Jakarta Post Trumpophobes? Give ‘Em Mirrors For Xmas!

Dehumanization still prevails, as evident, for example, in United States President Donald Trump’s warning about using violence to keep immigrants from the country’s poor neighbors at bay…   https://www.thejakartapost.com/academia/2018/12/22/a-silenced-night.html

WHAT A LOT OF RUBBISH!

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Skip the telling omission of the key adjective ‘ILLEGAL’ that should always be lodged securely in front of the word ‘immigrants’ in discussion of the Honduras Horde.

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Elaborately Planned” Caravan Brings Human Traffickers & Violent Gangbangers to Guatemala                                                 https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2018/10/elaborately-planned-caravan-brings-human-traffickers-violent-gangbangers-to-guatemala/

Skip the omission of the fact that even Mexican citizens on that border have demanded that those crimmigrants be sent back to where they belong.

Migrant caravan: Mexico deports group that stormed US border

There’s nothing at all ‘dehumanising‘ about any head of state taking responsible steps to defend his country’s sovereign frontiers.

America has more than enough undesirable aliens without importing more.

ICE bust of sex offenders underscores horrors of sanctuary cities   https://www.washingtontimes.com/…/ice-bust-of-sex-offenders-underscores-horrors

http://jw.structure.email/members-newslink/newslink-ice-arrests-6-5k-convicted-murderer-sex-offender-illegal-aliens-this-year

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I’m sure the American Ambassador in Jakarta will have been advised of this insulting JP rant and one hopes he will compose a corrective letter to whichever of that coy clique, the ‘editorial board’ of the Jakarta Post, he can put a name to.

It’s VERY telling that whoever wrote their offensive tripe felt it prudent not to sign it, preferring to hide behind the anonymity of the ‘board.’

What it tells us is that the Jakarta Post’s ruling clique is no more courageous today than it was when it held its collective tongue on its pay-masters’…

…the business empire, Kompas Gramedia, of which the JP is part  –

…collusion with sectarian zealot book-burning, an outrageous Nazi-style assault on freedom of expression.

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Any newspaper purporting to be concerned with ‘dehumanisation’ would have erupted in editorial thunder when that took place.

But not a peep of condemnation from the Jakarta Post ‘editorial board!’

Whether their sickening silence was because they approved of the bigots who aped the followers of Adolf Hitler…

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German Nazi book-burning, 1930s

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…or because they cowered from upsetting the collaborators in the parent company, who knows?

But it certainly disqualifies that sad section of the Indonesian media from pontificating on what is ‘dehumanising.’

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Perhaps somebody should run down to the shops tomorrow and buy a bunch of mirrors, so that every member of the JP board can make good use of them on Christmas morning.

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Or else use the above JP link to their ‘editorial’ and ask the anonymous clique, via the comment column, why their ‘Christmas Message’ includes not only a rant against Trump, but a one-side witter about ‘Palestine’ – with no mention of Hamas terrorism?.

 

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British Council Embraces Hacks Long-Silent On Book-Burning?

As you may know, the British Council is funded by UK tax-payers. It calls itself a ‘charity’ but is very much part of the Foreign Office apparatus.

“There is a widespread assumption that The British Council is a wing of our Secret Intelligence Services, however minor. Officially it is no such thing but there are connections……..”   Feuds and turf wars put Fresh Talent flagship plan in jeopardy

Unfortunately, UK tax-payers don’t get to know much about that sort of thing, nor do they get much say in what the BC does “Speaker Michael Martin in secrecy row over British Council trips”. The Daily Telegraph

And THEN there are such activities as….

Collaboration with Red China’s communist censors…

Ma Jian protest paints the London Book Fair red.

Bringing Censors to the Book Fair.

…and promotion of ‘gay’ propaganda…

In 2015, the British Council launcheda free, online, 10-day LGBT film festival…the first global online LGBT film festival  .^{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Council}

If you are a Brit tax-payer, maybe you think that’s an outrageous abuse of your money.

Or maybe you are okay with that sort of nonsense.

However, today, a look at the British Council’s open collaboration with a newspaper infamous here for its failure to condemn IslamoNazi book-burning!

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“Writing on Diversity”, an event hosted by The Jakarta Post and The Jakarta Post Writing Center in partnership with Raffles Hotel Jakarta and British Council Indonesia.

The report adds that those present included former chief editor of The Jakarta Post Endy Bayuni…the discussion focused on how writers can employ diversity to help counter rising intolerance.    http://www.thejakartapost.com/multimedia/2018/04/02/writing-on-diversity-taking-up-stories-against-intolerance.html

I don’t know about the ‘writers’ present, but I do know about Endy Bahyuni, who, as noted, for some years held a senior editorial position at the Jakarta Post.

