principle of religious liberty. And that was nothing new.

Here’s a picture of a lady pastor in Bekasi, from years ago, viciously assaulted by a cowardly brute.

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Islamonazi FPI Rejoice, as Anti-Church Knife Thug Exits Jail 

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Just check out Yasmin in my search box. It’s a sad, bad story, and it continues…

Oppressed Christians To Worship In Jakarta D-G’s Mansion?

We have noted, without any obvious delight, how Jakarta’s new Deputy Governor, Sandiaga Uno, is eager to promote ‘shariah tourism’ in the city.

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Get Your Tickets Soon – Jakarta Shariah Tourism Boom? 

But how about his latest statement, that the super-posh mansion allocated to him as his ‘official residence’ in the capital’s classy Kuningan district, will now be ‘open 24 hours a day and seven days a week‘ for ‘Quran study groups?’

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2017/10/23/deputy-governors-official-residence-open-for-religious-activities.html

If that were all he said, non-Muslims would rightly be concerned.

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…good to see that he was careful to add ‘and citizens activities,” and – wait for it…

  ‘for Christian citizens who wanted to hold Sunday services..

And let’s not forget that in modern Indonesia there are some ‘Christian citizens‘ who may not only ‘want‘ but also desperately NEED somewhere to hold Sunday services!

There’s the congregation of Filadelfia HKBP church…

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

Head-Scarfed Harpies Hurl Dung and Urine at Christians 

…and there’s the congregation of GKI Yasmin church..…

Oppressed Christians In The Street Heat, In Pluralist Indonesia 

X-Rated Xmas – Foul-Mouths Bully Christians, As ‘Moderate’Mayor Denies They Exist!’ 

…who still, years after they were shamelessly prevented from using their churches to worship God, come together, every other Sunday, to hold services on the street, across from President Jokowi’s palace, services I sometimes attend.

Will our new Deputy Governor drop by next month, to extend an invitation?

 

Oppressed Christians In The Street Heat, In Pluralist Indonesia

Just got home, late afternoon, and it’s still hot outdoors.

Every year, every other week, these brave, persecuted Christians have been worshipping on Jakarta’s street, forced to do so because the Government of Indonesia will not enforce a ruling from their own Supreme Court.

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Two weeks ago, the pre-Easter Service, across the street from President Jokowi’s Palace

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The endless torment of these innocent people is an affront to anyone with a sense of justice. But the engrained Islamist intolerance among many here, not most but many, has to be seen and heard to be believed.

Take the ‘moderate’ Mayor of Bogor, where the GKI Yasmin congregation’s sealed church is located.

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His predecessor was a frothing fanatic, and when Bima Arya was elected a couple of years ago, a lot of us seriously thought this might herald a new era of religious liberty.

Instead, we had to publish the reality, under this headline.

X-Rated Xmas – Foul-Mouths Bully Christians, As ‘Moderate’Mayor Denies They Exist!’ 

So today, Easter Sunday, off I went to show solidarity on the roadside opposite President Jokowi’s Palace.

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Persecuted Protestants begin worship.

I took these two photos (above and below) myself today- sorry if they’re not high quality.

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The sign records the sadfact that this is the 142nd time they’ve been here on the street, instead of their own church, which was sealed by vicious sectarian bigots

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It’s been the practice of these oppressed Christians to reserve one of their little plastic seats for Jokowi, in case he cares enough to join them.

But, presumably to underline his oft-proclaimed commitment to plurlism and religious liberty, he’s never crossed the street to join them…

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Rizieq, far left, Jokowi with microphone

So Has Indonesia Come To This? Paradise Lost? 

…an interesting contrast with his readiness to appear on the same platform with the blood-thirsty Islamist Habib Rizieq not long ago.

 

 

Xmas On Street For Victims of Indonesia’s Islamists

Even a God-awful newspaper can sometimes do something good.

That was my reaction when I saw that the Jakarta Post had reported on the Sunday service opposite President Jokowi’s Palace downtown, held by two congregations that have suffered and are still suffering persecution by the nastiest Islamist bigots in the land.

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Churches hold public service as reminder of their struggle

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2016/08/14/churches-hold-public-service-as-reminder-of-their-struggle.html

Mind you, as far as I know, these oppressed Christians hold such protest services every second Sunday, so while the JP’s interest is welcome, it’s a pity they don’t report on the shameful state of affairs on a twice-monthly basis.  

That report at the top of our page was published way back, several months ago. The oppressed Christians were there again today – I was in town but saw no sign of them, only to get home at 1.30pm and see on the internet that they planned a 2pm kick-off. 

