As some of you will have discerned by now, I’m not currently in Indonesia and my eye has not been on the news-ball as much as usual.
So this halal horror story, an example of the nasty intolerance which provokes ‘Islamophobia’ around the world, dates from last week.
But it’s instructive, so here it is.

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My headline refers to Sumatra, but the nightmarish outbreak of sectarian violence in Tanjung Balai Tanjung Balai’s Burning Temples – A History of Bigotry! is in a different part of that island from Deli Serdang, where ignoramuses have got the Islamist local government pandering to their worst sectarian prejudices.
It’s a campaign to stamp out local eateries run by the Karo people, eateries that specialise in pork.
But you can judge the sort of bone-headed mentality in Deli just by reading this quote from one of the nasty little agitators in the Jakarta Post report, a jerk named Ibnu Hajar.
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- He declared that the presence of the BPK eateries along that section of the highway was very disturbing to him because the majority of people living in the area were Muslims.
SO?
What’s ‘disturbing’ about the fact some people have different dietary inclinations from you? Never mind that the Karo people are the ethnic group that was there first.
The halal whiners are new-comers, or the spawn thereof, pushy gits, laying down the law on those who, in terms of identity with the territory, are their elders and – given the halal whiners’ arrogance – their betters, too.
Can’t these whiners just grow up, live and let live, get a life, the way civilised people do?
I don’t object to folks eating halal in my neighbourhood, or at the table next to mine in a resto, so why should schmucks like Ibnu object to people who prefer pork to whatever he shoves down his gob?
Oh, but he’s so tolerant, really.
Ibnu said that they would not ban anyone from selling foods like BPK, but the sellers had to pay attention to their locations. “Don’t sell non-halal foods like BPK in a Muslim neighborhood because it is not good…”
What backward, benighted bigotry!
Pork IS good! Eating it IS good. Selling it to those who want to buy it IS good.
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Nobody is forcing Ibnu or his fellow-whiners to eat it.
NOBODY has to like it, eat it or buy it or sell it, UNLESS they choose.
But freedom to choose is anathema to the likes of Ibnu. Everyone in the vicinity has to toe the line, bow and scrape to ignoramuses who lack the mental capacity to grasp the simplest aspects of pluralism.
I don’t want to force-feed the Ibnus of this world with pork, but I do think they need to be force-fed some crumbs of the pluralism that Indonesia’s supposed to be about.
And sadly there are LOADS of Ibnus up there, hundreds of people from different Islamic organizations,who rallied to demand the closure of all the BPK eateries including the famous BPK Tesalonika that has a prominent location on the trans-Sumatra highway at Kilometer 29. They also urged the regency administration to act quickly to close them down.

Nasty sectarians rally against eateries
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Now you expect that sort of malignant behaviour from the IslamoNazis, and the JP reports that the FPI white-shirt thug gang were indeed involved.
But should we expect ‘moderate’ Muslims to be spouting this kind of hateful hogwash too?
Alas, we must, because Ibnu is identified as not only the protest coordinator but also the chairman of Muhammadiyah’s Deli Serdang branch..

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New readers overseas may not now that Muhammadiyah is one of the largest mass-membership Muslim outfits in the Indonesian archipelago. And it is always depicted in the media as ‘moderate.’
Not on our blog it won’t be, not after this.
Not unless they expel Ibnu Hajar.
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- If they don’t dissociate themselves from his sort of intolerant fanaticism, then they are simply exacerbating the ‘Islamophobia’ which his conduct and those of that mosque mob in Tanjung Balai incite.
I will let you read the linked article for yourselves.
You can marvel at how the bureaucrats in Deli seek to rationalise their oppressive conduct by means of disseminating “appeals” to all the managements of BPK eateries or eateries selling other non-halal foods to replace their current menus with halal ones.
This of course is not sectarian!
All perfectly pluralist!
To the extent that one pathetic puke in the local government is quoted viz. –“Thank God, almost 50 percent of them have replaced their menus with halal foods.” http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2016/07/29/traditional-karo-eateries-targeted-muslim-groups.html
What’s so shocking is the authority is so overtly in bed with bigotry.
I had heard that President Jokowi’s government was going through local bye-laws to weed out sectarian shariah stuff and any similar drivel.
Surely central government intervention is urgently required in Deli.
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Uncle Oz 10:33 on May 10, 2020 Permalink |
If they reoffend, shoot them.
Quicker and cheaper than puttingthem back inside!
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Santi 11:12 on May 10, 2020 Permalink |
Yes, here is the other report., last month.
Tanjung Priok in Jakarta, one bad robber shot dead, good work by police.
https://nasional.nusantaratv.com/keamanan/eks-napi-asimilasi-yang-rampok-dan-bacok-wanita-di-tanjung-priok-ditembak-mati
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Tiwi M 14:15 on May 10, 2020 Permalink |
Lock them up!
Quickly please, before any more honest people are hurt or raped.
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Kiti Karunia 16:29 on May 10, 2020 Permalink |
Not good for us if we are attacked on our streets by criminals who are supposed to be in prison.
No soccer now so use soccer stadiums to keep them in.
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Rawel 18:51 on May 11, 2020 Permalink |
All over our country this virus amnesty is a big problem.
https://solo.tribunnews.com/2020/04/16/baru-dibebaskan-karena-corona-napi-ini-justru-balas-dendam-dan-bacok-warga-nguter-sukoharjo
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