Again Indonesia: Mob sets fire to two churches
Indonesia comes from the headlines not out. No sooner had we digested the terrible images of the killing of three people by an angry mob halfway, Muslims burned down two Christian churches and now further damaged. The occasion was one in their view too mild a sentence against a Christian who had insulted Islam.
Indonesia was indeed long been considered the flagship state for moderate Islam. Currently, however, work for a no small number of followers of the religion of peace zealously working to dismantle this state.
reported Spon:
Some 1,500 Muslims protested on Tuesday in the town of Java. Some of them set fire to two churches and damaged others - from Anger at a ruling against a Christian for insulting Islam. The man was sentenced to a police spokesman said a maximum of such offense maximum penalty of five years in prison because he had distributed leaflets which insult Islam.
The applied mob had demanded the death penalty for a Christian or delivery to the people. The protesters had smashed the windows of two churches and set fire to the building.
During the attack on the churches had the demonstrators' kill, kill "initiative, said the police spokesman. You would also have the police pelted with stones. The forces were then used tear gas and fired warning shots into the air, have now the situation calms. The Antara news agency reported, a police car was set on fire.
Further details can be found at AsiaNews.it. Accordingly, the mob had formed directly after the first trial and attacked the Catholic Church of St. Peter and Paul. The priest, Father Saldhana was brutally crushed while trying to protect the church. Then they went on to attack the Pentecostal Church and burned them. But even that could not satisfy the mob, which then still a Catholic orphanage and a Christian hospital of the Sisters of Providence destroyed. Even a Protestant church in Shekinah was burnt down. Only through the intervention of the police, the mob could be stopped. The
the accused Richmond Bawengan Anthony alleged "crime" was that he had distributed leaflets missionary, in which he mocked, among other things on Islamic symbols. Good people will no doubt criticize the lack of cultural sensitivity that put the accused on the day. As a resident of the most populous Muslim country, one should already be clear that Muslims understand these things not fun.
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