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The churches concerned, GKI Yasmin and HKBP Filadelfia, are denied access to their places of worship by a combination of brutal fanatic gangs and local governments which either lack the guts to stand up for religious liberty or are in cahoots with the vilest jihadist elements.

Bekasi’s Islamist Regime – ‘We Won’t Allow Religious Liberty If Bigot Thugs Object!’ 

That report concerns Bekasi, one such local authority, but another, Bogor, also in West Java, right next door to Jakarta, has recently shown its continuing contempt for civil and religious liberty…  

Bigoted Bogor – City Seeks IslamoNazi Link-Up! 

…and its mayor, once described, in all seriousness, as a ‘moderate’ Muslim, has shown himself every bit as coldly indifferent to the rights of these poor Christians as his avowedly Islamist predecessor who kicked off their oppression years ago.

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 Bogor Mayor Bima Arya

X-Rated Xmas – Foul-Mouths Bully Christians, As ‘Moderate’Mayor Denies They Exist!’ 

As for the other church, HKBP in Tambun, our reports on what they’ve had to go through in recent years are horrific to read.

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

Nor was that the only occasion these peaceful Protestants faced that sort of stinking barrage from a stinking rabble!

• Head-Scarfed Harpies Hurl Dung and Urine at Christians 

• But while IslamoNazi thugs and benighted local local bigwigs are deplorable, what’s most distressing, perhaps, is the national government’s failure to enforce the law – in GKI Yasmin’s case, a ruling from the highest court in the archipelago.
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• President SBY’s indifference to their plight was perhaps unsurprising, but I’m sure everyone who voted for Jokowi believed he was genuinely committed to the religious pluralism which was bequeathed to Indonesia by the nation’s founding fathers.
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• Alas, as the JP report reminds us, he has not ordered the police to take the side of justice, instead of, at best, choosing to act as an umpire between the persecuted and their persecutors – and that’s at best; in Bekasi, the cops have shown shocking attitudes…
• Cops Stop West Java Worship, Appease Islamist Louts Christians Abused by Islamist Mob, Cops Fail to Enforce the Law ‘Off With His Head!’ – Jakarta Cops – No Sweat on Murder Threat! 
• …and after the recent outbreaks of Islamist evil in other parts of the archipelago –Tanjung Balai’s Burning Temples – A History of Bigotry!   – a lot of people must be wondering what, if any, steps the President is planning to take to redeem Indonesia’s reputation.
• The very least he could have done today was walk across the street from his Palace and take the seat always reserved for him by these heroic congregants.

Bigoted Bogor – City Seeks IslamoNazi Link-Up!

Bogor is a place I’ve been to a  few times, to admire their famous botanical gardens.

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In recent years, I’ve been in no hurry to go back, no interest in spending my mite of ‘tourist’ cash in a community whose commitment to religious liberty is so threadbare that their so-called ‘moderate’ mayor denies the very existence of the persecuted Protestant congregation of the GKI Yasmin church.

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 Bogor Mayor Bima Arya

X-Rated Xmas – Foul-Mouths Bully Christians, As ‘Moderate’Mayor Denies They Exist!’ 

Alas, there’s little likelihood of improvement, given the news last month that the Bogor regency DPRD – the local authority – has declared it wants to synergize with the IslamoNazi FPI.

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FPI’s major contribution can be made through their scholarly contribution, the role to co-educate and strengthen the faith of the people in the area.

Kabupaten Bogor Ingin Bersinergi dengan FPI

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Scholarly FPI members

(are masks a sign of their modesty about their academic prowess?)

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We read in Republika.com that the Chairman of the Bogor Regency, Ade Ruhandi, visited the FPI headquarters in the village of Sukagalih, Megamendung subdistrict, Bogor Regency.

 And Lucky Ade got to meet with the FPI’s ‘high priest,’ Habib Rizieq Shihab.

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• Ade, I think, is on the right-hand side. Why any police office in uniform would be in a photo op with IslamoNazi ex-cons, I don’t know. Next to the cop is Rizieq, and next to him is the notorious sectarian lout Munirman -read about him here – Look Who’s Talking? FPI Lout Munarman Calls Ahok Arrogant! 
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• I don’t know how ‘scholarly’ Ade himself claims to be, but he certainly seems not to have read very much of news and current events in Indonesia over the past decade or more.

”For me Rizieq is a great scholar, nationwide.” Ade openly expressed his desire to reach out to clerics to jointly build Bogor regency. ” History has proved that the role of scholars is needful for this nation. This is what we expect from FPI, ” he said.

