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Indonesia: Muslim who firebombed church was wearing t-shirt emblazoned “jihad”

Nov 14, 2016 5:19 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

The attacker was wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the word “jihad.”

Indonesia, which has long been showcased as a moderate Muslim nation, has experienced a spike in jihad activity, contradicting Hillary Clinton’s words:

As I travel around the world over the next years, I will be saying to people: if you want to know whether Islam, democracy, modernity and women’s rights can co-exist, go to Indonesia.

A young woman was also savagely beaten in October under strict Islamic law in the province of Aceh. The head of Aceh’s sharia police, Rahma Daniati, confidently justified the brutality.

Early this month, a crowd of tens of thousands of “hard-line Muslims” marched in protest at the centre of the Indonesian capital of Jakarta to “demand the arrest of its minority-Christian governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama for alleged blasphemy” after he spoke about a passage in the Quran “that could be interpreted as prohibiting Muslims from accepting non-Muslims as leaders.” No amount of apologizing mattered.

Just yesterday, with tensions already high over Purnama, Muslims firebombed a church, injuring four children.

Intan Olivia Marbun was severely burned after an attacker threw petrol bombs at a group of small children playing outside the church on Sunday.

These jihadists targeted young children. To them, no human life has any worth that supersedes their adherence to the Qur’an’s command, “kill them wherever you find them” (2:191, 4:89, 9:5).

In September, jihadists attacked 200 Christians during a memorial service at a Catholic mass in Indonesia; among them were children, and the jihadists forced a priest to flee the church “after he was threatened by the mob who harassed him as he read the Bible.” A suspected ISIS supporter also stabbed and wounded two Indonesian police officers in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta that same month.
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More on this story. “Indonesia: Two-year-old girl killed in church attack”, BBC News, November 14, 2016:

A two-year-old girl has died from injuries she sustained in an attack at a church on the island of Borneo in Indonesia.

Intan Olivia Marbun was severely burned after an attacker threw petrol bombs at a group of small children playing outside the church on Sunday.

Three other children were injured.

Police arrested a suspect after he was captured by local people following the attack.

The attacker has been identified as a militant linked to local extremists supporting the so-called Islamic State (IS) group.

“The man passed by the church and threw what we suspected was low-explosive cocktail bombs, causing light injuries to four children who were playing there,” local police spokesman Fajar Setiawan told the AFP news agency.

Police say the attacker was wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the word “jihad”, the agency adds.

“Marbun suffered extensive burn injuries and respiratory problems and doctors could not save her,” Mr Setiawan said.

The other children suffered “less serious injuries and were still being treated in hospital” but would likely be discharged soon, according to Reuters, which quoted a hospital spokesman…..

 

 

 

 

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  1. nicu says

    Nov 14, 2016 at 5:47 pm

    I have a friend in Indonesia she told me that the church in her village was burnt down , too 🙁

    • Shmooviyet says

      Nov 14, 2016 at 6:36 pm

      SO infuriating.

      Meanwhile the tolerance crowd at home gets ideas.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 14, 2016 at 7:58 pm

      So sorry to hear this, Nicu–but hardly surprised.

  2. Wellington says

    Nov 14, 2016 at 6:35 pm

    The “inner spiritual struggle” form of jihad was meant here no doubt. I mean who could be incredulous about this other than that nasty group out there who can properly and so accurately be called Islamophobes?

  3. gravenimage says

    Nov 14, 2016 at 7:59 pm

    Indonesia: Muslim who firebombed church was wearing t-shirt emblazoned “jihad”
    ………………

    Who ever would have guessed? sarc/off

  4. Itinerant says

    Nov 14, 2016 at 9:41 pm

    http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2015/03/02/west-misses-point-and-lesson-of-buddhist-anti-muslim-sentiment/

    It’s worth considering the words of Fr. Daniel Byantoro, a Muslim convert to Orthodox Christianity, regarding the Muslim conquest of Indonesia, as reported by Raymond Ibrahim;

    “For thousands of years my country (Indonesia) was a Hindu Buddhist kingdom. The last Hindu king was kind enough to give a tax exempt property for the first Muslim missionary to live and to preach his religion. Slowly the followers of the new religion were growing, and after they became so strong the kingdom was attacked, those who refused to become Muslims had to flee for their life to the neighboring island of Bali or to a high mountain of Tengger, where they have been able to keep their religion until now. Slowly from the Hindu Buddhist Kingdom, Indonesia became the largest Islamic country in the world. If there is any lesson to be learnt by Americans at all, the history of my country is worth pondering upon. We are not hate mongering, bigoted people; rather, we are freedom loving, democracy loving and human loving people. We just don’t want this freedom and democracy to be taken away from us by our ignorance and misguided “political correctness”, and the pretension of tolerance.”

  5. Angemon says

    Nov 15, 2016 at 9:22 am

    The attacker has been identified as a militant linked to local extremists supporting the so-called Islamic State (IS) group.

    “So-called”? As if they aren’t justifying their cations with islamic orthodoxy? Pull my other leg…

  6. Cretius says

    Nov 15, 2016 at 6:25 pm

    Indonesia. Why now are there attacks on non-Muslims? Answer. Saudi Arabia has funded Wahhabi clerics, moving into Indonesia without invite, spreading their intolerant, fundamentalist form of Islam. It is a poison in any society and especially in a democracy. Wahhabi clerics must be rooted out and expelled from ALL western democracies. Wahhabism must be treated as a cancer.

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