“The minister, Mahfud MD, said the government needed to ensure the security of 267 million Indonesian citizens by keeping the fighters out of the country.” While Western countries dither and litigate and welcome back returning jihadis, majority-Muslim Indonesia has its priorities straight and does what needs to be done. “Indonesia Will Not Take Back Nationals […]
Indonesia: Sharia police tell all-female flogging squad to “have no mercy for those who violate Allah’s law”
Aceh’s all-female Sharia flogging squad is the perfect metaphor for Western feminists’ refusal to denounce Sharia oppression of women. When the time comes, maybe the Women’s March or Code Pink could select female floggers for Sharia police in the U.S. “Indonesia’s Sharia police tout historic female flogging squad: ‘Her technique was nice,’” by Douglas Ernst, […]
Indonesia: “Islamic revival” sees hijrah movements flourishing on campus, thanks to the Saudis
Indonesia is descending into the pit of Islamization, and this is now evident on its campuses: Walking through Indonesian college campuses today, it’s easy to spot the young women clad head-to-toe in black amongst the sea of students wearing jeans and brightly colored batik. These women in black, along with many of their male classmates, […]
Indonesia: Christians banned from Christmas home celebrations in West Sumatra
“Governments on the Indonesian island of Sumatra have banned Christians from celebrating Christmas in private homes, according to a report Thursday from International Christian Concern.” This comes on the heels of the announcement that Indonesia was set to deploy 200,000 police to protect Christmas celebrations from Islamic jihad massacres. The country’s President Joko Widodo has […]
Indonesia to deploy 200,000 police to protect Christmas celebrations from Islamic jihad massacres
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has warned his nation’s “devout Muslims not to use violence to enforce a fatwa handed down by the nation’s Islamic council in 2016 against Christmas celebrations, urging tolerance for other faiths. Police also announced that authorities had green-lighted a plan to deploy nearly 200,000 officers nationwide to protect Christmas celebrations and […]
Indonesia: Man faints during whipping for Sharia-banned sex as crowd screams “harder, harder”
But remember: if you oppose the human rights violations that Sharia sanctions and enables, Noah Feldman (and many, many others) will call you a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe.” “Indonesian faints during whipping for Sharia-banned sex,” AFP, December 4, 2019: An Indonesian man who fainted as he was being whipped for pre-marital sex Thursday was revived to […]
When A Simple Complaint About Noise Leads to A Jail Term
An instructive event in “Islamically moderate” Indonesia remains timely as an illustration of Islamic “tolerance”: Meiliana, a Buddhist woman tired of enduring a loudspeaker near her home blasting out the Muslim Call to Prayer, had the temerity, back in 2016, to complain about the noise; she asked a Muslim neighbor if the volume might be […]
Indonesia: Bakery refuses to print non-Islamic messages on cake
Imagine the international outcry if this were a Christian-owned bakery that refused to print Islamic messages on a cake. But no one will mind this. “South Korean bakery chain with French name under fire after one store refuses to print non-Islamic messages on cake,” Coconuts Jakarta, November 22, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): […]
Indonesia: Muslims who built bomb that exploded at police headquarters ran Qur’an study group
That most learned of imams, Pope Francis, is no doubt on his way to Deli Serdang right now, in order to explain to the surviving members of this Qur’an study group that “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.” “Two alleged assemblers of bomb in Medan […]
Indonesia: Muslim cleric publicly flogged for adultery under islamic law he helped draw up
“An Indonesian man who worked for a clerical organization that advises a local government on Islamic law has been caned in public for adultery….Mukhlis bin Muhammad, a member of the Aceh Ulema Council (MPU), was caned 28 times.” And the irony is that he was publicly whipped for breaking the adultery law that he helped […]