Indonesian Officials Destroy Church in Front of Worshippers As Muslims Egg Them On

Gateway ^ | March 24, 2013 | Jim Hoft

[george76]

Indonesian city officials destroyed a Christian church in front of its weeping congregation. Muslims stood around and egged on the destruction.

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Muslim protesters egged on workers and branded the Christians “infidels”.

Dozens in the 100-strong congregation wailed as a digger tore down the brick walls, with worshippers accusing the government of “criminalising our religion”, in a sign of increasing intolerance in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation.

“My heart is aching and I feel numb watching my church collapse. I went to this church for 11 years,” worshipper Megarenta Sihite, 46, told AFP, wiping away tears as fellow worshippers, dressed in black, hugged each other..

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In Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, five churches were attacked by vigilantes wielding Molotov cocktails in February

[allendale]

Maybe its time for Congress to list countries that do such atrocities as terrorist states and unworthy of interactions with decent people.

[Eagles6]

king barry will comment on this atrocity in t..4..3..2..1..........oh, never mind.

[dadfly]

bookmark.

[Shadowstrike]

while I feel for the people this happened to, I also blame them for letting it happen.

Everytime a Muslim wanted something their way, and people in the name of tolerance gave it to them or the government gave it to them, it was a brick in the road to this.

We all better start making noise, and alot of it, or this will be us and very, very soon.

[RedHeeler]

This is not a matter of tolerance, by complacent christian comradery. So, what are you implying?

[Cronos]

what do you mean? In Indonesia, Christians are dominated in sheer numbers by Moslems. What do you expect them to do?

[ArcadeQuarters]

These are the “good” Muslims.

[MikeSteelBe]

“These are the “good” Muslims.”

How true.

Peaceful muslims are apostates because they are not doing what their Koran instructs them to do.

[jsanders2001]

He will probably bus that group of Muslims into the U.S. and have them do the same to churches here.

[who knows what evil?]

The Muslims are looking forward to the day when they will behead Christian Americans on our soil.

[LearsFool]

“My heart is aching and I feel numb watching my church collapse."

It's the building that's collapsing. The church is outside watching the event.

Awful enough, I admit. But if your church is collapsing, you've got bigger problems than just having a building torn down.

(When Jesus said, "Upon this rock I will build My church," He wasn't talking about something with pews and a pulpit.

[TexasFreeper2009]

well..

when you have two religions:

one that preaches turn the other cheek, while the other preaches kill the infidel..

who do you think is going to win (on Earth at least)?

[Wurlitzer]

Just like most debates with lying liberals, we suck at it.

Right off the bat we let the lying liberals define the terms of the debate so there is no possibility of winning.

Is-Slime is at best a hate cult. It does not deserve any of the normal protections offered to a religion.

You do not grant religion status those who continue their 6th century sand monkey belief in a lower than whale crap pedophile scum of the earth fake prophet. allah=all lying lizard a$$ hole.

[Venturer]

To king barry this was not an atrocity.

[darrellmaurina]

There seems to be something wrong with the Gateway Pundit link. It says it's connecting to a story on the Straits Times, but is actually connecting to a story in the Jakarta Post about a church being sealed, not a church being torn down. There is also a separate story about churches being threatened with Molotov cocktail attacks.

Links here:

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/03/24/west-jakarta-church-sealed-during-services.html-0

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/02/18/churchgoers-defy-threats-violent-attacks.html

If the Jakarta Post link is correct, the root issue seems to be that the Damai Kristus Catholic Church in Tambora, West Jakarta, lacked a building permit to build its building.

I'm quite aware that denying building permits is a common tactic used to restrict Christian churches in Muslim countries, so building a church without a building permit should not be regarded as a renegade religious group defying the law.

Let's remember that the next time we deal with zoning ordinances and building codes in the United States — things could get bad very quickly if neighbors could use zoning hearings and building code variance hearings to restrict the growth of small churches in residential areas or large churches which, like any other business, create traffic congestion issues.

[bayouranger]

Shhh! It's prayer time.

[TexasRepublic]

“These are the “good” Muslims.”

They are only good at room temperature.

[Kenny Bunk]

Let me straighten you out, O infidel dog!

All you and your fellow infidels need to do is accept Muhammed and you will live in peace. We are the Religion of Peace. Accept Muhammed and live in peace. Refuse, you will know the Peace of the Grave and you will be our slaves in Paradise, like forever, Dude.

Why is it that you infidels cannot understand this wonderful deal. But wait, there's more. Since you will be our slaves in Paradise for all eternity anyway, we might let you live if you keep real quiet, a low profile, surrender your daughters, and of course, pay the dhimmi taxes for the furtherance of the cause of Muhammed, MPBUH (May Peace Be Upon Him).

Get with the program, pork chop.

[Brown Deer]