Oh, yeah? ‘Scholars needful for the nation?

Gimme a break! Here’s what a lot of ‘scholars’ here, and not just those in the FPI, are like. 

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The attitude of the Majapahit King of Bali to banning cow slaughter is damaging to tolerance in Indonesia, according to the Deputy Secretary General of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), Dr Amirsyah Tambunan. The Bali King has no appreciation of what Indonesia’s about..

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‘Scholar’ Amirsyah

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Amirsyah said that free speech is a cherished thing in Indonesia. However, in the case of sacrifices, the King must respect the religious rights of Muslims. “In Islamic belief, slaughtering cows, goats and sheep is legal, whichever they can afford,” he said…“Other religions also have to respect Muslims (who believe cows are kosher )” he explained.   http://www.hidayatullah.com/read/25607/25/10/2012/mui:-sikap-raja-bali-melarang-qurban-sapi-menodai-toleransi-.html

Bali Hindu King – Don’t Kill Our Cows! Muslim ‘Scholars’ – Get Lost!! 

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Many if not most so-called ‘scholars’ are intolerant, arrogant and bigoted. These links concern the official government-funded MUI, the Indonesian Council of ‘Scholars.’

Cops – “Islamist ‘Scholars’ Can Veto Religious Liberty” 

Islamist ‘Scholars’ – “Don’t Complain if You’re Attacked!” 

‘Adam Created By Angel?” Islamist ‘Scholars’Call the Cops! 

Clitoral Clip? No, ‘Scraping’ Suffices! TELL Us, Islamist Scholars Why Do It?

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Back to Bogor  –

Just when you think that his ludicrously sycophantic  outburst could not produce any more belly-laughs, Ade goes on to say that Rizieq was the role model for every Muslim in Bogor.

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Habib Rizieq (left) with infamous advocate of violence Abu Bakr Ba’asyir (currently doing time for terrorism!)

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Ade added that he fully expected the presence of Rizieq can make the region safe and orderly.

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As you can see, the FPI does indeed have a gift for making people feel ‘safe and orderly.’

Don’t go to Bogor!

Intolerance in Indonesia – When Oppression’s No Longer News!

Up early today, as somebody wants to meet me for lunch in town, and traffic here means a long journey is entirely possible.

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I had another mostly sunny Sunday in Jakarta the other day, spent at home as I had a visitor. But today, my thoughts turn to next weekend, a holiday weekend, of course.

I’ve been checking out ‘news search’ sites to see if the persecuted Christians here are holding their Good Friday or Easter Sunday services across the street from President Jokowi’s Palace in downtown Jakarta.

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• The Protestant Yasmin and Filadelfia congregations, their rights unprotected by the authorities, and brutally maltreated by Islamist mobs…

X-Rated Xmas – Foul-Mouths Bully Christians, As ‘Moderate’Mayor Denies They Exist!’ 

Head-Scarfed Harpies Hurl Dung and Urine at Christians 

… have been doing just that, every second Sunday, for some years now. Despite court rulings, they are still denied access to their own churches in West Java.

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• When Jokowi was elected, many people, including myself, believed he’d meant what he said about religious tolerance.

But he’s not restored these people’s rights.

Java Heat – Oppressed Christians Worship In Jakarta Sun – Jokowi No Show! 

They are nice people.

I’ve gone along every so often as part of my sunny Sunday walkabouts, just to show a little solidarity. They exemplify what used to be the hall-mark of this multi-faith country.

It’s not just various Christian denominations who show up, but also oppressed Muslim minorities, like the Shia .Scholars’ Escalate Java Jihad – Another Creed Outlawed? and Ahmadiyah Victim of Islamist Murder Mob Gets Six Months in the Slammer 

When Ramadhan ends, I’ve seen the Christians there hoisting banners, with greetings to the Muslim majority in the archipelago.

But regular readers know all this.

I try to focus on their plight frequently, because the media here do not. Sure, if some particularly vile outburst occurs, but not frequently enough!

If I were an Indonesian editor, I’d be so consumed with shame at what’s being done in my name to these decent, innocent folk…

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I’ll keep checking the news, as another Easter approaches.

 

And So It Is Xmas, And Those Churches Still Sealed!

And so it is Christmas…and what have you done?

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• A good question to put to President Jokowi when dawn breaks over Jakarta on 25th December.
• The persecuted Christians of Indonesia will certainly be asking it, especially the good people of GKI Yasmin congregation and their HKBP friends from the equally oppressed church in Bekasi.

