Indonesian Islamists Protest Obama Visit
November 13, 2011
About 2,500 Islamists gathered in Central Jakarta on Sunday to protest the upcoming appearance of US President Barack Obama at the EAST Asia Summit in Bali at the end of the week. (JG Photo/Afriadi Hikmal) Related articles
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478127justpasser man
the problem is if they vote and then lose will they stop attacking things and accept the result? no way man - they are committed to violence if needs be and use it all to often.. HT, JI, FPI etc all committed to violently forcing us to be a sharia state and man that sux
jpb; yes right. But thereafter there is no way to change it back. So 20-30 years down there will be an Indonesian spring (if the country not fell apart before at the time of change) to change it again. But luckily this is theory only. Wont happen. Furthermore, you obviously have a misconception of "democracy": it is not ALL FREE and freedom, it is bound to many rules. But since you are so obsessed with the creation of IndoStan you probably haven't noticed or learnt.
JPB
Its a fair point. Perhaps instead of the violent tactics used by the groups who want an Islamic State in Indonesia we should have a vote, indeed I guess groups like the PKS are doing just that...
Dear child I am at a loss to see why any right minded person would on the global evidence want an Islamic State. People in the ME are dying to gain democracy and you and others advocate a move to Sharia... What is in it for you? Can't you practice your faith without imposing it on others? What are you scared of that makes you and others so insular and backwards?
@Roland, the calligraphy maybe similar as written on the Saudi green flag. However the meaning could be translated in many ways as if one would be reading the Q'uran.
@Billjayman,if it wasn't for the Japanese trespassing on this country, Indonesia would probably be still under Dutch Administrative rule.
a constitution is just a document voted in by the people. the people can also vote to change the constitution. what if the people made their mind to vote for a change in the constitution to make this an Islamic Republic? There are rules and laws about changing the constitution, so it is obviously lawful to agitate for constitutional change to Islamic. Who said the country must be eternally secular?
Hundreds of Islamists rallied in Central Jakarta on Sunday to protest against this week’s visit by US President Barack Obama.
Around 2,500 protesters from the radical Muslim group Hizbut Tahrir shouted “Reject Obama” and “America is Terrorist” outside the US embassy as they brandished banners with slogans such as “Reject Obama, Reject Capitalism, Reject Imperialism.”
“We strongly oppose America and Obama coming to Indonesia,” the group’s spokesman Mujiyanto told AFP.
“Obama is a murderer of our Muslim brothers in Palestine and Afghanistan, a thief of Indonesia’s natural resources, and an imperialist who seeks to take over the world and will do anything for US interests,” he added.
Similar protests were also held Sunday in other cities, including Surabaya in East Java and Makassar in South Sulawesi.
Obama will be in Indonesia for the 18-nation East Asia Summit at the end of the week.
The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit, with observing nations including the United States attending, is also taking place this week.
The delegates are meeting to discuss major regional issues, such as territorial clashes in the South China Sea and the Myanmar’s bid to take over Indonesia’s role as Asean chair in 2014.
Radical groups like Hizbut Tahrir have little popular support in the archipelago of 240 million people.
Indonesia, the most populous Muslim-majority country in the world, is constitutionally secular and culturally moderate.
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