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Indonesia: Tens of thousands of Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” demand arrest of Christian governor for blasphemy

Nov 5, 2016 1:11 pm By Robert Spencer

When have we ever seen Muslims in these numbers protesting against the jihad terrorism that has supposedly “hijacked” their religion?

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An update on this story. “Muslim protesters in Jakarta demand arrest of Christian governor for alleged blasphemy,” by Niniek Karmini, Associated Press, November 4, 2016

JAKARTA, INDONESIA — Tens of thousands of hard-line Muslims marched Friday on the centre of the Indonesian capital to demand the arrest of its minority-Christian governor for alleged blasphemy.

Fearing violence, police put on a show of force supported by soldiers and public order officers, while embassies closed, some shops shuttered and Jakarta’s normally traffic-clogged streets were nearly empty of cars.

The predominantly male demonstrators, most wearing white shirts and skull caps, massed at the Istiqlal Mosque for the protest following weekly Friday prayers and marched on the nearby presidential palace. Large protests also took place in other cities including Medan on Sumatra, Makassar in Sulawesi and Malang in East Java.

Associated Press reporters witnessed members of an Islamic student group throwing plastic water bottles and other objects at riot police, but generally the massive demonstration appeared to have gone off without major incident.

The accusation of blasphemy against Jakarta Gov. Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama, an ethnic Chinese and minority Christian who is an ally of the country’s president, has galvanized his political opponents in the Muslim-majority nation of 250 million, and given a notorious group of hard-liners a national stage.

The Islamic Defenders Front, a vigilante group that wants to impose Shariah law, is demanding Ahok’s arrest after a video circulated online in which he joked to an audience about a passage in the Qur’an that could be interpreted as prohibiting Muslims from accepting non-Muslims as leaders. The governor has apologized for the comment and met with police.

“We are here because we want to defend the verses of God that have been abused by Ahok,” said Nasrullah Achmad, who came from Bekasi, a Jakarta satellite city, with dozens of others from his Islamic study group. They raised clenched fists and shouted “God is Great.”

“Only one thing can stop us: Ahok’s arrest,” said Achmad.

Some protesters snapped selfies of themselves wearing headbands emblazoned with “Arrest Ahok” and others cheered as speakers denounced him with hate-filled language. Many held aloft flags and banners with slogans such as “Ahok is an enemy of Islam.”

Blasphemy is a criminal offence in Indonesia and prosecutions have increased in the past decade though most people practice a moderate form of Islam. Amnesty International documented 106 convictions between 2004 and 2014 with some imprisoned for up to five years….

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and other national figures had called for a peaceful demonstration amid fears Islamic State group supporters might try to cause chaos.

The simmering political climate has provided an opening for the Islamic Defenders Front to burnish its credentials as protector of Indonesia’s majority faith at the expense of mainstream Muslim groups.

“Upholding the law is an obligation,” the Front’s leader, Rizieq Shihab, said as she stood on top of a car outside the palace. “If Ahok is not arrested, we will stay here,” he said….

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  1. Stan Lee says

    Nov 5, 2016 at 1:38 pm

    I suggest that because the Governor is a Christian, the Muslims cannot digest that fact. If he was a Muslim, not a whimper would come from that population about him.
    Muslims are indoctrinated from the time of practically their first breaths of life, Islam is as internal in them as any major organ in their anatomies.
    They need to stay in their own lands and make what they will of their lives, their attitudes concerning other religions becomes blood-letting anytime Islam abuts any other faith in this world.
    With them, it is Islam and nothing else, not only for them, but they’re driven by their scriptures to disrespect, hate, any other faith. Their idea of “One World” is that world being one gigantic Caliphate
    under shariah law.

    • Ernie says

      Nov 5, 2016 at 2:55 pm

      Dear Stan , you are right : the muslims can’t digest the fact the Governor is a Christian …..but that’s not all ; in Indonesia the ethnic Chinese have been forced to change their Chinese names into more ‘Indonesian’-sounding names , it’s the law . So , for example ; the Chinese Han family changed their name to ‘Handoyo ‘. Indonesia has a record of angry mobs pillaging Chinese businesses and private homes , setting them ablaze and of beating up , raping /killing ethnic Chinese . It is fair to say that there is quite a lot of ethnic based anti-Chinese sentiment among the Javanese population . And that is racism .