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• In all honesty, the answer from the State Palace will have to be a resounding silence, for NOTHING has been done to remedy the sectarian injustice suffered by these innocent Protestants.

I won’t go through all the misery, violence and disgusting treatment visited on these folk over recent years, merely offering you a few links to take you back over what’s gone on.

Jakarta’s Oppressed – Ascension Brass Band Worship! No Sewage, Urine This Year! 

  X-Rated Xmas – Foul-Mouths Bully Christians, As ‘Moderate’Mayor Denies They Exist! 

The last time I went into town to join them was their hundredth service there – they gather every second Sunday – and I’ll darned sure try to show up for at least one of the Christmas events reported in the Jakarta Post…

…Advent on December 20 at 1 p.m., while the Christmas service would be held on Dec. 25 at 2 p.m. All are set to take place in front of the State Palace.  http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/12/03/gki-yasmin-prepares-interfaith-christmas-celebration.html

I think I mentioned last time that there was a seat ( they have to bring along the little plastic stools, or just stand there in broiling heat or pouring rain) reserved – but empty, of course – for the President.

Wouldn’t it be a wonderful thing if he decided to walk across the street from his stately home and put give meaning to his frequent words about Indonesia being a land of religious tolerance.

But he won’t. He’s scheduled to be far away on Christmas Day…but what’s he doing on the 20th?

Couldn’t he make their day by proving his oft-quoted commitment to pluralism? 

 

Bogor’s Mayor Cowers From Bigotry – West Java Shamed AGAIN!

Disgusting tale of bigotry, from Bogor, West Java, today, no surprise, alas, because that city’s Mayor Bima Arya has a miserable record of cowering from fanatics, despite his pre-election reputation as a ‘pluralist’ and ‘moderate.’

 

Now he’s banned the Shiite minority from holding their annual Ashura event today.

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 Why?

Because a bunch of Islamist fanatics want it banned, and Hizonna lacks the guts to order his plentiful civic militia to safeguard freedom of religion!

Again, no surprise, because the militia, known here as the SatPol PP, have a shameful record in that respect, better known for enforcing Bogor’s illegal prevention of Christians from worshipping in their own church!

Mayor Bima’s the bright boy who summed up that issue by telling the GKI Yasmin congregation that they don’t exist, so why should he act justly towards them!

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  X-Rated Xmas – Foul-Mouths Bully Christians, As ‘Moderate’Mayor Denies They Exist!’ 

No matter both the Supreme Court and the National Ombudsman both found in favour of the ‘non-existent’ Christians!.

This latest grovelling by authorities comes after shocking scenes in Bandung, also West Java, where would-be celebrants were forced by hard-liners to cut short a similar event.

An odd phrase, ‘hardliners.’  

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A more accurate term might be sectarian savages, unhindered by the police.  

A mere 120 people claiming to be “defending” the dominant Sunni interpretation of the faith interrupted an Ashura celebration at the Sidolig sports stadium, forcing an early end to the event attended by thousands of people.

This victory for jihadist louts occurred despite the presence of a thousand cops, all armed and trained but evidently over-awed by the evil intolerants, because although they prevented the hard-liners from entering, still the law-abiding Shia had to be escorted out of the stadium.

The Jakarta Globe journo must have a sense of humour, because he writes that it was not immediately clear why the massive police force didn’t prevent the activists from disturbing the event.

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No, not so – the important thing is that religious liberty was crushed once more, because nobody gave the order to the police on duty to draw their guns and subdue the scum.

“Our duty was to ensure security,” he said. “We had prepared a thousand officers.”

But the worshippers were denied the security they had a right to expect, because the 1000 officers didn’t maintain security- they let the jihadist jerks attain their obnoxious objective!

I see President Jokowi is currently out of town, visiting Obama.

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Well, he won’t benefit much from that rat, a cultural marxist who gives not a fig for freedom of religion.

But a lot of Indonesians do care about their country’s reputation. And they are wondering when Jokowi will live up to his pluralist promises made during his election campaign.

Noody wants action replays of his predecessor’s supine record. SBY to ask the world to ban blasphemy | The Jakarta Post SBY’s pandering to Islamist extremists was an embarrassment, not least when he urged the world to adopt an international ‘blasphemy law,’ replicating the draconian statute here under which an innocent Shia cleric was sentenced to prison for preaching his own faith.

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Tajul, one of Indonesia’s prisoners of conscience https://rossrightangle.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/indonesia-shariah-fanatics-howl-for-blood/

If only Jokowi would order his National Police to enforce that Supreme Court ruling in Bogor, and to confront the foes of freedom who pollute his beautiful archipelago.