Indonesia: jihadist was planning Christmas attacks against churches

I have recently been corresponding with a befogged leftist who thinks current jihad activity is attributable entirely to American foreign policy. Well, Christian churches in Indonesia, those bastions of American power and arrogance, were on the target list for this Christmas in Indonesia.

"Azahari was preparing Christmas terrorist attacks against churches," from AsiaNews, with thanks to Michael Rose:

Jakarta (AsiaNews) –Azahari bin Husin and his terrorist group were preparing a series of bomb attacks against churches in Malang to coincide with the Christmas festivities, this according to police sources. Police are still trying to determine why Azahari had rented a villa in Batu, a mountainous tourist resort near the city of Malang (East Java), but intelligence sources believe that his “target was a very big church in Malang”.

Yesterday Azahari allegedly blew himself up to avoid capture by a special police anti-terrorist squad after a two-hour operation in Batu. And today police sources confirmed that the human remains that were tested were those of the wanted terrorist.

Malang is a tourist resort area 80 km south of Surabaya, capital of East Java province. It is home to many Catholic religious orders like the Verbites and Carmelites as well as a major seminary that received hundreds of seminarians from different orders to study philosophy and theology.

The St Joseph College Senior High School is another well known local Catholic institution and is run by Carmelite sisters. The Bishop’s residence is close to the school.

In addition to Catholic institutions, there are several Protestant ones.

Investigators believe that Azahari was planning a series of bomb attacks on Christmas night and during the festive season. Something similar had already occurred on Christmas day 2000 when bombs exploded in five churches in Jakarta and other Indonesian cities.

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I guess American funding of Mosques is not enough, we are still infidel's and should be slaughtered. Am I to beleive that all funder's of Mosques are infidel's? Push Islam, fund it, and get a fascial slap? You can progress your, ie, your, religion and incite violence, but any one correlating with this nonsense is a target? This basically calls for a war on yourself. Oxy Moron must I say? Fund our movement, yet you are the evil. I beleive that Muslim's are bitting the hand that feeds. Free speach, only in culture other than Islam. Loophole? Use our filth of free speach to fund your Mosques and proliferate your religion, only to bomb us? You and Muhammad need to talk, cause this is retorical crap. I am starting to think that the U.S. of A. needs to shut down all Mosgues. We don't like being bitten. Fund you, we will, no more.

This bin husin is indeed conversing with mahomet, in hell. No virgins, no feasts, just fire and brimstone.

American tax dollars funding Mosques? You fight us tooth and nail, use our own laws against us, yet relish in the fact that you can do so? How long do you think it takes before we pull your federal funding of the hatred that permiates what you call religious freedom. I can no longer seek Christmas Carolls nor find a tree, but you can build federaly funded Mosques? Jesus and his Mir are no more, but calls to prayer are? You realy have to be kidding me cause this will not stand. CAIR, and ACLU, take heed cause the U.S. of A. is gonna wake up and take our Christmas back, along with our pledge of allegiance! I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God indivisible and to bring liberty and justice to all of us!

"befogged leftist": ha ha! You couldn't have found a better adjective. Anything stroger--e.g., moronic--would have ruined it.

Guys and dolls, I don't have the links--I apologize--but just do a google on "72 virgins & suicide bombers" and you'll enter comedic Paradise. I mean, tragicomic. Look especially for evidence of protection of the genitals on suicide bombers.

Fox news reports someone threw two homemade bombs at a mosque in southern France.