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Southeast Asia
Islamists murder Christians, Falsely reported as "ninjas"
2004-04-12
The Australian Press Council has issued a statement warning media outlets not to use the word "Islam" in conjunction with stories on terrorism, for fear of whipping up Islamophobia (after many complaint letters from Islamic lobby groups). Here you can see the first disgusting example of this from a previously free tabloid news source: The Daily Telegraph. Note how Islamists attacking and killing Christians becomes "clashes" and "fighting" as though the Christians are fighting back, when every bit of factual news in the story only describes Islamists killing/shooting Christians.

Not only this they describe the Islamists (fundamentalists using Islam as a political doctrine) as Muslims (people who happen to follow Islam as a religion)- who are our best allies in the WOT. So the backlash will be against innocent moderate muslims because people are kept ignorant of the real perps. Blaming two sides equally when only one side is to blame is biased misreporting and is completely disgusting.

Police no wiser on ninja gunmen
From Rob Taylor in Jakarta April 12, 2004
INDONESIAN police today admitted they had few clues about the identity of three masked "ninja" gunmen who sprayed automatic gunfire into a crowd of Easter worshippers in central Sulawesi, sparking fears of renewed religious bloodshed. Hundreds of police Mobile Brigade reinforcements were flown into the town of Poso this afternoon to prevent further clashes between Christians and Muslims After Islamists shot at Christians having a peaceful religious ceremony after seven people were wounded in the Saturday night shooting attack. The three gunmen, mounted on a single motorbike and wearing black clothes and masks, opened fire with M-16 assault rifles on the Tabernacle church in Kilo village, near Poso, and then fled before local police could arrive.

The churchgoers, who had been singing an Easter hymn, dived under pews to escape the hail of bullets. Police blamed the attacks on "armed troublemakers" who they said were probably attempting to stir up fresh religious tensions in the divided township, where Islamic terror network Jemaah Islamiah is said to be regrouping and training fresh recruits. "We cannot tell who it was yet. It is still under investigation," local police chief Abdi Dharma said. "All we know is that this was an ISLAMIST armed terror group." Fighting in the Poso area first flared in 1999 after a religious war erupted in the nearby Maluku islands, and only subsided in 2001 after more than 2000 deaths and a government-brokered peace deal.

But sporadic fighting murders/massacres has continued and last October gunmen killed 10 people in attacks on mainly Christian villages. Last month, gunmen shot dead a local clergyman, Reverend Freddy Wuisan, in Tomura village and a female university lecturer was wounded in another shooting in March. Police arrested five men after those attacks, including one said to be of Arab descent. Dharma said the situation was under control and Christian residents had been urged not to retaliate. but we won’t even name those who were to blame nor urge Islamists to stop killing Christians. Just keep sitting there and being shot like good little dhimmis. A recent International Crisis Group report on Poso warned JI and other extremist groups, including one new militant outfit named Mujahidin Kompak, may be recruiting in the region and aiming to provoke fresh fighting.

Meanwhile, some candidates in Indonesia’s recent national elections warned fresh fighting could also occur in the Maluku capital of Ambon after voting split between the main Christian party and the conservative Muslim PKS, instead of large secular parties. M Junis, the Ambon leader of Indonesia’s largest Muslim organisation, the 30 million strong Nahdlatul Ulama, said both parties would have to work together to prevent religious fanaticism.
Why not email the editor and tell him what you think? Spread it far and wide: freedom of the press in Australia is a JOKE

letters@dailytelegraph.com.au
Posted by:kanga

#3  And these fucking idiots what us to take them seriously and show them respect? Fat chance. Especially when they're allied with Arabs, too.

Get out of the 4th Century or die, you ignorant losers. You're pathetic.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2004-04-12 7:03:11 PM  

#2  Did anyone tell Frank J about this?
Posted by: Anonymous4119   2004-04-12 12:26:26 PM  

#1  Amish terrorists? Buddhists, maybe?
Posted by: mojo   2004-04-12 12:10:38 PM  

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