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Police are questioning the teacher, who is of course being considered the cause of all this.
Proportionate Response Alert: "Indonesia: Village To Be Rebuilt Following Islamic Rampage," from Compass Direct, December 17:
AMBON, Indonesia, December 17 (Compass Direct News) – Government officials in Central Maluku, Indonesia, yesterday promised to reconstruct before Christmas two church buildings and a number of houses set ablaze last week during sectarian rioting in Letwaru village, Masohi district.The promises came after hundreds of activists from a local youth organization protested in the streets of nearby Ambon on Monday (Dec. 15), holding these officials responsible for failing to maintain law and order, local media reported.
Also on Monday, police formally questioned a Christian elementary schoolteacher accused of making an anti-Islamic comment. Welhelmina Holle has been accused of insulting Islam while tutoring one of her students; following the Nov. 23 distribution of a flyer expressing the allegation against the schoolteacher, around 500 protestors gathered outside the education agency office and police headquarters on Dec. 9, and the protest quickly escalated into a full-scale riot.
Enraged Muslims destroyed 69 buildings, including two church buildings of a single congregation, 42 homes owned by Christians, four shops and a village hall. They also inadvertently struck 16 homes owned by Muslims.
Several people, including a police officer who attempted to stop the mob, were wounded during the rampage, according to Christian support organization Open Doors.
The time that lapsed between the Nov. 23 flyer and the Dec. 9 rioting shows that police were lax, said pastor Maureen Latuihamallo Ferdinandus, head of the Maluku Protestant Church (GPM) in Letwaru.
“The blasphemy issues had been spread since Nov. 23 – the time span until the day of the riot, Dec. 9, was long enough,” she said. “Yet police failed to anticipate the big protests and village rampage.”...
Or maybe they did anticipate them.
Read it all.
Posted by Robert at December 21, 2008 3:06 AM
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"Enraged Muslims destroyed 69 buildings, including two church buildings of a single congregation, 42 homes owned by Christians, four shops and a village hall".
Wow, some protest!
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at December 21, 2008 5:24 AM
"Enraged Muslims ..."
Just what we see more and more, every day...Must have something to do with Islam...
at December 21, 2008 5:51 AM
I wonder whether the OIC has a comment.........
On 2nd thought, the OIC would view the teacher's alleged comments as justification for their views on the criticism of Islam.
Posted by: tanstaafl at December 21, 2008 9:03 AM
Somebody must have tried to connect Islam with terrorism.
Posted by: sheik yer'mami at December 21, 2008 9:12 AM
Indonesia: Christian teacher accused of making "anti-Islamic comment," Muslims destroy 69 buildings, including 2 churches
Hmmm ... Christian teacher makes comment ... Muslims destroy 69 buildings
Remember the last battle between hezbolla and Israel in southern Lebanon?
Can you remember the whole disproportionate response line promoted by the press?
Hmmm ...
at December 21, 2008 4:13 PM
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