There is a dispute over permits for this particular church and recent additional construction on it, but note that the mob has called for a ban on any churches or services. This case is better understood in the context of the Pact of Umar which set specific precedents concerning the limits placed on dhimmi peoples, which included a prohibition on building new churches or fixing existing ones.
Islamic Tolerance Alert. "Indonesia: Muslim mob storms church, calls for ban," from Compass Direct News, August 19:
JAKARTA, August 19 (Compass Direct News) – On Sunday (August 17) a Muslim mob stormed a church service in Cipayung, East Jakarta, forcing Christians to flee and then erecting banners in the street declaring a ban on “churches and religious services.”
As about 20 church members were celebrating the nation’s Independence Day at the service, the angry assailants arrived at the Pentecostal Church of Indonesia in Pondok Rangon village, Cipayung, at 9:30 a.m. shouting “Allahu Akbar!” or “God is greater!” Some in the mob were neighbors, but the majority were not local residents, according to pastor Chris Ambessa.
Church members tried to close the gate leading into the church compound, but the mob forced its way in, storming into the welcoming room of the church and overturning furniture.
Ambessa managed to close a roller door protecting the room where services were held. But the attackers then chased church members out into the street, warning them not to return for future services.
The intruders then erected large banners in the street declaring a ban on “churches and religious services” in the village. Technically prior approval from district officials is required to erect such banners, but Public Order official Hadi Sumantri and plainclothes policemen present made no attempt to intervene or remove them. [...]
Two days prior to this incident, Ambessa sought permission from district officials to hold a special thanksgiving service on Independence Day. Officials gave verbal approval, despite contention over the existence of the church.
Demolition Order
Ambessa has been in the middle of a dispute over his house church. On July 3 the Cipayung civil engineering department had ordered Ambessa to dismantle the second floor of his home, and on July 13 it ordered him to cease religious activity for an indefinite period following neighborhood protests against the house church. Neighbors had demanded that Ambessa completely demolish the building.
And you thought your Homeowners' Association was bad. Imagine it armed with Sharia.
Ambessa, whose home has functioned as a legally recognized house church for the past 12 years, built the second floor extension to accommodate his growing congregation. Realizing the prohibitive cost and difficulty of obtaining a Religious Building Permit (IMB), and on grounds that the building was a residential home, Ambessa had proceeded with the extension without applying for the IMB.
Quick! Someone contact the UNHRC in Geneva!!!
Oh, wait, save your dime..you'll just an answering machine.
Queue some hideous soundtrack of a koran recital in the background...
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Any bets this is in our future?
for every church shut down the west should close a mosgue
Could you imagine the howling and whingeing if somebody called for shutting a mosque down?
Sheik,
Yup, the liberal PC/MC'ers would scream like stuck pigs. But you have to do "what you have to do!"
I would feel no sorrow in a tit-for-tat. The zombies have no problem with closing down churches and synagogues, so why should we?
(Sheik, you got a mention over at Islam-deutschland.info today. Did you see that?)
IslamNotForMe,
Completely agree - time for tit-for-tat. Big time!
Sheik, Agreed, bad blood & threats will follow with a couple of beheadings.
Guys, We need a Framework to work with countering the Muslim Dhimmi laws they imposed on us.
Something we start with collaborative effort shall be widely accepted, like open source for applications.
For eg. The Pact of Umar thats many things we consider second grade people, but by countering this laws 1 by 1 with proper justification, we could get the non muslim world to stand up to this monsters that want to enslave us.
Whos with me?
Paging all Australian readers.
Only a couple of months ago our Prime Minister, having just visited Indonesia and doubtless been hit with a heaping dose of heavy-duty taqiyya, said the following:
"There is nothing inevitable about the clash of civilisations,"
"But in fact, there are huge commonalities between us { i.e. Muslims and Christians - dda} which we need to build on.'
"Interfaith dialogue between our countries and more broadly across the globe is an area where our two countries will have further to say in the months ahead."
GAAAH!
Well, back then, I sent him an email and put a flea in his ear. But more fleas won't hurt.
All Australian jihadwatchers, both posters and lurkers: go to the Parliament House page. Go to the Prime Minister's homepage.
Click on the appropriate link to send him an email (*someone* reads them - I got a reply to one that I sent that way).
Send him the link for this article and tell him that THAT is how 'interfaith dialogue' is being conducted, RIGHT NOW, in 'moderate Muslim' Indonesia: not in Aceh, either, but in Java, in East Jakarta itself, right next to the capital city.
Send the same information to the leader of the Opposition and to your Federal MP.
Other possible articles exemplifying the traditional Muslim approach to 'interfaith dialogue', that have been recently posted on jihadwatch/ dhimmiwatch, that you could also bring to the attention of 1. the Prime Minister 2. the Leader of the Opposition 3. your federal MP whoever he or she is: the massive attack by armed Muslims on a theological college in Java; the violent attack by lots of armed Muslims, on a Coptic monastery; and the Muslim slavers' abduction and rape and forcible conversion of two little Catholic girls in Pakistan.
Send a brief note, with embedded links, by email.
Then follow up with a written, signed letter repeating your point, and appending a complete copy of the linked article/s.
and just where is the Christian outrage?...or even reporting on MSM TV...ala Keith Obliviousman or Chrissy Matthews?...
There is a very good association that has started Act for America. I think it is time to really group together and fight.
http://www.actforamerica.org.
I forgot the link :)
They must be "misunderstanders" of Islam. Misunderstood that "there is no compulsion in religion" thing.
Attention Indonesian Muslim monkeys:
FYI--A church is not a building. A church is the body of people who meet in the building. You may destroy building after building, and try to deny the members of the church their right to meet and partake of fellowship with one another, but it only takes two...
Wherever two or more people are gathered in the name of Christ, there He is, also.
You have failed. Repeat--you have failed.
You are nothing more than vandals and monkeys.
Thank you for your attention. You may now resume your impotent and laughable activities.
Looks like a great site, Silly.
Why should the police intervene? It's the ummah after all and the police is for people, not those they view as subhumans. Doesn't make it right, but that's the ugly truth.
Now if we made things unpleasant for Koranists in the West (maybe not to this extent though) rather than accomodating them every single time maybe we could do a little population exchange-send us your "subhumans" and we'll send you back your "brothers". We free ourselves of Koranic insanity and they get to prey upon one another back in the ummah as they see fit. Fair enough?
Didn't Ken Pollack and Barack Obama tell us that Indonesian Islam is moderate, thus proving that Islam isn't the problem?
No infidel building, but especially a Jewish or Christian building can be taller than the shortest muslim building, or mosque. Hight and the ability to 'look down on', is a supremacist idea. Islam is to be looked up to as supreme. No Christians or Jews can be allowed to 'look down' on muslims. Minarets, and now super tall muslim built buildings carry the same supremacist idea. They are also phallic symbols, but that's another story...
Duh_Swami - Phallic symbols! So no one can have a penis longer than Mohammed? PBOH and the "P" does not mean what you think it does...........