      • gravenimage says

        Nov 5, 2016 at 10:31 pm

        It’s also because most Chinese in Indonesia are not Muslim. More Jihad…

        • Ernie says

          Nov 6, 2016 at 3:46 am

          Certainly Gravenimage !

        • Mazo says

          Nov 6, 2016 at 2:27 pm

          Talking jack again?

          In Indonesia Malay Muslims helped Pagan Dayaks mass slaughter and behead thousands of Madurese Muslims who were settled on Dayak land in Kalimantan by Indonedia. Malay MuslIms viewed Madurese Muslims as evil gangsters and settlers on their land while they respected non-Muslim Dayaks.

          Acehnese MuslIms coordinated with East Timorese and West Papua resistance forces against Indonesia.

          Indonesian Christian General Theo Syafei led Indonesian troops in the occupation of East Timor. Syafei was responsible for massacres and war crimes against the East Timorese.

          Syafei insulted the Quran in public and the Indonesian government never punished him for it. Islamists were outraged at Syafei but the Indonesian government didn’t care.

        • gravenimage says

          Nov 7, 2016 at 12:01 am

          What claptrap from Mazo–he has tried this before, implying that since Muslims murder each other that they–somehow–present no threat to the “filthy Infidels”.

      • Mazo says

        Nov 6, 2016 at 2:56 pm

        The Dutch introduced anti Chinrse hatred to Indonesia and spread hatred between different ethnicities, telling Indonesian natives that Chonese were all wealthy and should be robbed.
        The first anti-Chinese massacre in Indonesia was incited by the Dutch. The 1740 Batavia massacre.

        After that massacre, Javanese Muslims and Chinese rose up in a massive revolt against Dutch colonial rule in the 1741 Java War. Madurese Muslims sided with the Dutch to end the rebellion after the rebels defeated Dutch garrisons in Java.

        The 1960’s mass slaughter by Indonesia was directed against fellow Indonesian Muslims suspected of belonging to the Indonesian Communist party. Most victims of that slaughter were Indonesian Muslims and not Chinese.

        http ://www.academia. edu/2635467/A_genocide_that_never_was_explaining_the_myth_of_anti-Chinese_massacres_in_Indonesia_1965-66

        Actual anti Chinese riots in the 1970’s-1990s like the May 1998 riots involved Javanese looting and stealing from Chinese shops but not massacring the Chinese shop owners. Chinese were viewed as wealthy store owners with infinite stocks of supplies. Javanese believed that if they killed all Chinese in their land, the shops would be gone and they couldn’t steal anymore, so they leave Chinese store owners alive so they could always steal more from the store later and extort money from the owners.

        https ://web.archive. org/web/20000920073842/http ://www.serve. com/inside/digest/dig86.htm

        Most of the dead in the May 1998 riots were the Javanese looters were got burned to death when a fire broke out.

        http ://www.cnn. com/WORLD/asiapcf/9805/16/indonesia.update/

        http ://www.asia-pacific-solidarity. net/southeastasia/indonesia/netnews/1998/and20_v2.htm

        In Kalimantan, Malay Muslims joined Dayak pagans to mass behead Madurese Muslims who were settled on their land by the Indonesian government. Indonesian Malays sometimes extort money from Chinese store owners but their actual head chopping victims are other Muslims of different ethnicity. These Indonesian Malays are not the same people as Malaysian Malays.

        The Indonesian army killed thousands of Acehnese Muslims in its war in Aceh.

        • gravenimage says

          Nov 7, 2016 at 12:04 am

          Doesn’t Mazo realize that what he thinks is apologia for Islam is just an indictment of how savage it is?

        • Baucent says

          Nov 7, 2016 at 3:03 am

          “The first anti-Chinese massacre in Indonesia was incited by the Dutch. The 1740 Batavia massacre.

          After that massacre, Javanese Muslims and Chinese rose up in a massive revolt against Dutch colonial rule in the 1741 Java War. ”

          Oh sure Mazzo, the year after the muslims massacred the Chinese, they join their Muslim persecutors to attack the Dutch. This sort of Wikipedia Cut and Paste distortion of history fools no one here. I really wonder why you bother pandering your jaundiced crap. Your credibility as any authority on anything is zero.

