Posted on 12/26/2005 1:47:25 PM PST by ncountylee
POSO, Indonesia — Masked, black-clad and brandishing machetes, the attackers sprang from behind a screen of tall grass and pounced on the four Christian girls as they walked to school. Within seconds, three of the teenagers were beheaded — fresh victims of violence that has turned this Indonesian island into yet another front in the terrorist wars.
"All I could do was pray to Jesus for his help," said 16-year-old Noviana Malewa, who fled with a gaping head wound. "I was streaming with blood." A thick scar runs from the back of her neck to just under her right eye.
Muslim militants are blamed for the October killings, the most gruesome yet in a campaign of terror against Christians on the island of Sulawesi.
Muslim-Christian violence from 2000 to 2002 killed some 1,000 people in Sulawesi and attracted Muslim militants from across Indonesia, including from Jemaah Islamiyah, a homegrown network linked to Al Qaeda, and even from the distant Middle East.
Despite a peace deal, bombings, shootings and other attacks on Christians have continued, especially around the small town of Poso in the heart of the octopus-shaped, Massachusetts-sized island.
Behind the attacks are Muslim islanders avenging their dead in that conflict, and terrorists bent on fomenting a new war, former fighters and security officials say.
"They want to see Poso become alive with the spirit of jihad again," said Fahirin Ibnu Achmad, an Afghan-trained militant who took part in the 2000-2002 war.
"It is easy to recruit people who have seen their relatives slaughtered," said Achmad, who claims to have renounced violence after spells in prison for gunrunning and taking part in an attack on a Christian village.
Sulawesi is one of several islands in what some call Southeast Asia's "triangle of terror" —
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Thanks for posting this. Those having to face the prospect of such attacks deserve our prayers.
So just what is news here? This is just muslims being muslims.
Is this a NEW attack?
I heard about this a few WEEKS ago. Is FOX just catching up on this?
This is horrendous.
Not a new attack but follow up.
For anyone interested in what some are doing to try and help out the muslim communities in the south Phils, please go to AsiaAmerica.org The Director is Al Santoli, the Congress has made it a tax deductible organization, and it is a project put forward also by Dana Rohrabacher and Kurt Weldon, as the way to try and help the good people on the island of Sulu. They are building hospitals, schools, etc. and is a worthy project that could use some additional help. It had been listed as the AsiaPacific Initiative.
The "religion of peace" never ceases to repulse me.
Thanks for this information. I have been looking for information on groups assisting those undergoing religious persecution in Indonesia, but for the most part I think discretion dictates that the assistance be provided without any publicity at all.
Allah's cowards brigade.
They are here, among us.
The "attacks" are happening every day around the globe.
Totally horrible.
How have Muslims' relatives been slaughtered? They're the ones doing the slaughtering.
Every Muslim needs to look back into his/her family history, find out which religion their forefathers were forcibly converted from, and convert back. Whatever it was, it will be better than being a fanatical Muslim. If they did it en masse, no one would kill them for leaving Islam.
"It's the most wonderful time of the year!"
for slaughtering peaceable Christians...
Violence is not creating an Island of terror, Muslims are creating a world of terrorists.
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