Bagus Maskuron was convicted, but apparently free and well-heeled. The Islamic State attracts Muslims’ loyalty from as far away as Indonesia because of the appeal of the concept of the caliphate. But mainstream Western analysts scratch their heads and wonder why the Islamic State has this appeal, because they are bound as a matter of […]
Indonesia: Muslim group warns President not to say “Merry Christmas”
If he does, they say he will become an apostate from Islam, since Islam forbids Muslims to give good wishes to Christians on the occasion of their feasts. And if he is an apostate from Islam, then according to Muhammad’s command and Islamic law, he can lawfully be killed. “FPI Calls on President Not to […]
Indonesian province to expand Sharia law
What could possibly go wrong? “In the latest of public whippings in Aceh, a prosecutor on December 5 took a cane to six family members who each received five to eight lashes for playing poker for money at a coffee shop. Such floggings have significantly increased recently in Aceh province, not only for gambling, but […]
Jakarta Post’s editor faces blasphemy charge for cartoon mocking Islamic State
Meidyatama Suryodiningrat said: “What we produced was a journalistic piece that criticised the ISIS movement, which has carried out violence in the name of religion.” It is a dogma in the West, not to be questioned on pain of charges of “Islamophobia” and “bigotry,” that the Islamic State’s violent acts are making a “mockery” of […]
To end “discrimination,” Aceh to impose Sharia on non-Muslims as well as Muslims
We are constantly told by Sharia advocates in the U.S. — those who fight to kill anti-Sharia laws in various states — that Sharia applies only to Muslims, and only to their personal religious observance, such that restricting it would be to interfere with their First Amendment rights. The political and supremacist aspects of Sharia […]
Indonesia’s President: “Indonesia is not an Islamic state. We respect all religions.”
What? An Islamic state wouldn’t respect all religions? Is Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono some kind of Islamophobe, willfully misunderstanding the Religion of Tolerance? “Indonesian president says Islamic State ’embarrassing’ Muslims,” AFP, August 21, 2014: The president of the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, Indonesia, on Thursday called the actions of Islamic State militants “embarrassing” to the […]
Indonesia: Islamic State magazine handed out at mosques along with vouchers for fried chicken
Come for the chicken. Stay for the jihad. The Islamic State recruits in modern, moderate Indonesia: “ISIS magazine Al Mustaqbal being handed out at Indonesian mosques along with ‘vouchers for fried chicken,’” by Freya Noble, Daily Mail Australia, August 10, 2014 (thanks to Jerk Chicken): Images showing an ISIS magazine being circulated in Indonesia have […]
Indonesia jihad leader Abu Bakar Bashir pledges allegiance to Islamic State
Abu Bakar Ba’asyir, or Bashir, is the spiritual leader of the jihad terror group Jamaah Islamiyah, and consequently retains considerable influence among Indonesian jihadists. He is the first jihad leader of any significant prominance to jump on the Islamic State bandwagon, but if the Islamic State can sustain itself over a period of years, there […]
Indonesia: Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” attack Roman Catholic Church during Sunday Mass
“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.” — Robert McManus, Roman Catholic Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, February 8, 2013 Yet all that remaining mum about Muslim persecution of Christians, and all that […]
Interfaith outreach in Indonesia: Islamic supremacists force authorities to close seven churches
Shhh! Do not speak of this! “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.” — Robert McManus, Roman Catholic Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, February 8, 2013 “Islamist pressure forces closure of churches in […]