Posted on 11/04/2016 4:30:08 PM PDT by marshmallow
Protesters in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta called for the governor to be arrested
Tens of thousands of hardline Muslims marched on Friday on the centre of the Indonesian capital to demand the arrest of its minority-Christian governor for alleged blasphemy.
Fearing violence, police put on a show of force supported by soldiers and public order officers, while embassies and some shops closed and Jakarta’s normally traffic-clogged streets were nearly empty of cars.
The predominantly male demonstrators, most wearing white shirts and skull caps, massed at the Istiqlal mosque for the protest following weekly Friday prayers and marched on the nearby presidential palace. Large protests also took place in other cities including Medan on Sumatra, Makassar in Sulawesi and Malang in East Java.
Associated Press reporters witnessed members of an Islamic student group throwing plastic water bottles and other objects at riot police, but generally the massive demonstration appeared to have gone off without major incident.
The accusation of blasphemy against Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama, an ethnic Chinese and minority Christian who is an ally of the country’s president, has galvanised his political opponents in the Muslim-majority nation of 250 million, and given a notorious group of hardliners a national stage.
The Islamic Defenders Front, a vigilante group that wants to impose Shariah law, is demanding Ahok’s arrest after a video circulated online in which he joked to an audience about a passage in the Koran that could be interpreted as prohibiting Muslims from accepting non-Muslims as leaders. The governor has apologised for the comment and met with police.
We are here because we want to defend the verses of God that have been abused by Ahok,” said Nasrullah Achmad, who came from Bekasi, a Jakarta satellite city, with dozens of others from his Islamic study group. They raised........
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The actual dispute is whether Mohammed’s crazed rip-off of the Bible forbids his hell bound followers from being governed in this life by a non-Muslim.
islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.
Indonesia, where young impressionable B0Stevedunhambarrysoetorobathhousebarryhusseinsoebarkah learned all about the most tolerant brand of islam.
Yup!
FUislam and NO Catholic should ever allow islam to be legit.
islam is pure male horny evil. Stop teaching it.
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