Endy has more than once presented himself as a fan of free expression and religious tolerance.

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“Don’t give any room to the hard-liners,” said Endy…“Please cover them when they’re violating the law, but don’t give space to small group of people when they rally against something absurd. They used the media effectively and deceive the media to suit their own means. ”http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/indonesian-media-needs-to-cover-religion-not-radicals-iarj/ 

That was a year after Gramedia collaborated with the bigots, and we duly took note!

Bayuni’s Bravado, Gramedia’s Grovel, Jakarta Post’s Double Standards 

That occasion, a couple of years ago, would have been a golden opportunity for Endy to redeem his newspaper’s good name with a spirited public denunciation of the Gramedia company, of whose business empire the JP is part.

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Alas, he did not take that opportunity, nor, so far as news reports tell us, did he do so at the Raffles Hotel this month.

Nor, to the best of my knowledge, has any member of the editorial clique ever done so. 

Despite its frequent blathering about the virtues of pluralism, I have yet to see any JP editorial condemnation of Gramedia’s disgusting grovel to sectarian censorship, which occurred five years ago…

….an episode which culminated in an action replay, jointly supervised by Gramedia and Islamist ‘scholars,’ of the sort of conflagration – book-burning- which characterised Hitler’s Germany. 

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Germany, 1930s (above)

Indonesia 2012 (below)

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I would suggest the British Council be instructed by the UK Embassy here in Jakarta to cut all ties with this pathetic rag until the editors thereof grow a set and disown their parent company’s blazing appeasement of Islamist bigotry 

Stop Being Wussies, Jakarta Post! Condemn Gramedia Collabos!

A long-winded Easter editorial in the Jakarta Post ends up with this stirring exhortation to young Indonesian Christians.

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Followers of Christ should rise and enhance their contribution for their nation, not just for their own groups. Most Indonesians are tolerant, moderate and inclusive.

The number of intolerant people is indeed rising. But the tendency should not excuse you from serving your nation and country. Happy Easter!

And this is indeed an admirable sentiment, as is their headline…

EDITORIAL: Easter: Stop being wussies

http://www.thejakartapost.com/academia/2018/03/29/editorial-easter-stop-being-wussies.html …

But it’s very easy to shrill thus from within an editorial ivory tower, a much safer position than was that of the Christians, young and old, in Bekasi, or Bogor, two cities that border Jakarta…

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

Head-Scarfed Harpies Hurl Dung and Urine at Christians 

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

…when bigoted savages, neither arrested nor charged by the police on the scene, assailed them viciously, vilely and violently.

Both congregations victimised in the above reports remain unable to worship in their churches – Indonesian readers know all about this and overseas readers can check the facts easily enough.

But let’s be fair. The Jakarta Post itself knows all about intolerant Islamist intimidation.

Their parent company, Gramedia, was faced with Islamist intrusion into their rights a few years ago.

The management cowered and caved in, violating basic principles of free expression, in an action replay of Nazi Germany’s book-burning atrocities.

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Never once has the JP’s editorial clique ever condemned that shameful collaboration with sectarian fanatics, not that I’ve ever seen or heard of, at least.

But it’s never too late to do the right thing.

STOP BEING WUSSIES, JAKARTA POST!

Denounce the craven crawlers whose anti-democratic bonfire that day disgraced Indonesia.

Well Said, Jakarta Globe! But Will Gramedia Repent?

Thankfully in the modern era, no one in their right mind would burn books but censorship is still widely practiced. 

http://jakartaglobe.id/archive/editorial-let-courts-not-stores-decide-on-books-fate/

The editorial in the Jakarta Globe concerns a local issue, about bookstores removing books from their shelves that might, so it’s said, embarrass local political notables with “unverifiable information.”  If you’re interested please use the link.

But the point about book-burning is something that will resonate with many around the world…

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Nazis in the Thirties, burning books

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….who learned at school about such conflagrations in Nazi Germany.

Many will applaud the JG editor’s condemnation of such intolerant, anti-democratic activity.

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But not their rivals in the Jakarta Post, methinks, whose owners, the vast Gramedia business empire, committed such a crime against reason only a few years ago, and has NEVER repented of the book-burning that shamed Jakarta.

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Gramedia’s outrageous literary arson was all the more reprehensible in that it was perpetrated at the behest of arrant Islamist bigots.

We keep asking when the Jakarta Post editors will have the guts and/or decency to deplore the Gramedia book-burning.

But few others on the local scene have been prepared to swell our protests into what should be a nationwide chorus.

Perhaps now that the Jakarta Globe has, albeit obliquely, dragged book-burning into the spotlight, others may now join in and shame the culprits.

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