If the perpetrators and victims had been reversed, which they would not be and should not be, this would be international news. As it is, you’ll only hear about it here.
“Muslims Attack Catholic Students with Knives in Indonesia,” Morning Star News, May 8, 2024:
SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – Two young women were slightly wounded when a mob of Muslims on Sunday (May 5) assaulted a group of 15 students engaged in a Catholic ritual prayer at a rented house in Banten Province, on the Indonesian island of Java, sources said.
Enraged at the Catholic group praying the rosary in a home rather than in a church building, the local neighborhood head incited area Muslims to break up the meeting and injure the two female students in the Pamulang area of Babakan village, Setu Sub-District, a suburb of Jakarta in Tangerang Selatan Regency, at about 7:30 p.m., according to published reports.
Some of the assailants were reportedly armed with a long machete, sickles, knives and blocks, and one of the young women suffered a slight wound near her nose while another sustained a minor wound in the stomach, in spite of efforts by local Muslims to protect them. A male Muslim student, Farhan Rizky Romadhon, also was reportedly attacked and suffered a cut on his head.
The conflict began when the neighborhood head, identified as Diding, peeped into the house where the students were praying, and then intruded in, reviling the students for the prayer ritual and ultimately dispersing them, according to Barak.id.
“Catholic students of Pamulang University were beaten and hacked in Viktor [in Pamulang, Babakan village], just because they PRAYED,” religious and human rights activist Permadi Arya, known in media as Abu Janda, posted on Instagram. “The incident was started by the head of the neighborhood (Ketua RT) named Diding who provoked residents.”
Diding harassed, intimidated and beat the Catholic students and his fellow Muslims who were trying to prevent further chaos and harm, Permadi Arya stated.
Citing statements of the unidentified two female students, Permadi Arya asserted that Diding said holding the rosary prayer in the area disrespected him as a local leader, and that such rituals should be held in a church building.
“I have told you not to hold worship here,” Diding said, according to the students. “If you want to hold the worship, do it in the church there, as we Muslims do worship in the mosque. How dare you disrespect me as the head of the neighborhood, [expletive deleted].”…
Cato the Elder says
This is a perfect example of “Coexist”. You can’t. Something as innocuous as the rosary, prayed in a private house. Muslims cannot live with other faiths. Muslims cannot live with civilization.
It’s us or them. There’s no Coexist. It’s been this way for 1400 years. Read your history.
abu taleb says
Muslims do worship at home too. And sometimes they do a religious gathering worshipping their false god and prophet at a house. So, it is all about Islam does not tolerate any other religion, they use various pretense to cover up what Islam is.
One of the favorit reason to attack a church in Indonesia is that the chuch has no permit. Some churches may have applied the permits for decades without any result. On the other hand, some years ago, the new governor in my province said that he would help to get permits for 100,000 Islam worship places, so he was revealing that there were so many mosques or other Islamic worshipping places without permits.
Muslims are full of hypocrisies.
gravenimage says
All true. abu taleb. But this is Islamic supremacism, not hypocrisy itself–Islam has never claimed to be rational or fair to unbelievers.
Scotsman48 says
Such an islamic leader or Village Head is seriously sick in the head of his worship for a Fascist Religious Cult that does not engage in free thought as that appears to be dangerous to those who follow that Cult.
He simply shows what low IQ he is and a sad excuse for a man.
Jagosputra06 says
Assalamualaaikum
Sebelumnya mohon maap…buat rekan Kita kepala lingkungan setempat..bahwa tugas anda sebagai kepala lingkungan itu kurang tepat dan jauh dari sop sebagai garda terdepan pemerintahan
Tidak seharusnya anda melarang kegiatan beribadah atau seremonial keagamaan yg dibakukan oleh pemerintah sepanjang masih bisa di akomodir kondisi dan situasi di lingkungan warga…..ada baiknya setiap ketua lingkungan menanggapi dan merespon sebelum dan sesudah segala bentuk kediatan di lingkungannya dengan penerapan trantip dan penyuluhan secara seimbang dan terarah…..
Salam dari sejawat ketua lingkungan tangkot
gravenimage says
I ran Jagosputra’s comment through Google Translate:
Assalamualaikum
First of all, I’m sorry…for our colleague, the head of the local environment…that your duties as head of the environment are not appropriate and far from what you need as the front guard of government.
You should not prohibit religious worship or ceremonial activities that are standardized by the government as long as they can still be accommodated for the conditions and situations in the community… it is better for every neighborhood leader to respond and respond before and after all forms of activity in his neighborhood by implementing balanced monitoring and counseling. and focused…..
Greetings from fellow environmental leaders of Tangkot
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A bit clunky, but broadly intelligible.
This is vague–does Jagosputra consider Muslims attacking Catholic students with knives to be Islamic “ceremonial activities”, and so protected behavior in Dar-al-Islam? Given that he has not a word of specific criticism of his coreligionists’ attacking Infidel students with deadly weapons anywhere in his long post, this certainly seems likely.
God, I hate Islam.
gravenimage says
Indonesia: Muslims attack Catholic students with knives
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Good to hear that at least a couple of decent and brave Muslims tried to prevent their savage coreligionists from hacking these peaceful Christians to death. A rarity.