Ahmadiyah spokesman Deden Sujana said that the Ahmadiyah Muslims had been forced to jump over the fence to get in and out of the mosque.
Source/Credit: The Jakarta Post
By The Jakarta Post | May 16, 2014
The Bekasi city government locked down the Al-Misbah mosque, a place of worship for Ahmadiyah Muslims, on Friday in Bekasi, West Java.
According to Sudiana, the head of the legal department of the Bekasi city administration, there had been several protests from the general public about the Ahmadiyah activities being held in the mosque, as reported by tempo.co.
Sudiana added that the government responded by deploying several personnel from the Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) to lock the mosque.
According to Sudiana, this was the government's way of enforcing several regulations that stipulate that Ahmadiyah activities in the mosque are prohibited. This was further emphasized by the fact that the Bandung State Administrative Court had approved their move to lock the mosque, he said.
Ahmadiyah spokesman Deden Sujana said that the Ahmadiyah Muslims had been forced to jump over the fence to get in and out of the mosque.
"Hundreds of Ahmadiyah Muslims are having to struggle just to enter the mosque ," he said.
At the start of the year, the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) said that human rights abuses may rise in 2014, especially against minority groups because there were no regulations that protected them. (fss)
Read original post here: Ahmadiyah Mosque sealed off in Bekasi
This content-post is archived for backup and to keep archived records of any news Islam Ahmadiyya. The views expressed by the author and source of this news archive do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of Ahmadiyya Times.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Thank you for your comments. Any comments irrelevant to the post's subject matter, containing abuses, and/or vulgar language will not be approved.