        • Mazo says

          Nov 7, 2016 at 1:42 pm

          The Dutch ordered and implemented the 1740 Batavia massacre you moron.

          Javanese Muslims decided to join the Chinese to revolt against the Dutch after they saw their bloodthirsty savagery. They slaughtered Dutch in revenge in Juwana and Rembang and executed Dutch officers like Velsen and Lutten on the spot for their war crimes.

        • Mazo says

          Nov 7, 2016 at 1:54 pm

          Cravenmirage forget to mention that the American CIA supported the mass slaughter in the 1960’s in Indonesia.

          Dayaks were traditionally head hunting animists and collected heads for a living.

      • Simone Fields says

        Nov 8, 2016 at 2:20 pm

        When I lived for a while in Jakarta 20years ago it didn’t take long to find out about how the Chinese (Christian) minority were regularly being subjected to violent persecution. They make up a tiny percentage of the Indonesian population and yet they work hard and run the most successful enterprises.
        In those days I was totally uninformed about Islam. Ignorance was bliss!

  2. Voytek Gagalka says

    Nov 5, 2016 at 2:26 pm

    When will come the time that “tens of thousands” of non-Muslims in any city in the West will demand expulsion of this cancer called Islam (sharia) from our world? Why only Mohammedans can protest and “demand” while kuffar never do?

  3. Angemon says

    Nov 5, 2016 at 2:34 pm

    Blasphemy is a criminal offence in Indonesia and prosecutions have increased in the past decade though most people practice a moderate form of Islam.

    “Moderate” islam has blasphemy laws. How is that different from “extreme” islam?

  4. Art says

    Nov 5, 2016 at 3:36 pm

    Sure glad my family left there back in the early 1950’s otherwise I may have been stuck there.

    • Ernie says

      Nov 6, 2016 at 6:22 am

      Dear Art , I understand . Same story here . Before leaving Indonesia in the early 1950’s my father ( and his whole family ) suffered a lot under the Japanese occupation ; after that they suffered during the “war of independence” . The Indonesian nationalists were divided : mainly communists and Islamists . My family were Christians .They left Indonesia to live in the Netherlands ( a country unknown to them ) and suffered again because of cultureshock , and prejudice present in a substantial part of the Dutch population in those days ….. I’ve seen the pain and suffering in my family , and growing up wasn’t easy ……. In the 1960’s migrant workers mainly from Morocco and Turkey came to the Netherlands . Before the arrival of these “guest-workers ” Islam was present in the Netherlands , but marginally . That changed . This happened under the rule of the Liberals ( in the Netherlands Liberals are right wing ! They want cheap labour .) and Christian parties , and later Socialists , and the Liberals ( Left and Right-wing ) . The Dutch population was fooled because the migrant workers were here to stay for about two years…….said the Liberal/Christian government . Well , we all know better now…. The Muslim population has been growing explosively since , and integration is nearly non-existent ( and that is a HUGE-PROBLEM , but not surprising , since islam forbids integration ) . This is going on for 50 years now . “Our” governments / rulers / masters ( we are NOT a real democracy ) , and the ( fascist ) European Union , tell us all the time we , non muslims , must be tolerant . Tolerance for the intolerants . We must accomodate Islam and its adherents ( without adherents islam is dead ), we non muslims must adapt to THEIR wishes . The Dutch want to be champions of tolerance . It is economical and cultural suicide . The mass influx of “refugees” in our Western world in recent years has created chaos beyond repair . I hate Islam , I hate “our” rulers/masters ; the opportunistic , cynical , selfish , immoral traitors/politicians , the collaborating propaganda machine we call the mass-media , the corrupt religious leaders etc. We are at WAR , with them , with ignorance and islam . We have not asked for this war . Most people here are still in the dark . Sometimes I feel like a voice in the wilderness . What a battle we have to fight !

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 7, 2016 at 12:12 am

      Glad you got out, Art and Ernie.

      And thanks for telling us so much of your family’s history, Ernie.

      • Ernie says

        Nov 7, 2016 at 1:52 am

        You’re most welcome gravenimage !

