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Indonesia: Christmas ornament found bearing word “Allah,” Muslims outraged, hotel shut down

Dec 25, 2016 5:17 am By Robert Spencer

“Ahmad Sukri, the leader of the Jambi chapter of the Islam Defenders Front’s (FPI), said the management could be sued for blasphemy due to the case.”

Notice that the Islam Defender’s Front has never shown similar outrage at the jihad terrorists who have supposedly twisted and hijacked the religion of peace.

“Jambi hotel temporarily shut down after word ‘Allah’ found on Christmas tree,” by Jon Afrizal, Jakarta Post, December 24, 2016 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

The Jambi municipal administration in Jambi province has decided to temporarily suspend the operation of a four-star hotel following allegations that the hotel’s management erected a Christmas tree with the word Allah [God] in Arabic script as one of its ornaments.

Jambi Mayor Syarif Fasha said the decision to close down Novita Hotel had been taken to cool down religious tensions related to the matter. The police have also started to investigate the allegations.

“The decision to temporarily close the hotel was taken after conducting a meeting with members of the Forkopimda [Regional Leader Communication Forum],” he said on Friday.

Ahmad Sukri, the leader of the Jambi chapter of the Islam Defenders Front’s (FPI), said the management could be sued for blasphemy due to the case….

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  1. Jan Aage Jeppesen says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 6:09 am

    Blasphemy indeed!

    To use the name of the Muslim deity on symbols used in Christianity to celebrate the birth of God is insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for the beliefs of more than one billion Christians.

    I am sure the tolerant Christians will forgive the blasphemer and Muslims who try to stir up religious conflict over this provocation.

    • Dr. Christoph Heger says

      Dec 25, 2016 at 11:55 am

      The word “Allah” is not restricted to the Muslim’s use to mean the Islamic deity. It is also used by Christians with Arabic mothertongue. As I already have said, the Arabic word “allah” is an Arabicization of the Syriac (= Christian-Aramaic) word “alaha”, which has always been used to mean the Christian God. It is not to be seen why the use of this word should be considered as a “blasphemy”.

      • Mac-101 says

        Dec 25, 2016 at 12:30 pm

        There has been numerous articles on JW about Malaysia banning Christians form using Allah for G-d in their Bible and literature and some being imprisoned for it also.

      • DFD says

        Dec 25, 2016 at 2:56 pm

        Dr. Christoph Heger,

        Do you really believ that means anything at all to someone with a Muslim brain? Permit me to correct myself: To a Muslim, having some sorty of mush between his ears…

      • Peter P. says

        Dec 25, 2016 at 10:26 pm

        First off, I do not classify Islam as a religion in any way shape or form. It is a racist ideology and death cult that cloaks itself in reigious garb. The only hope of the West, if it is to survive the Islamic onslaught is to declassify Islam as a religion and reclassify it as a racist, subversive cult that should be eradicated. “Islamophobia” is an oxymoron because a phobia is an irrational fear and there’s nothing irrational about fearing a lunatic shouting “Allauah Akbar”in the commission of an act of terrorism.

        It is the only way to strip this evil ideology of the religious protections we afford to it. It is no more a religion than is Nazism, Communism or Progressivism.

        It’s also time to stop using the redundant phrase, “Radical Islamic terrorism,” since Islam itself is radical, and its Holy Book, the Koran, is a manual for inciting hatred, inflicting terror, subjugating non-Muslims and murdering them wherever they’re found.

        Let’s face it: There is no such thing as “Moderate Islamic terrorism,”and it’s nonsense to talk about Muslims “being radicalized” when all it takes for a Muslim to become a terrorist is to read the Koran and believe everything it says.

        • Cleanseignorace says

          Dec 26, 2016 at 4:19 am

          ACCURATE SUMATION OF ISLAM AND MUSLIMS. THEY ARE ONE AND THE SAME, SINCE IT IS MUSLIMS WHO ARE IMPLEMENTING THE HATEFUL & DEALY IDEOLOGY OF THE LUNATIC PEDOPHILE MAD MO! IF THERE WERE NO MUSLIMS, THEN WE WOULD NOT HAVE ALL THESE VOILENCE AND YES, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A MODERATE MUSLIM. THERE JUST ONE ISLAM AND JUST MUDERIOUS MUSLIMS. THEY ARE BORN AND RAISED WITH HATE FILLED HEARTHS.

        • David G. says

          Dec 27, 2016 at 5:24 am

          Good writing Peter P. I support every word you say. You took some valuable time to write your opinion, and I thank you for it.

          David

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 26, 2016 at 10:58 pm

        Arab Christians use the word “Allah”, as do some Christians in Indonesia and Malaysia. It is not a reference to the baleful deity of Islam.

