Clearly Indonesian authorities are expecting jihad terror attacks at churches this Christmas. “Indonesian police foil ‘jihad’ attacks, arrest six suspects: Reports,” Reuters, December 20, 2015: Counter-terrorism police have arrested six people suspected of planning attacks in Indonesia, seizing bomb-making materials and ‘jihad manuals’ from the men they said included Islamic State members and supporters, the […]
The Indonesian Jihad on Christian Churches
Gatestone Institute In compliance with Islamic demands, Indonesian authorities in the Aceh region have started to tear down Christian churches. Their move comes after Muslim mobs rampaged and attacked churches. At least one person was killed; thousands of Christians were displaced. On Friday, October 9, after being fired up during mosque sermons, hundreds of Muslims […]
Indonesia: Muslims call for closure of churches in Sharia province
Aceh is not “conservative,” as the opening sentence of this Reuters piece has it; it is Sharia-adherent. In the mainstream media, you’re both conservative if you oppose Sharia and conservative you implement it. Sharia forbids Christians to build new churches or repair old ones. So while Sharia-adherent Muslims demand the closure of churches in Indonesia, […]
Muslims leaving Indonesia for Islamic State daily: “too many to count”
Watch the video report here from Japan’s NHK news service. In it, a jihadi says that Muslims from Indonesia are leaving for the Islamic State every day, “too many to count.” Even if this is wild exaggeration, which it is unlikely to be, why are any Muslims from Indonesia going to the Islamic State at […]
Indonesia: Muslim mobs attack churches, one dead, four wounded
Shhh! Do not speak of this! Remember: “Talk about extreme, militant Islamists and the atrocities that they have perpetrated globally might undercut the positive achievements that we Catholics have attained in our inter-religious dialogue with devout Muslims and possibly generate suspicion and even fear of people who practice piously the religion of Islam.” — Bishop […]
Relax: Australia and Indonesia to work together to rehabilitate jihadis
How they propose to do this is unclear. Probably they think they will rehabilitate these jihadis by showing them that the tragically misunderstood Qur’an is actually a Book of Peace. Perhaps they will be able to get John Kerry or Pope Francis or David Cameron or some other world-class authority on Islamic teaching to go […]
Indonesian jihad terror convict: jihadis are misunderstanding Qur’an and Hadith
Laskar Jihad was burning down churches. “The hadiths clearly say that Prophet Muhammad condemned such actions and it made me think that what I was doing was wrong,” said Jumu Tuani. “It has been narrated by ‘Umar b. al-Khattib that he heard the Messenger of Allah say: I will expel the Jews and Christians from […]
Australia: Muslim linked to efforts to send money and men to the Islamic State
The man is identified only as “white” in this story, but as with all such stories, race is completely irrelevant. If his Indonesian wife is a devout Muslim, then he had to convert to Islam to marry her. That’s the salient point, because he wouldn’t have gotten involved in sending money and men to the […]
Indonesia: Police open fire on church, kill 15-year-old boy
When the police are corrupt and compromised, what recourse do good citizens have? And in Muslim countries the police can often be made up of Islamic supremacists who sympathize with mobs who victimize Christians, or who believe that Christians should abide by Sharia restrictions not to build new churches or repair old ones. And this […]
“Tens of thousands” of Muslims in Southeast Asia support the Islamic State
What accounts for this extensive outbreak of misunderstanding of Islam? The significant support that the Islamic State enjoys in Southeast Asia demonstrates the falsity and fatuity of the mainstream Western narrative regarding Islam and jihad. “The terrifying rise of ISIS in East: Terror horde recruits tens of thousands to its sick cause in south-east Asia,” […]