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Indonesian election dominated by calls to be “more Islamic”

Apr 17, 2019 8:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Indonesia is the largest Muslim country in the world, and has traditionally been regarded as secular, but now there is a strong drive to “become more Islamic.” This movement is growing and includes the usual lies being spewed to the Indonesian public, about Islam being oppressed by “foreign powers” and that “Islam will protect everyone, it will not oppress anyone.” Really? Well, for starters it will stone gays, oppress women, and murder apostates, and more.

The Sharia trend is gaining traction among the younger population, as “experts say the young voters, who comprise a big chunk of the electorate, are in support of conservative Islam.”

Last month “at least two women were left unable to walk after a brutal public whipping in Indonesia as punishment for alleged intimate relations outside marriage, with a total of six couples subjected to the brutal ordeal, carried out in accordance with Sharia law.” And just days ago, a Muslim family was sentenced for targeting three churches for jihad suicide bombings. With the trend toward greater Islamization of Indonesia, expect to see more persecution of Christians and other minorities, and other human rights abuses and barbarism.

“Indonesia election puts Islam on the ballot,” DW, April 16, 2019:

More Muslims live in Indonesia than anywhere else in the world, and on April 17, the country is electing its next president. Since Indonesia embraced democracy in 1998, it has provided a strong example for the separation of religion and state.

However, today the political situation in Indonesia seems to have changed. “The role of religion should not be underestimated. It provides the means to operate in politics and it is used by all sides,” Susanne Schröter, director of German research institute Global Islam, told DW.

Indonesia’s current president, Joko Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi, is running against ex-general Prabowo Subianto, who has attacked his opponent for not being sufficiently Islamic. For example, Jokowi has been accused of not being able to recite the Koran in proper Arabic. Jokowi’s election team is also trying to improve their candidate’s religious reputation by claiming that he attended a Muslim school.

The impact of Islam on today’s Indonesian politics was made very clear during the 2017 Jakarta gubernatorial elections. Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, popularly known as “Ahok,” was the Indonesian capital’s first non-Muslim governor in over 50 years, as well as its first ethnic Chinese leader. During a campaign speech in late 2016, he was accused of making disparaging remarks about the Koran.

In response, radical Islamist organizations organized massive street protests in November and December 2016, during which hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets. In May 2017, Ahok was charged with blasphemy and sent to jail for 21 months….

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Filed Under: Featured, Indonesia, Islamic supremacism, Sharia Tagged With: Joko Widodo, Prabowo Subianto


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  1. Fritz says

    Apr 17, 2019 at 8:35 am

    Yeah, have more islam. Have more children. Don’t think, don’t act, just have more of it. And then more children. And more islam. You’re problems are getting bigger? Complain about being harassed by the other religions, blame the West and then… have MORE islam. Learn the lesson? Why learn anything if you can believe instead! And have more islam…

  2. Paul says

    Apr 17, 2019 at 9:04 am

    Bali is Hindu=polytheists. Flores is Christian=polytheists. Those islands I know, there may be more. An islamic majority will oppress these people for having a vibrant non-muslim culture and they will suffer.

    May I predict problems in the future ?

    Paul

    • Lucia says

      Apr 17, 2019 at 10:14 am

      Not only the Hindus and Christian will be oppressed by these people, also the moderate moslems.
      I have friends in Lombok, a moderate moslem family. They will loose their freedom because they live like we do.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 17, 2019 at 7:04 pm

      Muslims in Indonesia have already oppressed and brutalized Hindus, Christians, and Chinese there. It may well get worse.

  3. Kilauea says

    Apr 17, 2019 at 9:37 am

    God’s answer to a more islamic Indonesia – Krakatoa!

  4. elee says

    Apr 17, 2019 at 10:54 am

    Somebody explain to me again how this state of affairs is a huge improvement on colonial rule. I keep forgetting. A lot of kafir blood and treasure went into saving them from “Asia for Asians.” You’re welcome Muslims.

  5. Guy Jones says

    Apr 17, 2019 at 1:45 pm

    Islam’s intrinsic and irrepressible supremacism, totalitarianism and belligerence are as immutable and as predictable as the laws of gravity.

    Note that every single country that has been held up at one point or another, as an allegedly praiseworthy example of Muslims’ alleged ability to respect secular, democratic norms, has fallen into the black hole of Islam’s inertial totalitarianism, be it Turkey, Indonesia, et al.

  6. infidel says

    Apr 17, 2019 at 11:11 pm

    Surprise surprise.. Look what Brunei is doing too and the abusive letter it wrote to the EU council. One would hope that this abusive Jehaadi letter would open the EU governing council’s eyes on the reality of Islam… but that can never happen na?

  7. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Apr 18, 2019 at 4:33 am

    I bet their occasionally invaded and genocided Christian neighbors in East Timor can hardly wait.

  8. CRUSADER says

    Apr 18, 2019 at 7:07 am

    And to think, Daniel Pipes says that Islamism is on the DECLINE !!!!

  9. Horseman says

    Apr 18, 2019 at 11:55 am

    Fookin’ idiots….

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