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Indonesia: Muslim with ISIS flag stabs priest, tries to blow up church during mass, police search for motive

Aug 28, 2016 12:37 pm By Robert Spencer

This is way beyond ridiculous. He had a hand-drawn picture of an ISIS flag. He attacked a priest and tried to explode a bomb in a crowded church. His motive couldn’t possibly be clearer. But the denial and willful ignorance of authorities is all-pervasive.

Indonesia church jihadi

“Terror in Indonesia: Axe-wielding ISIS jihadi, 18, stabs Catholic priest, 60, before trying to blow up hundreds of worshippers during Sunday Mass,” by James Dunn, Mailonline, August 28, 2016:

An ISIS suicide bomber today attacked a Catholic priest with an axe as he tried to blow up hundreds of worshippers at a church during Sunday Mass.

Priest Albert Pandiangan, 60, was holding the holy ceremony at the altar when the 18-year-old fanatic rushed towards him with a backpack bomb and tried to blow himself up.

But the bomb burned without setting off the explosives, so the jihadi pulled an axe from his bag and slashed the priest’s arm at St Yoseph Church in Medan, the capital of North Sumatra in Indonesia.

The congregation then stepped in and managed to wrestle the axe from his grasp, detaining him until the police arrived.

As officers marched the suspect to the car, pictures show his white trousers soaked in blood. Police found his ID card and a hand-drawn picture of the ISIS flag.

The young fanatic also told police that he was not working alone.

He was later pictured at the police station with an officer holding his bloody head off the ground, where he was lying handcuffed.

‘Somebody tried to kill the priest by pretending to attend the church service and at that time tried to explode something, like a firecracker, but the firecracker didn’t explode, it only fumed,’ chief detective Nur Fallah said.

The priest suffered slight injuries and has been taken to hospital near where it happened.

A picture of the attacker’s ID card circulating online said he was Muslim….

Police are still investigating the man’s motive.

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Filed Under: Featured, Indonesia, Muslim persecution of Christians Tagged With: Albert Pandiangan, Medan, St. Yoseph Church


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  1. linnte says

    Aug 28, 2016 at 12:42 pm

    Sharing this story. Changing the data to fix the problem is despicable.

  2. Michael Laudahn says

    Aug 28, 2016 at 12:44 pm

    He’ll be free to roam again in a few days, once the media’s attention has waned. That’s moderate Indonesia for you.

    • Shane says

      Aug 28, 2016 at 4:31 pm

      There is no moderate Islam and there is no moderate Islamic country.

  3. Angemon says

    Aug 28, 2016 at 12:48 pm

    Police are still investigating the man’s motive.

    This is not frightened France, this is islamic Indonesia. How many in the general populace – if not in the police force itself – simply chuckle and wave their heads at this nonsense?

    • Salome says

      Aug 28, 2016 at 4:43 pm

      Not far from Australia. Motives are elusive here as well.

  4. CogitoErgoSum says

    Aug 28, 2016 at 12:56 pm

    Indonesia is often cited as an example of how tolerant a mostly Islamic country can be. But you will notice that the story mentions an identity card held the by the attacker. Indonesians are required to carry an identification card which also provides information concerning the holder’s religion. Only six religions are officially recognized by Indonesia: Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Confucianism (note that Judaism is not recognized and neither are atheism and agnosticism). Blasphemy is illegal. Over 87% of Indonesians are Muslim. Catholics make up less than 2% of the population.

    • Pere LaChaise says

      Aug 29, 2016 at 1:40 pm

      There is a small Orthodox Church in Indonesia, actually two of them administered respectively by the Ecumenical Patriarchate and by the Moscow Patriarchate through the Church Abroad. As far as I have been told they are both officially recognized/sanctioned at the highest governmental levels. So this statement is inaccurate.

  5. John Marst says

    Aug 28, 2016 at 1:06 pm

    It’s so difficult to admit the simple truth; police officials break into a Monty Python-like skit whenever the religion-that-shalt-not-be-named sheds the blood of innocents. And it’s no longer ignorance because everyone knows. Now, it’s just a pretense that conforms to an obviously false political narrative.

    As the Buddhist monk says, “You can be filled with love and kindness, but you can’t sleep next to a mad dog.”

    Some people are bent not only on sleeping with the mad dog but resting their heads in its mouth.

    • Maryanne says

      Aug 29, 2016 at 10:56 am

      I totally agree

    • Pere LaChaise says

      Aug 29, 2016 at 1:42 pm

      This Buddhist saying is very wise. I spoke with a Thai Buddhist who identified that mad dog as specifically Moslem when he stated without my solicitation that religions are generally mutually amenable – with the exception of Islam.

