| #1 Fred, I wish I could say that the Indonesian government doesn’t let Christians down -- but I can’t. Right now, the Indonesian government apparently still doesn’t quite grasp that appeasement will only end up destroying the Unity that is so highly prized. Christians are easily targeted as a threat to the Unity message, because their doctrine can be made to seem exclusionary. I don’t know that the government realizes (yet) that Christians don’t destroy Unity, and that the Christian religion would actually promote Unity. Up till now, the Indonesian government has turned a blind eye toward Islamofascist persecution of Christians, and has tried to appease the Islamofascists. My hope is that the government is beginning to realize that Islamofascism poses the true threat to Unity in Indonesia. The re-arrest of Bashir was encouraging in that regard. Thinking positively, perhaps the police (not military) arrest of this woman and her child was for proactive, protective reasons . . . |