H/T: Gary Rumain
A westerner tastes ‘moderate’ Indonesia
Stephen Alexander: I didn’t know about my dhimmi status
before opening my mouth to these Islamic supremacists
A Second Villa Trashed in Lombok after Alleged Insult to Islam
“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” -Marcus Aurelius
H/T: Gary Rumain
A westerner tastes ‘moderate’ Indonesia
Stephen Alexander: I didn’t know about my dhimmi status
before opening my mouth to these Islamic supremacists
A Second Villa Trashed in Lombok after Alleged Insult to Islam
This is a few days old now, but as we have new commentor here on Vlad who insists on pasting snippets out of context from the Old Testament and possibly the new in a futile attempt to mitigate the horror that is Islam on earth today I thought I would post this to see if there is an actual equivalent in the non-Muslim world.
Eeyore
Indonesian authorities have arrested an American man for blasphemy after he pulled the plug on a loudspeaker at a mosque because it woke him up, police say.
Luke Gregory Lloyd, 64, was taken into custody after he disrupted a nightly Koran reading session near his home on Lombok island which was being broadcast over the mosque’s loudspeaker during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
The incident happened on August 22 and Lloyd has been under police guard at a hotel ever since, pending further investigations.
“He got angry as the Koranic reading woke him up. He scolded people in the mosque before pulling out the loudspeaker’s cable,” police officer Lalu Mahsun told reporters.
He could face five years in jail under the mainly Muslim country’s blasphemy laws.
© 2010 AFP
Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) — Indonesian Muslims have been praying in the wrong direction, the country’s highest Islamic authority has said.
The Indonesian Ulema Council told the country’s Muslim populace in March to turn west when they offered their daily prayers. Muslims are supposed to face the Kaaba, the religion’s most sacred site in the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
At the time, the council said that the direction of Kaaba from Indonesia laid to the west.
Turns out, it didn’t. Africa did.
So, on Friday, the council issued a new edict: face northwest.
“After the first fatwa (edict) a few months ago that stated that the praying direction is west, we have announced that the correct direction for praying is indeed northwest, and we have issued a new fatwa (edict) to correct it,” said Ma’ruf Amin, the head of fatwa division in the Indonesian Ulema Council.
“This is important because facing west will mean that people were facing Africa when they pray,” he said.
Amin said the new edict does not mean that mosques in the country will need to be torn down. “They (those praying inside) just need to adjust their praying direction slightly,” he said.
Some residents of the world’s most populous Muslim country took the change in stride.
“I don’t really worry about the praying direction,” said Riza Irwansyah, an office worker in Jakarta. “The important thing is I prayed to Allah and I believe He will listen, no matter which way I’m facing.”
By Ali Kotarumalos ASSOCIATED PRESS
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian police announced Friday they had uncovered and foiled a plot to assassinate the president and other top officials, massacre foreigners in Mumbai-style attacks and declare an Islamic state.
Please visit the Washington Times for the rest of this important story.
Thanks to KitmanTV who provided much evidence on how in fact, Indonesia has not been ‘moderate’ as Islamic countries go for sixty years or more, if it ever was. Kitman provided these excellent documentaries about Indonesia and horrors there inspired by Islam.
I wonder, could Chomski have actually gotten one right? A broken clock I guess…
And here, a 20 minute Journeyman film on Ambon’s religious bloodbath. This is hard watching but it does straighten out any misconceptions that Indonesia is in any way a ‘moderate’ Muslim nation.
And of course, a re post of the three minute film on Indonesia’s sharia law police which started this all, and how they are about to start stoning women to death for crimes of perceived sexual transgressions contrary to Islam