  6. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 28, 2016 at 1:22 pm

    The violent behavior of that ISIS jihadist /Muslim ,in Indonesia, with his murderous intentions reveals much.Those jihadist Muslims who compose the violent and deadly jihad entity ISIS detest all who say that they are Christians. The jihadists who make up ISIS don’t care if that person who professes to be a Christian is a Catholic or Protestant. The jihadists of ISIS hate them all. One of the reasons why the Muslims who compose ISIS are so much against Christians is that some Christians teach the Bible with its many doctrines to others. The Bible that is so very damaging to Islamic doctrine that the Muslim clerics sand strongly against the people obtaining Bible’s. For example, Islamic [Koranic] doctrine denies the Jesus is God. In other words Islam denies the Deity of Christ. Nevertheless, the Bible teaches “For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form.” Colossians 2:9. [N.I.V.] Moreover, the Jesus is God may further be seen in the Bible. As in, for example, John 1:1-3. Colossians 1:15-17. Romans 9:5. Second Peter 1:1. Titus 2:13. First John 5:20. In addition, for a person to further find out that Jesus is God all a she or he has to do in to compare the Old Testament with New Testament to see that Jesus is God. AS by comparing Isaiah 45:22, 23 with Philippians 2:5-11. Likewise by comparing Psalm 89:8,9 with Matthew 8:23-27. Will also confirm that Jesus is God. Also by comparing Psalm 62. 5-7.with First Corinthians 10:4. Just by comparing the New Testament books together will like show that Jesus is God .For example, comparing John 5:22. with Romans 14:12 shows the Deity of Christ. The list can go on but this should be enough for anyone who is willing to see, and not as those who Bible calls those who are willingly ignorant, II Peter 3:5., that Jesus is God. The imams and mullahs as well as the other apologists for Islam will try to “explain “ all this away by making the claim that the Bible had been corrupted by Christians, through time, and that’s why the Bible reads as it does. This claim they make very much underestimate the Power of God to preserve His Word and keep it safe and intact and away from the corruption of men. In conclusion, The Muslim clerics strongly dislike the Bile because the Bible greatly exposes the terrible doctrinal errors that Islam with the Koran as Islam’s foundation have concerning the nature of Jesus. Likewise the Bible exposes Islam as a false religion, Isaiah 8:20. Proverbs 14:12. All Muslims be they jihadist /ISIS Muslim or non-violent peaceful Muslims are invited to turn away for the false religion of Islam and come to and receive the real Jesus of the Bible. Who is the True Light to the world, John 8:12. and the only way to God the Father , John 14:6.

    • vrae says

      Aug 28, 2016 at 5:52 pm

      Thank you for sharing this life-giving message.

      I have understood why Muslims dislike the Bible for a long time now. Your posts are good.

    • Pere LaChaise says

      Aug 29, 2016 at 1:48 pm

      Good points. The ridiculous question, “do Christians and Moslems worship the same God?” must be reframed this way – that Islamic misunderstanding of God forbids seeing God in Christ and the Holy Spirit. The Trinitarian concept of God is intrinsic to Christianity and there is no way to harmonize Moslem rejection of Community in Godhead with Catholic, Orthodox Christian belief.

  7. JIMJFOX says

    Aug 28, 2016 at 1:30 pm

    Isaiah 8:20 King James Version (KJV)

    20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

    Proverbs 14:12New King James Version (NKJV)

    12 There is a way that seems right to a man,
    But its end is the way of death.

    WHERE is .
    Islam mentioned, Walter? YOU are a complete twat. Sorry, I meant brain-dead christian

    • JIMJFOX says

      Aug 28, 2016 at 1:31 pm

      Bible exposes Islam as a false religion, Isaiah 8:20. Proverbs 14:12

    • Walter Sieruk says

      Aug 28, 2016 at 4:35 pm

      To Jimjfox, my friend, such Bible verses as Isaiah 8:20 and the others Bible verses given, of course, don’t mention Islam by name. First, if the Bible did use the word”Islam” then the false prophet would have just picked another name to call the false religion his started. Second, Isaiah 8:20 along with those other verses from the Bible are deliberately generic enough to apply and to take care of ,as to expose, all false religion systems with the false doctrines that those false religion hold to and teach. Be those false religions pseudo christian cult which stared in America as,for example, Mormonism and the Watchtower .or the ancient religions that stated overseas as ,for example as Hinduism and Buddhism and that false religion that started in medieval times which is Islam.

  8. Alvin Woods says

    Aug 28, 2016 at 1:45 pm

    Brevik connection?

  9. vrae says

    Aug 28, 2016 at 5:56 pm

    Honestly, this search for motive is because they don’t believe he could because they don’t necessarily agree with the interpretation. They just want to say “religion of peace” (the idea being that some of the ones probably just believe in leave churches alone for now) and hope this act of violence can be ascribed to something that doesn’t have to do with their belief system.

    No, it isn’t valid.

  10. alteisenindo says

    Aug 29, 2016 at 12:40 am

    Guys forget about Indonesia, no matter how persecuted non-muslims here, Indonesia will always be the international model of islamic tolerance. Why? because the media say so. In practice, muslims are always prioritized, and the dhimmis can only hope & beg. Although a lot of muslims in Indonesia are “ID card only muslims” or moderate muslims as the media call them, they will still defend islam to death no matter how wrong it is.

  11. Benedict says

    Aug 29, 2016 at 3:10 am

    The Muslims can do what they want, kill as many Christians as possible, destroy as many Churches as possible, but Christianity will triumph in the end. Islam is evil and evil will not triumph. There is a just God and it is not Allah

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