Jakarta – Decent Muslims Challenge Islamist Witch-Hunt!

Home at last, and just in time, as I can hear the rain beating down outside.

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However, this morning I was delighted to wake to another sunny Jakarta day, and even more delighted to see the headline in The Jakarta Globe this week…

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We are devoted Muslims, not offended by Ahok’s statement…

The report comes from the Pulau Seribu ( Thousand Islands) – just off the northern shore of our ever-interesting capital city – islands where I once spent a most pleasant short break.

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• The islands are a popular weekend destination for less affluent people here, not expensive to reach or to stay over for a night or two.
• But they have been in the headlines a lot here recently…
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•  Jakarta’s Governor Ahok
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• …because that was where Governor Ahok made his jocular aside for which the worst elements in Indonesia want him put to death.

• “We encourage the government to process the death penalty for Ahok as soon as possible,” said Rizieq.  http://www.suara.com/news/2016/10/14/134313/

• That’s Habib Rizieq, so-called ‘high priest’ of the self-styled “Islam Defenders’ Front” – the notorious white-shirt vigilante gang, the FPI.
• But now the overwhelmingly Muslim population of those islands have made their voice heard, refuting the bigot claim that his joke was ‘blasphemy.’
• The Chairman of the Al Makmuriah Great Mosque board there, Faturrahman, set the record straight – he was actually present when Ahok made his speech that day – by saying that what Ahok said was not insulting and did not defame Islam…We are devoted Muslims, not offended by Ahok’s statement …
• It’s to be hoped that many more decent Muslims will dissociate themselves from the witch-hunt, perhaps in response to the way some of the fanatics openly talk down to them.
• Last week, the FPI, who are notoriously sexist as well as sectarian…

IslamoNazi Gauleiter – “Women Already Have Limitations, Let Alone Non-Muslims!” 

…hit a new low in talking down to Muslims who don’t share their arrogant attitude, by which I mean their claim to be more qualified than others on who is and who isn’t Muslim enough.                       Jakarta Mosque Mayhem – IslamoNazi Louts Silence Moderate! 

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Yet another Habib  -the name’s said to denote descent from their Prophet!  Habibs Galore – White-Shirt Gang Leaders Go On Trial! 

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Their Jakarta Gauleiter, Habib Novel Bakmukmin  – the same geezer who dissed women with that outburst about their ‘limitations’ – seemed to evince an almost archaic snobbery when he  called the residents who laughed upon hearing Ahok’s statement –

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‘COMMONERS!’ 

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Hell, that sounds as stuck-up as some of the pinko expats who send me insulting snobbish comments about how I so disgracefully live and work and dine out among ordinary Indonesian folks. 

 

Jakarta Mosque Mayhem – IslamoNazi Louts Silence Moderate!

Gus Nuril, in green, forced off by IslamoNazi louts

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Merdeka.com reports that a distinguished Islamic scholar, Nuril Arifin Husein, known as Gus Nuril, was silenced by  a gang of shriek-freaks from the IslamoNazi FPI, self-styled ‘Defenders of Islam.’

The incident took place in East Jakarta, in the area of Jatinegara, at the Assuada Mosque, a week ago, but I’ve only just been sent the report by one of my Indonesian readers.

He was lecturing on the origins of Islam in the archipelago when white-shirt layabouts began to scream and yell, no doubt upset by the obvious disparity between their own benighted ignorance and the words of an educated man.

But, as all too often happens when there’s an ignoramus outbreak here, the victim won’t fight back.

Gus Nuril reckons it was only a misunderstanding.

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• “I was explaining how Islam arrived from 4 countries, but when it came to the arrival from China, suddenly the sound system went dead, and the committee asked me to step down, “said Gus Nuril on Wednesday (25/2).

By strange coincidence, however, at that moment, the FPI were clamoring for his lecture to be stopped.

Gus is very much a mild-mannered Clark-Kent type. “He added that the issue would not be brought into the realm of law. He as a parent understood the behaviour of young children.   http://www.merdeka.com/peristiwa/ceramah-di-masjid-assuada-jatinegara-gus-nuril-diusir-fpi.html

Spare the rod…etc.

These vicious intolerants have been spared the rod for far too long.

Curious, I checked other news sites, and found that the IslamoNazis’ ‘high priest’ – former Fuhrer Habib Rizeiq – had squealed his support for the Hitler Youth clones’ anti-social antics.  http://nasional.rimanews.com/peristiwa/read/20150224/198112/Habib-Rizieq-Dukung-Pengusiran-Gus-Nuril

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 Rizieq

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Ahok 

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It seems Gus Nuril, who runs an Islamic boarding school in Semarang, had the audacity to express goodwill towards Jakarta’s Chinese-ethnic and Christian Governor Ahok, whom the fanatics detest on purely sectarian grounds (oh, yeah, and because Ahok ‘calls people names!‘)

Fanatic Islamist Wails At Christian Governor – “He Calls People Names!” 

The rancid bigotry of the FPI has been a source of dismay and embarrassment to decent Indonesians of all creeds for years.

Ahok wants them banned.

Not before time!  

President Jokowi holds the key to success, but will he use it?

Not according to Ms. Sidney Jones, of the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC)

“So far the government has not shown firmness in handling FPI vigilantism.”

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Jones was speaking in Jakarta, about her new book The Dark Side of Democracy: Civil Society Violence in Indonesia ‘(26/2).

http://www.merdeka.com/peristiwa/sidney-jones-sebut-pemerintah-tak-pernah-tegas-pada-fpi.html

Ms Jones is a pretty smart lady, and she went on to cite examples of Islamist lawless brutality, including the Monas Riot of 2008, the oppression of the Protestant GKI church in Bogor, and the government’s cowardly cave-in on the Miss World contest venue.

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•  Murder threat by sectarian savages

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    Monas Riot victim

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• “From all these events…the state (the security forces) obeyed the agenda of the FPI, to cancel or dissolve the activities that were considered unacceptable,” said Jones.

Very true.

And as the news from Jatinegara shows, it’s not just minority creeds that these primitive predators harass, but decent Muslims too.

If Pak Presiden can hang tough on the drug-smuggler issue, can’t he show the same determination to rescue his country from the white-clad forces of darkness, fanatics who disgust everybody with a conscience?