Posted on 10/29/2005 10:37:41 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember
Three girls have been beheaded and another badly injured as they walked to a Christian school in Indonesia.
They were walking through a cocoa plantation near the city of Poso in central Sulawesi province when they were attacked.
This is an area that has a long history of religious violence between Muslims and Christians.
A government-brokered truce has only partially succeeded in reducing the number of incidents in recent years.
Police say the heads were found some distance from the bodies.
It is unclear what was behind the attack, but the girls attended a private Christian school and one of the heads was left outside a church leading to speculation that it might have had a religious motive.
Central Sulawesi and Poso in particular was the scene of bitter fighting between Muslims and Christians in 2001 and 2002.
More than 1,000 people were killed before a government-brokered truce.
Although the violence has been subdued, it has never gone away completely.
A bomb in May in the nearby town of Tentena, which is predominantly Christian, killed 22 people and injured over 30.
The fighting four years ago drew Islamic militants from all over Indonesia and many have never gone home.
Analysts say the militants have targeted central Sulawesi and believe that it could be turned into the foundation stone of an Islamic state.
The analysts have warned that the violence could resurface at any time.
bttt
My first thought is that this is an extremely effective way to teach the youth that they better damn well conform to the Moo way and that there will be no two ways about it.
This is abominable....just disgusting! Words cannot express how barbaric this is!
I have actually read the Koran cover to cover. This is in fact the way Islam has always been spread fro Day 1: terror, brutality, and murder. How else would such an evil, vile sect have ever prospered?
bttt
This should be in breaking news, so that more people can see it.
Wonder if the US media covered this story at all?
It is spread by the Koran & by colusion of the liberal press never putting this on their headlines/frontpage.
But just wait for the 2000th military death then it is non-stop headlines.
Why would you put this on the front page - after all Islam is just a Religion of Peace....! I am sure they had it comming !!!!!
This should be in breaking news, so that more people can see it.
Wonder if the US media covered this story at all?
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