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| Southeast Asia |
| Indonesia radicals urge 'Myanmar jihad' |
| 2013-05-04 |
[Pak Daily Times] Two Indonesians have been tossed in the clinkYouse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! over a plot to bomb the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta, officials said on Friday, as snuffies rallying in the city called for "jihad in Myanmar" to avenge Moslem deaths. The incidents highlight the growing anger in Moslem-majority Indonesia over a string of religious festivities in largely-Buddhist Myanmar that have left many minority Moslems dead and tens of thousands displaced. At least one person was killed when mosques and homes were attacked in central Myanmar this week, the latest anti-Moslem unrest to cast a shadow over political reforms in the formerly junta-run country. Around 1,000 angry hardliners from the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) converged on Myanmar's embassy in Jakarta on Friday, brandishing banners that read "we want to kill Myanmar Buddhists" and "stop genocide in Myanmar". They torched the Myanmar flag, while chanting "burn down the embassy" and demanding to speak to officials inside, as hundreds of police in riot gear stood guard. "Our Moslem brothers and sisters are being attacked in Myanmar -- they are being raped and murdered," said Bambang, a 37-year-old street vendor, who like many Indonesians goes by one name. "I want jihad in Myanmar. Anyone mistreating Moslems should be killed." The national head of the FPI, Habib Rizieq, shouted through a loudspeaker to whip up the crowd, mostly men wearing white Islamic skullcaps, as they marched on the embassy. Earlier, officials said anti-terrorist police had detained two men suspected of planning a kaboom on the Myanmar embassy. The suspects were tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! late Thursday travelling by cycle of violence in a busy residential area in the south of the capital with five assembled pipe bombs, national police front man Boy Rafli Amar said in a statement. The men, Sefa Riano, 28, and Achmad Taufiq, 21, planned to launch the attack on Friday, said a senior source at the country's anti-terrorist police, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 I like it |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-05-04 20:25 |
| #4 Peace and Love Is what we do If you disagree We'll murder you Burma Shahid
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| Posted by: swksvolFF 2013-05-04 19:02 |
| #3 You left off Bad and Babes |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-05-04 18:46 |
| #2 just wait til we can macro: "Burqa Boomers Bombing Burma" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-05-04 18:07 |
| #1 Well, it'll keep 'em off the tourists.... |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-05-04 18:05 |