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Indonesia: Islamic Defenders Front breaks up church meeting, threatens worshipers, attacks one

Apr 23, 2020 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Imagine if Christians anywhere broke up a gathering for Islamic prayer, which would never happen and should never happen. It would be front-page news for weeks. But no one will take any particular notice of this news from “moderate” Indonesia.

“Indonesia Islamists Breakup House Church Meeting,” by Stefan J. Bos, BosNewsLife, April 21, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

JAKARTA, INDONESIA (BosNewsLife)– Indonesia’s hardline Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) group broke up a house church meeting in the country’s West Java province, prompting an angry response from the governor.

Video footage obtained by BosNewsLife showed two men bursting into a home Sunday in Cikarang, 48 kilometers (30 miles) southwest of Jakarta, the nation’s capital.

Among the attackers was the area’s senior FPI party official identified as Ustad Muliana, several sources confirmed. The video purportedly showed him and another person threatening worshippers. One of them physically attacked Christians with a piece of wood. No serious injuries were reported.

But the raid interrupted the Sunday service of a house church linked to the largest Protestant denomination in Indonesia, known as Huria Kristen Batak Protestant (HKBP), or ‘Batak Christian Protestant Church.’

St.J.Sihombing and his wife Br. Sianturi, who were leading the meeting, said the violence began when 10 Christians gathered in their home for worship. Separately Christians told BosNewsLife that the couple organized the gathering according to “government recommendations in the new coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic.”…

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Filed Under: Featured, Indonesia, Muslim persecution of Christians Tagged With: Cikarang, Huria Kristen Batak Protestant (HKBP), Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), Ustad Muliana


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  1. CogitoErgoSum says

    Apr 23, 2020 at 2:14 pm

    The Islamic Defenders must defend their god from being attacked by the private prayers of a group of 10 unarmed Christians. What a great god indeed.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 23, 2020 at 8:52 pm

      Response to CES: The theory of jihad goes like this … Allah ‘is able’ to kill Jews and Christians and subjugate them all by himself, but he ‘tests’ the Muslims by sending them out as BOUNTY HUNTERS who exchange dead kafirs for 72 virgins and eternal erections.

      Allah encourages Muslims to accept his ‘BARGAIN’.

      Koran 9.111 – Allah has purchased of the believers their lives and their properties; for the price that theirs shall be the Paradise. They fight in Allah’s Cause, so they kill (others) and are killed. It is a promise in truth which is binding on Him in the Taurat (Torah) and the Injeel (Gospel) and the Quran. And who is truer to his covenant than Allah? Then rejoice in the bargain which you have concluded. That is the supreme success.

      Comment: ‘Allah’ never made such a mad ‘jihad bargain’ in the Old or New Testaments, but Mohammed made that part up.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 23, 2020 at 9:41 pm

      So true, CogitoErgoSum.

    • Michael A. Crognale says

      Apr 24, 2020 at 3:10 pm

      There is no god named allah. Never has been. Never will be.

  2. Peter Buckley says

    Apr 23, 2020 at 2:16 pm

    “Church leaders link the violence to anger among Islamic hardliners about the spread of Christianity in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation. At least hundreds of thousands of Muslims are becoming Christians in Indonesia annually, according to several church sources speaking to BosNewsLife.”

    https://www.bosnewslife.com/2020/03/16/ex-terrorist-leads-indonesias-christian-convert-movement/

    On every continent he collapse of Islam has begun and is now unstoppable.

    • keith says

      Apr 23, 2020 at 5:25 pm

      “on every continent the collapse of Islam has begun and is now unstoppable.
      We only have to find the fast forward button to make the world a little bit safer.

      • mortimer says

        Apr 23, 2020 at 9:04 pm

        Yes, keith, I believe you are right. Muslims are questioning the source texts of Islam privately (and some Muslims do so openly). What is happening is the unravelling of the Islamic obedience and TAQLID (blind submission or blind following to the mullahs).

        Former Muslims are speaking out about why they left. They are encouraging other Muslims to leave Islam. It will eventually reach a critical mass and an avalanche of apostasy will occur in a manner similar to the collapse of the Soviet System.

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 23, 2020 at 9:40 pm

          I hope so. But not only does it appear that Islam is growing in Indonesia, but so is its ferocity.

  3. SvenskaNationellaNyheter says

    Apr 23, 2020 at 3:04 pm

    Islamic Degence Front!? Is that an arabic version of The English Defence League? What a religion. You have to threaten, beat up people, break into christian churches as if “normal” God would justify thst kind of evil. I hope we,’ll one day show islam what can be the result of pushing christianity with violence. Arn’t they in for a surprise!?

  4. mortimer says

    Apr 23, 2020 at 8:44 pm

    Indonesia was ‘formerly’ moderate. No more.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 23, 2020 at 9:25 pm

      Sadly, Indonesia was never really “moderate”–despite how much this canard is pushed.

    • abu taleb says

      Apr 24, 2020 at 4:52 am

      That is true, Indonesia have never been moderate (I speak as an Indonesian).

      There are no moderate muslims, only those who are really ignorant and never practice Islamic teaching are “moderate” because they are not really muslims.

  5. Palladini says

    Apr 23, 2020 at 9:05 pm

    Let them try that shit in any church in the USA and they just might see afew curch attendees turn around with Pistols going off at a rapid rate. We will see who wins that one.

  6. gravenimage says

    Apr 23, 2020 at 9:14 pm

    Indonesia: Islamic Defenders Front breaks up church meeting, threatens worshipers, attacks one
    ……………………….

    “Defenders”–remember this the next time some Muslim says that violence in Islam is only permissible in “defense”–this is the kind of thing they are talking about–peaceful non-Muslim worship.

  7. PRCS says

    Apr 24, 2020 at 1:36 am

    One has the ‘right’ to practice any of the ‘authorized’ religions in Indonesia.

    Atheists, however, are subjected to officially sanctioned discrimination.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 24, 2020 at 10:31 pm

      All Infidels in Indonesia are oppressed and persecuted, and–as you note, PRCS–Atheists do not even have any safeguards on paper.

  8. Goofy says

    Apr 24, 2020 at 10:29 am

    Indonesian Muslims are leaving in droves not least driven by information available on the internet. So the Indonesian Muslims consider themselves to be under attack, and they know from their prophet Muhammad that attack is the best defense.

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