Don't waste your time proving how tolerant you are to people who are obvious religious bigots.
Jakarta?
That's Obama's home town.
Doesn't surprise me a bit. I'm just relieved that it isn't (yet) happening here.
One wonders what would happen if someone actully stood and pronounced. "Hell No We're Not Closing Squat You Diaper Wearing Freaks"!
INDONESIA
Qur'ânic exams now required in school and to get married A provincial ordinance in West Sumatra that takes effect in 2008 requires written and oral Qurânic test for students from elementary to high schools. Married couples must also pass the test. Test applies to Muslims and Non-Muslims alike. Local political leader shrugs off possible concerns for non Muslim communities.
Jakarta (AsiaNews) The Indonesian province of West Sumatra has adopted an ordinance to take effect in 2008 requiring all students from elementary through high schools as well as couples to be married to take a written and oral tests on the Qur'ân and this irrespective of their religion.
Guspardi Gaus, who chaired the special provincial commission that developed the ordinance, said a number of gubernatorial decrees would be necessary to implement the regulation, along with changes to school curricula, but the provincial bylaw should apply to every city and regency (district) within the next two years.
I'm surprised the guy still has a head on his neck and the house isn't a smoking pile.
In a sane world -- diplomatic reciprocity would require that we shut down a Mosque for every Church, Temple, Shrine, Synagogue or voodoo hut shut down or destroyed my Muslims - WORLDWIDE..
Perhaps then, the Whore Mothers of Islam in Saudi Arabia and Iran would leash in their animals...
Failing that -- sooner or later, millions will die.
Semper Fi