Hard-line Islamic Groups Again Attack Praying Christians
Jakarta Globe | August 08, 2010
About 300 Islamic hard-liners on Sunday again attacked Christians who have been forced to pray in an open field in Bekasi, West Java. Related articles
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390105@yangyilin: quoting yours
“When sectarian violence took place in Maluku, I don't recall people calling on "moderate Christians" to take responsibility. Of course, when it's Muslims, it's one fringe group of Muslims = every Muslim in the world must apologise, condemn, take responsibility. About as logical as saying "all Christians must be held accountable for the KKK or Hitler". “
You would have embarrassed yourself if you did because most of the victims were Christians. Yes, there were a number of mosques burned down, but there were a lot more (hundreds) of churches were burned during that time, and some were burned with its church members still in it. Oh, btw, KKK and Hitler did not represent any Christians at all. You better do your homework, teman!
@londoedan: this isn't something new, same thing happened during Suharto's administration. it's just only recently people/media started highlighting it. at his time, none of these issues would be publicly accessible. sad, but that's the truth.
What about asking the praying people for money to feed dying people on the street corner in Jakarta rather than attacking them?
yangyilin = KKK a Christian organization? I do believe you got it totally wrong. Go to Wiki and read about it. As for the mad Adolf Hitler, he was a Nazi. What else?
I wonder where is SBY....is he deaf or blind?
Bekasi, Indonesia. In the latest attack by extremists on religious minorities in West Java, 300 Islamic hard-liners intimidated, bullied and assaulted a priest and 20 Christian churchgoers praying in a field in Bekasi on Sunday morning.
The attack follows an identical incident last Sunday, when 300 members of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) and Islamic People’s Forum (FUI) protested against members of the Batak Christian Protestant Church (HKBP) from Pondok Timur Indah.
Churchgoers have been worshipping in a field in Ciketing Asem after the Bekasi municipality sequestered their church and sealed it from use.
Bekasi Mayor Mochtar Mohammad reportedly promised to let the Christian group hold church activities in Bekasi’s public areas and also agreed to send police to safeguard the church’s activities.
That appeared not to have happened on Sunday.
Reverend Luspida Simanjuntak told the Jakarta Globe that 20 churchgoers were praying in a field when they were surrounded and told to leave, which they refused to do.
The hard-liners then began to close in on the group and pushing followed. Luspida and another priest were also assaulted.
Luspida said the incident had prompted the group to file charges against the religious groups, alleging assault and defiling a religion.
She said she hoped the Bekasi local government would act to allow her congregation to pray in peace and safety.
“Each time we pray, we are shadowed by terror. If we’re not allowed to worship in the field, give us a facility elsewhere,” she said.
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