    • Tom says

      Dec 26, 2016 at 10:18 am

      I love that these folks get “outraged”. Wait until the tide turns on 21 Jan 2017 and see what lengths we will go to provoke your outrage.

    • Dave says

      Dec 26, 2016 at 11:02 am

      Is this a Christian terrorist act!
      Omg behead the tree then burn it!

  2. duh swami says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 6:37 am

    Here’s some more blasphemy…MERRY CHRISTMAS…

    Can I be sued for that?

    • Annak says

      Dec 25, 2016 at 7:13 am

      If so, they can sue me too..:)…..Merry Christmas back Duh…and everyone…one and all….have a happy time !

    • Anthony says

      Dec 25, 2016 at 11:22 pm

      I heard that it’s haram for muslim to wish Christian or we are called Nasrani here Merry Christmas for the reason that the muslim then admits/agree with Christian that Jesus is Son of God. This is considered unforgiven act of shirk as sanctioned by the koran. Thanks to Robert and David Wood that now I study koran as well and some hadits literature.
      I’m Indonesian and Catholic.

      • Dave says

        Dec 26, 2016 at 11:05 am

        All thinking people should read the holy book of Satan, the Hadith s of evil living, and the life of a minor demon.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 26, 2016 at 11:03 pm

        Keep safe, Anthony.

    • Cleanseignorace says

      Dec 26, 2016 at 4:22 am

      Hear! hear! Merry Chrismas dear! And many more to follow INFINATELY ! FOREVER.

  3. honkingoose says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 7:19 am

    Keep it up muslims, people are getting so sick of your bullshit. Essentially these arsewipes have declared every other religion an offence and a fraud but instead of teaching them they are in error most people don’t want to risk beheading so they let them get away with it…same reason feminists wont touch islam…..few people have the courage of their convictions, you can hardly blame them…BUT….BUT….don’t then turn around and pretend to debate whether or not the standover mafia of religions is “peaceful” or not! Would you debate whether the mafia is peaceful?

    • maghan says

      Dec 25, 2016 at 8:19 am

      The brain is the most important human organ. It is the source of human intelligence. But sadly enough, the Muslim Indonesians have not been so blessed.

      • Jerry says

        Dec 25, 2016 at 8:37 am

        Allah bestows only ignorance on his followers.

        • Dave says

          Dec 26, 2016 at 11:08 am

          It’s a rock, that’s been smashed, stuck back together with silver stuck in a large rectangle and they circle around the rock every year! WTF this is insane!
          F them all….

      • Anne Smith says

        Dec 26, 2016 at 7:53 am

        Consanguinity no doubt contributing to the dearth of reasoning matter.

  4. Jerry says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 8:25 am

    Can you believe it, closing a hotel over a Christmas ornament? But this is islam, a childish belief system with a murderous streak right down its ignorant middle. Is there any sensible person that doubts we too are headed toward the same madness for muslims? If we keep letting them in then this is what they’ll want. They’d rather serve their man-made demon in ignorance than grow spiritually wise and humanitarian by walking away from it. They never seem to surprise us by acting normal and tolerant, it’s always the same old idiocy and violence the world has come to expect from them. These muslims are permanently tied to their ancient stupidity, it’s easier to stay dumb than grow up to our democracy and human rights. Hopefully now that we have a new president coming that understands all this we can throttle down their numbers. Then we can get our nation back on track again. No more violating the rights of decent citizens with gratuitous spying and strip searches in public places. We’ve come too far as a nation and a people to let ourselves be controlled by the racist and violent ways of a primitive belief system that muslims seem to love. It’s all part of making America great again: ridding our lands of the violence and hate that muslims breed with their religious intolerance and unceasing terroristic acts. It’s war, and we’re going to win by taking intelligent action. And intelligent action means no more muslims. Not until they grow up.

    • Dave says

      Dec 26, 2016 at 11:11 am

      We are heading to their goal, worldwide bloodbath
      However they will be humiliated again
      Hopefully this shit will become illeagal worldwide with the punishment of death and they can all get there supreme wish
      Send them to paradise.

  5. ele says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 9:06 am

    What a great idea! I’ll be collecting a bunch of Christmas ornaments, write “Allah” on them and put them up on every public Christmas tree I see.

    • Dave says

      Dec 26, 2016 at 11:12 am

      Nice

  6. Mark says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 9:12 am

    Did it really say allah (may piss be upon him) or is it another case of Muslims being so keen to take offence that they find “Allah” in unlikely places:

    http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2005/09/finding-allah-in-unlikely-places

  7. Lee Hicks says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 9:41 am

    There is a fictional belief out there that Indonesia is an example of Islam living at peace with non-Muslims. This is far from true.

