Sunday, July 31, 2011

Indonesia: Ahmadiyah Attackers Get Away With Murders - Once Again Demand to Outlaw Ahmadiyah

Nearly 1,500 white-robed protesters - gathering days after a court sentenced 12 men to jail for lynching three Ahmadiyah sect members - marched through the streets until they reached the presidential palace.

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Source/Credit: Today Online | Singapore
By Today Online | July 31, 2011

Conservative Muslims held a peaceful rally in Indonesia's capital yesterday to demand the government outlaw an Islamic sect they consider heretical. Nearly 1,500 white-robed protesters - gathering days after a court sentenced 12 men to jail for lynching three Ahmadiyah sect members - marched through the streets until they reached the presidential palace.

Indonesia has a long history of religious tolerance but experts say a small, extremist fringe has grown more vocal in recent years.

Ahmadiyah is considered deviant by most Muslims and banned in many Islamic countries. AP


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  1. AnonymousJuly 31, 2011 at 6:23 PM

    See http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/07/29/light-cikeusik-sentencing-highlight-legal-discrimination-rights-group.html

    Mirza Imran Ahsan, Sydney | Sat, 30/07/2011 - 08:07am

    I applaud Muhamadiyyah and human rights organisations of Indonesia for displaying the flickering conscience of the Indonesian people keeping the flame alight in the extremist storm. I hope this attitude may prevail for the betterment of country. Unfortunately the Indonesian government, prosecutors and the legal system all have buckled to the pressures of the extremists. History tells us that governments' inaction on such extremists and savage trends and taking them lightly by keeping quiet always leads to bigger ground for anarchist extremists. Pakistan is the great example in question. A country which was once the largest Muslim nation in the world (before 1971), it had extraordinary potentials and promises for the world at that time, slowly and gradually buckled to the Islamic extremism in 1970s and 1980s. The collapse is almost complete now. It is in a mess, a failed state indeed where government is unable to protect its minorities or even majorities, almost a lawless country with a failed economy creating large exodus of its educated youth. I am afraid to say such decisions from Indonesians courts are in fact creating a bleak future for the Indonesia too, which was a beacon of light up till now for the Muslim world.

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