Happy Nyepi! And Be Quiet, Please…

It’s Nyepi, Hindu Day of Silence!

Don’t expect much to happen if you’re in Bali, and if you’re not there, why not have a quiet day anyway – it’s Sunday, after all!

Enjoy Your Ascension Day – But Never Forget Bekasi!

It’s Ascension Day and here in Indonesia it’s a public holiday – with lots of religions, we get lots of holidays!

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But it’s important not to forget that, while Christians, Buddhists and Hindus are recognised religions here, and the decent Muslims among the majority creed respect their rights, there is also a viciously intolerant element, which showed its snarling ugly face a few years ago…

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

Head-Scarfed Harpies Hurl Dung and Urine at Christians 

Still There! Oppressed Christians Swelter In Jakarta! 

…and Islamist intolerance is not merely a past phenomenon, as the Hindus of Bekasi  found out this month once again.

Read all about that episode here… https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2019/05/07/plan-to-construct-hindu-temple-in-bekasi-met-with-protest.html

So no matter your religion, or even if you have none, pray that President Jokowi, now re-elected, to the fury of fanatics…

Anyone Up For ‘A Refreshing Jihad Tour?’ 

….will slap down the forces of darkness that prowl not only in Bekasi but throughout the archipelago.

Selamat Hari Raya Nyepi – No St. Patrick’s Partying In Bali!

A Happy Quiet Nyepi to all my Hindu readers…

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…and my sympathy to anyone in Bali eager to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.

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It’s not just a question of keeping the noise down.

In Bali, they even shut the airport so as to comply with the rule of absolute silence across the Isle of the Gods. It’s only for a day, so no big imposition on non-Hindus!

No worries here in Jakarta. Saturday is usually a low-key day for me. I go out on the town sufficiently during the week, so other than talking to any visitor who may drop by, there not a lot of noise under my roof.

So Will Bigot Ba’asyir Be Unleashed, Since God’s On His Side?

So that nasty old bigot Abu Bakr Ba’asyir had Habib Rizieq, former Fuhrer of the IslamoNazi FPI (self-styled ‘Defenders of Islam’) testifying on his behalf during a review of his conviction for involvement in terrorist activity.

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• Hundreds of FPI louts crowded around the scene of the hearing.

“Free Bashir, he is not a terrorist!” one cried.

Ba’asyir told the judges that based on Islamic rules, he was not guilty because he just carried out God’s orders.  http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2016/02/09/abu-bakar-ba-asyir-asks-court-be-fair-judging-his-guilt.html

Time therefore to remind anyone who may have forgotten how vicious and intolerant the old beast is, captured on video, inciting violence against Australian tourists has been made public…

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…In the video, Bashir urges those in the village to beat up tourists that disrespect Islamic ways, saying, “If there are infidels here, then beat them up. Do not tolerate them.” 

Later in the sermon, he likens non-Muslims to crawling “worms, snakes, maggots.” He also says infidels ruin moral values by exposing their skin at the beach.

Then he hammered home his hate-theme in words that expose his total rejection of the very concept of the Republic of Indonesia.

“Take a look at Bali”, he said.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-03-24/bakar-bashir-calls-for-violence-against-infidel/1081632

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• Bali is overwhelmingly Hindu.

NOT Islamic at all, so to demand that Islamic values be imposed on a Hindu island amounts to a sectarian assault NOT just on Aussie tourists but on almost the entire population of a non-Muslim province.  

There’s a wider context that needs to be taken into account. Ba’asyir is hardly alone in his disrespect for Hindu culture and customs.

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

.That wasn’t Ba’asyir, nor the FPI’s Rizieq, but the state-sponsored MUI, the so-called ‘scholars’ of the MUI.

Dr. Shri I Gusti Ngurah Arya Wedakarna MWS III, President of  the Hindu Center Of Indonesia and also Majapahit King of Bali, was seeking to open some closed bigot minds to a key tenet of the Hindu creed.

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Bali’s King

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“In respect of Eid 2012, I urge Muslims to avoid cow slaughter as a sacrifice. Maybe cows could be replaced with other animals. This is important, because in Bali, the cow is a sacred animal, and is also believed to be the vehicle of Lord Shiva. And the majority of Balinese people are adherents of Shivaism,” he said.

Muslims sacrifice animals at Idul Fitri, and most of them, for economic reasons, sacrifice goats. Here in Jakarta, cows too get the chop, but there’s absolutely no religious requirement to do so.  

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• Anyone with even the tiniest knowledge of Hinduism, or even the tiniest respect for the multi-faith basis on which Indonesia was founded and is enshrined in its constitution, would have respected the king’s appeal.

But ‘anyone’ in this context clearly did not include the MUI.

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

Yes, killing cows is legal, but NOT  obligatory. In other words, they can disrespect the Hindu faith, but Hindus had better kow-tow to theirs.

If these bigots merely made such crass intolerant declarations, okay, most people would simply dismiss their outbursts as benighted arrogance and ignore them. However, as I say, the MUI is sponsored, funded, by the Indonesian Government. And their intolerance is enforced by that government’s security forces.

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

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

The idea of debating matters of faith and religious observance – which most sane people would regard as a hall-mark of any civilised society – is alien to Islamist fanatics.

Why?

Maybe they’re incapable of theological argument.

Or maybe they just feel the rest of us have no right to challenge their sectarian diktats, a mind-set perfectly exemplified by Amidhan, MUI’s top man, a couple of years ago…

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 Amidhan

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…when he told people who felt non-Muslims should not have to comply with Islamist demands at Ramadhan.. 

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

And don’t let’s forget this fine fanatic fellow!

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Syamsul Maarif,  General Secretary of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) Jakarta

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“If the act of adultery is by a married person, then stoning is the sentence, while if unmarried, then it’s whipping,” he said.
 http://www.suarapembaruan.com/home/mui-dukung-pelaku-kumpul-kebo-dipidanakan/32705

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Jakarta Islamist ‘Scholars’ – Adultery, Co-Habiting? Stoning and Whipping! 

So don’t for a moment think that Ba’asyir’s thinking is unusually freakish,not here, not these days.

Cikeusik Anniversary Looms, D-Day for Indonesian Innocents! 

Indonesia faces a real danger – not so much creeping but galluping shariah.   ‘Creeping Shariah,’ Warns Prof. Muhammed, As Jakarta Dims! 

What’s happened this month in Bangka illustrates this process all too horribly, and I’m glad so many decent Indonesians, including many honourable Muslims, agree. 

It is shocking that government officials always give in to the demands of hardline groups. There is a paradox in the way the government works so hard to eradicate terrorism, but gives free reign to those groups opposing pluralism and diversity.  http://en.tempo.co/read/news/2016/02/10/314743742/Depriving-Ahmadiyah-of-Their-Rights