  5. gravenimage says

    Nov 5, 2016 at 10:17 pm

    Indonesia: Tens of thousands of Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” demand arrest of Christian governor for blasphemy
    ……………………………..

    And this is in “moderate” Indonesia…

    More:

    The Islamic Defenders Front, a vigilante group that wants to impose Shariah law, is demanding Ahok’s arrest after a video circulated online in which he joked to an audience about a passage in the Qur’an that could be interpreted as prohibiting Muslims from accepting non-Muslims as leaders. The governor has apologized for the comment and met with police.
    ……………………………..

    That is the whole problem, of course. Islam *doesn’t* allow ‘filthy Infidels’ to have positions of power of Muslims. It wasn’t just his joking over this Qur’anic verse that is “blasphemous”–it is his being a Christian and a governor in a Muslim-majority country.

    I just hope he survives and stays out of jail.

  6. No Fear says

    Nov 6, 2016 at 12:27 am

    Why should ANY NON MUSLIM (including the Jakarta Governor) have respect for a “prophet” who says non believers are the “vilest of animals” ? Quran 8:55

    The Quran is one long supremacist rant about how MUSLIMS are “the best of people ” and how NON MUSLIMS are evil/bad/vile/subhuman.

    I DETEST the QURAN and I DETEST MOHAMMED !

    Any muslim who wants me dead is simply a henchman of the biggest gangster leader of all time – Mohammed.

  7. Guest says

    Nov 6, 2016 at 12:44 am

    How did a Christian become a governor in Indonesia?

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 6, 2016 at 1:43 am

      Guest, he is governor of Jakarta. This is the most cosmopolitan city in Indonesia, and has a large Buddhist, Hindu, and Chinese (Buddhist, Christian and atheist) population.

      Even though Indonesia is majority-Muslim, there are pockets of Infidel population–most famously, Bali–which is majority-Hindu–and East Timor–which has since ceded because of oppression and genocide–which is majority-Christian.

    • Anthony says

      Nov 6, 2016 at 5:38 am

      He was the vice governor when Jokowi was the governor of Jakarta ( being capital of Indonesia, Jakarta has special function so lead by a governor, a governor usually leads/governs a province like state in the US ), when Jokowi was elected president, his vice governor automatically became the governor. He is from chinese minority that makes him a perfect target. So what can be worst than a Chinese Christian infidel.

    • Custos Custodum says

      Nov 7, 2016 at 1:35 am

      Muslim Indonesians have a very clear and realistic understanding of the kind of governance they would get from a fellow Muslim.

      So even many Muslims quietly prefer having an efficient and reasonably honest Chinese Christian rather than a fellow Muslim as mayor of Jakarta.

  8. Baucent says

    Nov 6, 2016 at 2:57 am

    The other issue that erks the muslims is that Christianity is growing in Indonesia. Muslims are converting to Christianity. The Chinese represent the most visible Christian group, (though not all are Christians, some are Buddhist or Taoist). So every so often there will be a flareup and Chinese owned shops or churches will be burnt and in the 1990’s Christians were slaughtered in the “Spice Islands” after claims Christians were trying to convert muslims. At that time muslim fanatics traveled from Jakarta and other cities to take part in the killing. An internal Jihad.

  9. melancholy observer says

    Nov 6, 2016 at 8:50 am

    The tragedy is that people simply don’t know about this sort of evil Mass Islamic immigration means assassinations, terrifying’demonstrations’, religious riot, stacking of political branches by anti-Israel and anti-western yahoos,. The average person can’t put two and two together. This is how scoundrels like Corbyn in England, Clinton in America, Shorten in Australia get away with their Islamification policies. People simply don’t know and can’t put two and two together. In the future I have no doubt there will be mass demonstrations and terror against freedom of speech and criticisms and interprational disagreements about phrases in the Koran.

  10. Dov Berrol says

    Nov 7, 2016 at 8:09 am

    Mob violence by Muslim pogroms is not a new thing. Here is a very good opinion piece from The Jerusalem Post: “Comment: Beware of the drip, drip of religious fascism in Asia”

    http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Terra-incognita-Beware-of-the-drip-drip-of-religious-fascism-in-Asia-471853

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