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| Muslims in Indonesia Show Christians What They Think of Them |
| 2025-12-28 |
| [PJMedia] Indonesia has a reputation for being a "moderate" Moslem nation, but the wind in the Islamic world as a whole is blowing in the opposite direction, as a group of Christians has just discovered. Morning Star News, which tracks the persecution of Christians worldwide, reported Tuesday that "as police looked on, Moslems in West Java Province, Indonesia on Dec. 14 formed a human wall to block Christians from attending a Christmas service, according to local media." Notice that it has now been nearly a quarter-century since 9/11, and while we have seen heroic individual Moslems such as Ahmed al-Ahmed, who tackled one of the Bondi Beach jihadis, we have never seen any large-scale Moslem action against terrorism. We have never seen Moslems form a human wall to block an Islamic jihad attack, or to stop a woman from being abused in accord with the direction to "beat" disobedient women in the Qur’an (4:34). But forming a human wall to prevent Christians from celebrating Christmas? No problem. Morning Star News noted that Moslems "from outside Jayasampurna village, Serang Baru Sub-District, Bekasi Regency near Jakarta blocked the congregation of the Huria Kristen Batak Protestant Church (Huria Kristen Batak Protestant, HKBP) from celebrating Christmas at a prayer post near the Green Cikarang housing complex." Local cops and a goggle-eyed crowd watched as "dozens of Moslem men and women holding hands to form the human chain, making anti-Christian comments and shouting the jihadist slogan ’Allahu Akbar [God is Greatest).’" One of the most mistranslated phrases in the entire world, " " The Qur’an tells Moslems that they are the instruments of Allah’s wrath, through whom he punishes the unbelievers: "Fight them, and Allah will punish them by your hands, and he will lay them low and give you victory over them, and he will heal the hearts of people who are believers. And he will remove the anger of their hearts." (Qur’an 9:14-5) Consequently, the Moslems who were blocking the door to the church likely thought of themselves as committing a righteous act, allowing Allah to use them to punish the wayward Christians. And punish they did: "The Moslems held back and pushed members of the church as they struggled to make their way to prayer post for Christmas services." For their part, however, the Christians reiterated that they meant no one any harm: "We only want to worship peacefully — we have no intention of disturbing anyone." This is unlikely to impress any of the local authorities, for among those who blocked the Christians from holding their Christmas celebration was one person who was holding a sign that read: "We, the Moslem residents of Jayasempurna village, firmly reject the construction of illegal houses in our neighborhood forever." Illegal houses? Yes. Islamic law forbids Christians in Moslem lands from constructing new churches, so even the existence of the church was an insult in itself. That may be why "Moslems from outside the area also blocked the Christians from worship on the two prior Sundays, Dec. 7 and Nov. 30." The church has been in its present location for seven years, but that doesn’t mean that the area Moslems have accepted it. |
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| Posted by: chris 2025-12-28 15:18 |