Posted on 03/28/2006 11:22:39 AM PST by ncountylee
A mob of some 200 Muslim vigilantes forced Christians in Bogor, West Java, to abandon their church service on Sunday, The Jakarta Post reported today.
Police were present but failed to stop the mob, composed of residents from the Griya Bukit Jaya housing complex.
The mob forced approximately 190 Christians to leave a Pentecostal church building and agree to end services. They claimed the church had violated a 1999 decree issued by the governor of West Java and a 1969 Joint Ministerial Decree (SKB) regulating places of worship.
Both decrees require approval from neighbors and local authorities before a church can be established.
At a meeting between Muslim and Christian leaders and civic authorities on March 22, Christian leaders rejected demands to close their unregistered churches – pointing out that local authorities had repeatedly turned down their applications for church permits, despite a constitutional guarantee for freedom of worship.
Islamic groups have attacked and forcibly closed at least 60 churches in West Java over the past two and a half years, citing a lack of permits. Many of these churches have reopened, but they face ongoing attacks and harassment.
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ROP strikes again.
Oddly enough they seem totally unconcerned with what people in other countries think. How could they do this without the consent of France, Germany, and Russia?
This is such unusual behavior for Mohammedans.
Oh mindless fascism, thy name is Islam.
We hear about the mob in Indonesia closing a church but not a peep from the national press and damnd little from the New Orleans press about the mob halting the mass in St. Augustine church on Sunday, 26 March. Muzzies, Commies, Pigs, all the same.
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