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| Hardliners torch "heretical" Indonesian mosque |
| 2008-04-28 |
| Hundreds of hardline Indonesian Muslims burnt a mosque early on Monday belonging to a sect that has been branded heretical by most Muslims, police said. The attack in West Java's Sukabumi district came after a government team recommended this month the Ahmadiyya sect be banned because its teachings deviate from the central tenets of Islam. Sukabumi police chief Guntor Gaffar told Reuters the attack followed an ultimatum by the Jamaatul Mubaligin Forum on Friday to the Ahmadiyyas to remove a signboard from the mosque in two days. He said a policeman guarding the mosque was hurt in the attack and police were questioning eight people in connection with the incident. Earlier this month, an Indonesian government team, which includes officials from the religious affairs ministry, recommended the government ban the sect because its teachings deviate from the central tenets of Islam. An Ahmadiyya spokesman told reporters in Jakarta the agency's recommendation to ban the group on the grounds that it is heretical had led to increased destruction of its mosques. "The recommendation has caused an escalation of mosque destruction run by Ahmadiyyas across Indonesia," the spokesman, Shamsir Ali, told reporters. Ali said the destruction had increased since the government agency's announcement this month and four mosques had been attacked in less than a month. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #12 See also WAFF.com OPinion/Scenario Thread > THE POSSIBILITY OF A THAI-MALAYSIAN PROXY WAR? Malaysia's Govt. being deliber pushed to the brink of collapse by predomin Muslim Fundamentalist pressures - CHANCE FOR REGIONAL = TRANSREGIONAL SPREAD??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-04-28 19:01 |
| #11 Ahmahdiism was the focus of the ruckus over the 'religion column' on the pak passports. Ahmahdis are haram and not allowed to enter Saudi Arabia to perform haj. Pakistanis are required to sign a form denouncing Ahmahdis before they can get a passport. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2008-04-28 14:30 |
| #10 Gee, about a year ago, I believed that every Muslim should die to rid us of this cancer. Now, I believe that every Muslim should die to rid us of this cancer. Not much progress for the moderates. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2008-04-28 13:44 |
| #9 Professor Abdus Salaam, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979, was an Ahmadiya muslim. The Pak dictator Zia Ul Haq was embarrassed when the good professor began to recite the kamlima on Pak TV. It was quickly cut away, since it would have forced Zia to jail Abdus Salaam. It is forbidden in Pakistani law for an Ahhmadiya to claim to be a muslim, or call their meeting places "mosques". Most cannot get passports. The Paks send a list of Ahmadiya to the Saudis, so they can be stopped if they attempt to enter Mecca on pilgrimage. When he died, his tombstone read "the first muslim nobel laureate" A pakistani magistrrate arrived with a squad of policemen and chiseled out the word muslim. |
| Posted by: john frum 2008-04-28 12:37 |
| #8 So much for reforming Islam from within.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2008-04-28 11:05 |
| #7 That makes them just as bad as the Baha'i, another Muslim heresy. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-04-28 10:46 |
| #6 Ahmahdis do not subscribe to the tenet of Jihad by the sword. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2008-04-28 09:52 |
| #5 ROPMA. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2008-04-28 09:03 |
| #4 Not Muslim EnoughTM? |
| Posted by: Raj 2008-04-28 08:57 |
| #3 The attack in West Java's Sukabumi district came after a government team recommended this month the Ahmadiyya sect be banned because its teachings deviate from the central tenets of Islam. That govt team is the source of the problems, yet the media is focused on the rioters. |
| Posted by: Grack Munster3335 2008-04-28 08:55 |
| #2 yes they teach tolerance and worse, they do so on the basis of revelation sent to someone a few hundred years ago. Its a deadly combination. |
| Posted by: mhw 2008-04-28 08:08 |
| #1 What, do they teach tolerance of other faiths or something? |
| Posted by: gromky 2008-04-28 07:52 |