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Three Churches Targeted in Central Java Violence
Jakarta Globe | February 08, 2011

A number of cars and motorcycles burning in the parking lot of a church in Central Java on Tuesday. A mob burned churches and clashed with police as they demanded the death penalty for a Christian man convicted of blaspheming against Islam, police said. (AFP Photo/Anis Efizudin) A number of cars and motorcycles burning in the parking lot of a church in Central Java on Tuesday. A mob burned churches and clashed with police as they demanded the death penalty for a Christian man convicted of blaspheming against Islam, police said. (AFP Photo/Anis Efizudin)
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forgetyourself
5:40pm Feb 10, 2011

people are easily provoked when they have a very bad education, low confidence and are indoctrinated with religious or politcal propoganda.

I think the combination of these problems in most "very religious countries, such as israal and middle east and south east asia are the reasons why there is so much religious violence

TakingTosh
1:24pm Feb 10, 2011

whose dream ozzo? It is my nightmare - the end of tolerant religions based on love not fear.

TheSplodge
1:18pm Feb 10, 2011

@ ozzo the taliban

And so says the voice of Indonesian Islam

batikbooby
12:49pm Feb 10, 2011

More civilised countries view religions as something to be overcome, not something to drag into the 21st century. Perhaps it is true that Indonesia has the most ignorant populace in Asia.

ozzo
12:36pm Feb 10, 2011

Ahmadiyah, Christian, Budhism, Hindu, and others are in the beginning of annihilation. That's the dream.

A Muslim mob burned churches and clashed with police in Indonesia on Tuesday as they demanded the death penalty for a Christian man convicted of blaspheming against Islam, police said.

Two days after a Muslim lynch mob killed three members of a minority Islamic sect, crowds of furious Muslims set two churches alight as they rampaged in anger over the prison sentence imposed on defendant Antonius Bawengan, 58.

A court in the Central Java town of Temanggung had sentenced the man to five years in jail, the maximum allowable, for distributing leaflets insulting Islam.

But this only enraged the crowd, who said the sentence was too lenient, police said.

"Today was the climax of the trial ... The mob shouted that he should receive the death sentence or be handed over to the public," Central Java province police spokesman Djihartono said.

"There are two churches that have been burned. The windows were shattered and the roofs were charred ... There is also another church that was damaged."

About 1,500 protesters took to the streets and pelted stones at the police, who responded with tear gas and fired warning shots into the air. One police vehicle was set ablaze, Antara news agency reported.

They chanted "kill, kill" outside the court and "burn, burn" as they set upon the churches.

"There were about 1,500 people who protested against 1,000 police members. The situation is calm now," Djihartono said.


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