    Indonesia is just one more nation run according to the corrupt belief system of Islam. There is no peaceful version on Islam on the planet, no matter how much wishful thinking that some westerners might use.

    Islam at it’s core is an oppressive religious/political system, and from it’s beginning it began to promote the dark and corrupt qualities of Satan, under the guise of Allah: Corruption; Pedophelia; hatred for women, children, Christians, and Jews; Child Rape (Marriage); Use of Teen Boys for Sex Orgies; Bestiality (Sex with Animals); Murder; Rage; Rebellion; Lies and Deception; Terrorism and Violence; The Condoning of Any Vile Actions, as long as they were done to promote Jihad; etc.

    Contrary to the current sensitive snowflake thinking out there, these things ARE Islam, just as Jihad IS Islam. They are not “extremist” at all, and are in fact textbook actions in line with the Koran, Hadith, and Sira (The three authoritative texts of Islam).

    Islam is intolerent and oppressive, and will only be satisfied with the complete subjugation or eradication of every person who rejects Allah.

    Fortunately, I see Islam as the legs and feet of Daniel’s statue, in the Old Testament, as it fits the description to a T.

    The legs of iron symbolize the 500 years of rule by the brutal Islamic Ottoman Empire, while the feet of mixed iron and clay describe the weakened coming Islamic Caliphate, a revived Ottoman Empire.

    While Islam still has the iron of brutality, it is weakened from within with the clay of division, even between differing Muslim groups. This divisiveness, taken from the Arab mentality foretold in Genesis, is what will keep the coming Islamic Antichrist from being the world dictator that many expect. The Mahdi of Islam will reform the Ottoman Caliphate, and after great upheavals and tribulation worldwide, will come to a crashing defeat at the return of Christ.

    Islam may grow like a poisonous weed for now, but in the end, will be destroyed by the word of His mouth, with pestilence, and with plague. Allah is a poser, pretending to be a supreme deity, and will be brought to crushing defeat in the end.

    • eric says

      Dec 25, 2016 at 10:41 pm

      I think This very Roman Catholic pope would welcome Islam to join with the Christian Church to form a new one world religion . Where we all worship the same God together . The False Prophet has agreed to work with the Anti Christ to help set up a world government . Likely the funding for the world government will be the funding needed to regulate the warming climate . Thing have to happen very fast because this false Prophet has to get this all accomplished before the Anti Christ assigns in all a number before we can buy or sell anything . The Anti Christ does not believe in the God of his father or any other God , I think he hates God , and finally says he is God and we should worship him .. This will be a very bad time for both Christians , the false prophet and Muslims if they would reject the Anti Christ as God .

    • Dave says

      Dec 26, 2016 at 11:15 am

      Well said
      And Barry is applying for the Madi job

  8. Charles says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 10:36 am

    More rediculous Bull Shit! Brought to you by “the People of Satan”.
    It just keeps getting sillier and stupider! These imbeciles have no shame! I wish them all a speeding “projectile”. Courtesy of your friendly, neighborhood Marine Sniper!
    Honestly folks, he would be doing the poor A-Holes a big favor!

  9. Richard Paulsen says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 10:53 am

    ” God Jul ” ( Merry Christmas “, as we say in Sweden. Increasingly less and less used, due to muslim expansion. Still 80-90% being allowed.
    Islam expanding. Hijab for nurses and dentists for example. Soon teachers, police, TVreporters, I am afraid. In 20-30 years time or so.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 26, 2016 at 11:06 pm

      God Jul! to you, Richard.

  10. Dr. Christoph Heger says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 10:55 am

    Ahmad Sukri’s rage ist not only detestable, it is also silly. The Arabic word “allah” is an Arabicization of the Syriac (= Christian-Aramaic) word “alaha”, which has always been used to mean the Christian God.

  11. underbed cat says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 11:04 am

    Maybe someone hung the ornament on the Christmas tree as a sign of ‘lets all be friends diversity’, either unaware of the typical outrage offense appearing out of proportion but compliant to sharia or they want to seize assets of hotel…cha ching.

    Crazy as usual.

    • eric says

      Dec 25, 2016 at 10:54 pm

      I have sometimes used the word Allah for God hoping to be inclusive and kind to Muslims , But if they want to kill you . They can become outraged about anything . best leave them alone and let them kill each other .

    • Dave says

      Dec 26, 2016 at 11:19 am

      It was just another stupid Muslim.
      Well I guess this was one that was literate.

  12. marina says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 11:08 am

    Muslims are ridiculous silly and brain dead. I wish they would all go live in one hell hole and never ever bother the Christians.

