Showing posts with label persecution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label persecution. Show all posts

Thursday, November 8, 2007

Insecure, much?

This is actually slightly surprising given the number of people sentenced (and that it's on Jawa rather than a more obscure/smaller island). Usually Indonesia's Muslim community would at least make an effort to appear tolerant on public level.

Via Dhimmi Watch: Indonesia sentences 41 Christians to five years in prison for proselytizing

But I guess it's true that things have been sliding more into sharia law these days. I won't say that it's more radicalized--churches have been burned and Christians either killed or jailed from way back, but it had all been done "quietly." Now, the radical Muslims just come out and say/do it outright.

There have been tons of Crusades done in Indonesia (attended a few of them myself), many pretty high profile, but it seems that once you mention anything unpleasant about Islam the radical Muslims throw a hissy-fit.