“Further incidents of provocation were planned. Our members would find it difficult to control their anger in the face of such flagrant exploitation of our religious symbols.”
The “flagrant exploitation of our religious symbols” in question was the burning of a Hizb ut-Tahrir flag, because it contained the shahada, the Islamic profession of faith. You see, burning that is blasphemy, but doing violence to blasphemers is pleasing to Allah.
“Mass rally to promote moderate Islam in Indonesia canceled,” Associated Press, October 26, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Organizers of an Indonesian movement to promote a moderate brand of Islam have canceled a mass rally after its youth supporters burned the flag of an outlawed hard-line Muslim group, sparking allegations of blasphemy.
The rally in Yogyakarta, predicted to draw 100,000 people, was canceled to prevent violence, said Yahya Cholil Staquf, general secretary of Nahdlatul Ulama, Indonesia’s largest Muslim organization.
Video of members of Nahdlatul Ulama’s youth arm burning the flag of the outlawed group, Hizbut Tahrir, has stirred controversy in Indonesia because the flag is also emblazoned with the Islamic declaration of faith. Their uniforms indicated they’re part of the youth organization’s militia.
At least 1,000 people protested the flag burning in Jakarta and Bandung on Friday, demanding prosecution of those responsible.
Demonstrators in white Islamic robes snarled traffic outside the security ministry in Jakarta, waving flags with Arabic text professing belief in one God and chanting “God is great” and “No God except Allah.”
Staquf said Hizbut Tahrir “operatives” disrupted the youth wing’s celebrations and exploited religious symbols, which led to the flag burning incident….
Some 70,000 members of Ansor, Nahdlatul Ulama’s youth arm, had been on their way to Yogyakarta for the rally to coincide with the launch of an inter-faith movement that aims to counter extremism globally.
“Further incidents of provocation were planned. Our members would find it difficult to control their anger in the face of such flagrant exploitation of our religious symbols,” said Staquf….
Walter Sieruk says
To analyze this in one specific way to do this is to understand that the rally in Indonesia that had the goal of promoting “moderate Islam.” Which was canceled after jihad- minded Muslims rudely made their usual of threats violence with the added allegations that those supporters of “moderate Islam” guilty of blasphemy. Of all this some things should be clear, nevertheless those things are as follows.
First, those Muslim who made the terroristic threats are of course uncivilized savages who will not or cannot be reason with They will not respond to reason. They are terrible men.
Second, the reason that they are uncivilized savages who will not or cannot respond to reason and are terrible men is because they are committed devout Muslims who have embraced hard core non-watered down Quran based Islam . They are the Muslims who the Westerners refer to as “Radical Muslims.”
In contrast those Muslim who promoted that really for “Moderate Islam” are the Muslims who have embraced an Islam that is not-hard core and watered down Islam based partly on the Quran.. They are the Muslim who Westerners refer to as “Moderate Muslims.”
Therefore, the terrible men who made the charges of” Blasphemy “ against Islam, in all fairness, do indeed , seem to have made valid allegations . For Islam in essence, is dangerous violent and deadly .
Greg Murphy says
Isn’t it ironic, don’t you think?
gravenimage says
Indonesia: Rally to promote moderate Islam canceled after threats of violence from Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar”
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Well, that says it all.
And so much for Indonesia being “moderate”…
DP says
Indonesia is no longer moderate, it’s got so bad that our incumbent who was elected using the liberals as his political vehicle and portray himself as secular-moderate with more than 50% rate felt threatened enough that he take a hardline conservative ulama as his vice for next election. Mind you this is the ulama that is responsible for imprisoning jakarta christian-chinese governor for blasphemy.
FYI says
muslims just don’t get Irony.
islam..the most violent religious cult in history is….”the religion of peace”
The theologically wrong “perfect” koran…is riddled with errors.
muhammed,the “perfect” man…with his immoral,imperfect life of murder and mayhem.
allah:the violently antisemitic god of islam who thinks those Jewish prophets Moses and Jesus are….somehow muslims.
islam cannot deal with Irony.
nicholas tesdorf says
That mythical ‘moderate’ Islam just cannot cut through the wall of violence imposed by the true Islam.
Guy Forester says
The youth group apparently has a militia. Either they are not that peaceful, or they are in such danger of violence that they need to have a self defense force. So much for moderate and peaceful Indonesia.
Buzz says
A radical Muslim will chop off your head…a moderate Muslim will hand him the sword. Any one who follows Islam can not be trusted by a non-Muslim.
JAT 349 says
There is no such thing as moderate muslim.
All muslims read and live by the same book.
Islam…
A peaceful non-violent religion.?…NO…..
Never was is not now and never will be….
Where islam has touched the earth.
Death, destruction, chaos, fear and misery has followed.
Noel Anderson says
A religion of peace and tolerance, what a joke, more like death and destruction……islamics are ignorant uneducated fools, unable to think for themselves, unable to see the evil that is islam and the evil book they quote from…. Always question and verify… Use the brain that the god (spaceman?????) you worship gave you…….
Jan Favre says
As the Western spirituality has been largely destroyed by cultural Marxism, the West is weak and those moderate Muslim are endangered, because real Islam feels on the verge of final victory. A larger anti-Jihad front including India and China should be set up, to clean the world of this scurge.
Guy Forester says
Sorry Jan, but I would not trust China to help clean up anything at this time. Otherwise, yes, more governments need to listen to the victims of jihad and work to counter it. Unfortunately, it appears to me that political expediency, socialist inspired moral equivalence, and OPEC oil money cloud the thinking of too many so called leaders and prevents any real, meaningful actions.