    • Dave says

      Dec 26, 2016 at 11:21 am

      No chance they have a global mandate. Get ready to protect your family, community, and country! Death to Islam !

  13. Angemon says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 11:23 am

    How many Indonesians speak/read Arabic and go around snooping in Christmas trees?

  14. Mike Proulx says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 12:39 pm

    These people belong in an insane assylum along with the extremist leftist Liberals.

  15. JawsV says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 2:40 pm

    Islam has ruined Indonesia.

  16. Islam the religion of killers says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 4:28 pm

    Can these idiots get more pathetic ….

    • james.mich says

      Dec 25, 2016 at 4:57 pm

      Throwing a wobbly over Mohammed the teddy bear, perhaps ?

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudanese_teddy_bear_blasphemy_case

  17. Steve's nephew says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 4:53 pm

    There are some excellent comments here today. Here is my 2 cents:

    Christianity is about grace and forgiveness.

    Islam is about obedience and punishment.

    When is Bible states “love your neighbor as yourself,” the only conclusion is that Islam is not from God, but from Satan.

    • Dave says

      Dec 26, 2016 at 11:24 am

      ✔️

  18. Tangata says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 5:13 pm

    Muhammad adopts the word “Allah” used by the Nabateans to mean God/Lord , used by Arab Christians for 6 centuries before his Islamic ministry, and now His flowers claim exclusivity for the use of Allah… Preposterous but then that’s Islam and that’s Muslim isn’t it?

    • eric says

      Dec 25, 2016 at 10:10 pm

      They seem to look for anything to be outraged about .I think we should refuse to accept them until they can police themselves and behave . Where ever they are the majority they are mean outraged and dangerous .

    • Dave says

      Dec 26, 2016 at 11:24 am

      ✔️

  19. Veka Fitzfrancis says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 8:52 pm

    Any chance a Muslim was the one who put the ornament up to begin with?

    • john says

      Feb 9, 2017 at 9:40 am

      Yes chance.
      Indeed it was a moslem that did it.

      http://www.jambipos-online.com/2017/01/ayo-kenali-rz-tersangka-perumah-ornamen.html

      19 years old college student , as part time worker in hotel, that complains dont get his salary paid.
      Now after it turn out a moslem did it, suddenly its not noisy here in Indonesia..

  20. Matthieu Baudin says

    Dec 25, 2016 at 9:22 pm

    Things can move quickly in Indonesia. Don’t be surprised if one day the leadership of a prominent broad-based Fanatical Jihadi Organisation takes a step too far and ends up as silent as the late Communist Party of Indonesia.

    • eric says

      Dec 25, 2016 at 11:14 pm

      That’s where they belong quit or gone , Bomb Mecca and every mosque in Europe or they rewrite their book . Islam can be good and has done some good but their idea of domination has to go . We passed good laws against Islam in 1952 we need to interrupt our laws so that Islam has to change or leave .We have all had very sick liberal stupid governments for at least 40 to fifty years .If Swede’s can’t control their politicians .When they get enough Muslims they will control them

      • Anne Smith says

        Dec 26, 2016 at 7:57 am

        It’s amazing how well behaved the Japanese have been ever since they received a strong message at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

        It may soon be time to deliver a strong message to Mecca.

  21. will robn says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 4:02 am

    I met with a fellow Australian businessman in Jakarta a couple of years ago who’s name was Allen.
    I now realise why he insisted I call him Joe.
    You would think these defenders of islam would do something about the thousands of two room brothers that fill Jakarta’s alley’s.
    One room for the client to use and one room for the 10-14 year old girls to wait.
    They are no secret as local men line up outside the cheapest one’s in plain sight.
    There was a British man that got caught making a film that exposed the corrupt police and brothels.
    His local guides were attacked with knives and vanished and he was thrown in jail.
    I will try to find his name

  22. citycat says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 7:36 am

    Suppose all religions decided to get outraged at the same type of stuff as Muslims are complaining about.
    The ridiculousness of such complaining would become obvious.

  23. Florida Jim says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 9:53 am

    Typical mjuslim response anger,confusion, retribution and then beheading.

  24. John A. Marre says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 10:55 am

    Not only are they religious fanatics, but they are insane as well.
    ‘

  25. gravenimage says

    Dec 26, 2016 at 10:47 pm

    Indonesia: Christmas ornament found bearing word “Allah,” Muslims outraged, hotel shut down
    …………………..

    Never mind that many Indonesian Christians use the word “Allah” for God.

  26. jim says

    Dec 27, 2016 at 8:49 am

    I am an indonesian, my religion catholic. Believe me islam is not tollerant. Hardline muslim show it. Moderate just dont show it. They are the same.

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