Will the Islamophobia never end? Islamic Tolerance Alert from modern, moderate Indonesia: “Hardliners in Bekasi Throw Stones at Ascension Day Service,” by Camelia Pasandaran for the Jakarta Globe, May 17 (thanks to Twostellas): A mob of Islamic hard-liners threw stones and bags of urine at the HKBP Filadelphia congreagation of the Batak Christian Protestant Church […]
Lady Gaga gagged in moderate Indonesia after Islamic opposition
Modern, moderate Indonesia is not moderate enough to tolerate this “envoy of the devil’s child.” “Lady Gaga gagged in Indonesia after Islamic opposition,” from Reuters, May 15: (Reuters) – Pop star Lady Gaga has been refused a permit to perform in the Indonesian capital next month over security concerns, police said on Tuesday, after Islamic […]
Moderate Indonesia: 17 churches closed in Sharia province of Aceh
These church closings are taking place in Aceh, the province where Sharia is being implemented. Clearly it is being implemented by Misunderstanders of Sharia who don’t know that it is benign, tolerant, and fully compatible with the values enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. Islamic Tolerance Alert from modern, moderate Indonesia: “Church Row a “˜Dark Time” […]
Indonesia: Police do nothing to protect Ahmadiyah mosque from Islamic Defenders Front attacks
The Ahmadis are considered heretics by mainstream Muslims, in part because they eschew violent jihad (but not dawah or Sharia). So this apparently means that they deserve no police protection from Muslim thugs, even in modern, moderate Indonesia, that paragon of Islamic tolerance. “Indonesia: Police Failed to Protect Ahmadiyah Mosque from Attacks,” by William Gomes […]
After getting physically attacked in Indonesia, Irshad Manji starts to realize that maybe it isn’t as “moderate” as she thought
Hugh Fitzgerald said it back in 2008: “Irshad Manji has certainly created her own private Islam. She is the child of Asian refugees from Uganda. She has never lived in a Muslim society. She has always enjoyed the freedoms of the West. But she feels, out of filial piety, and perhaps for other reasons, that […]
Indonesia: Islamic supremacists vow to mobilize 30,000 demonstrators to prevent jihad violence Lady Gaga concert
Priorities. “Indonesia Islamists threaten to stop Lady Gaga show,” by Presi Mandari for AFP, May 9 (thanks to EH): A hardline Islamic group warned Wednesday it would not let Lady Gaga set foot in Indonesia, challenging an army of fans awaiting a concert in the nation with the world’s largest Muslim population. The Islamic Defenders […]
Indonesia: Islamic supremacists misunderstand Islam, stall gender equality bill
Now wait a minute. Muslim spokesmen in the West constantly insist that Islam respects women; some even claim that Islam grants them equality of rights with men (see, for example, here). And yet Muslims in Indonesia are opposing the gender equality bill on Islamic grounds. And oddly enough, the Muslim spokesmen in the U.S. and […]
Modern, moderate Indonesia: Muslim scholar faces five years in prison for blasphemy; trial moved for fear of lynch mobs
He dared to suggest that the Qur’an of today is not the original one. In other words, a historical claim, which ought to be subject to study and dispassionate inquiry, is ruled out of court as “blasphemy.” This is the kind of law that the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) wants to bring to the […]
Indonesia: Sharia police cane 13 for premarital sex, gambling
Here is yet more evidence of how Sharia is benign and fully compatible with the U.S. Constitution, as Islamic apologists insist. The sex in public should have been penalized in some way, but the caning is barbaric. “Indonesian ‘punks’ caned for pre-marital sex,” from AFP, April 20: LANGSA, Indonesia “” Sharia police in Aceh, the […]
UK’s Cameron: Indonesia proves that “democracy and Islam can flourish alongside each other”
It used to be Turkey that proved that, but no one can claim that any longer with a straight face. And so Cameron, as poker-faced as possible, holds up as a paragon of Islamic democracy and rejection of “extremism” a country that is increasingly hostile to its Christians and to the Ahmadis, a Muslim group […]