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| Southeast Asia |
| Christians in Indonesia rally over shariah |
| 2008-08-06 |
| About 1,000 people from a Christian group in Indonesia's Papua province held a rally on Tuesday to protest against any implementation of Islamic law in the province where an increasing number of Muslims have settled. The protesters, some wearing headbands with white crosses and carrying banners saying "Papua, shariah no", also said they rejected the establishment of Islamic boarding schools and Islamic banking in the remote eastern province. "We reject shariah implementation in Indonesia in general and especially in Papua," Pastor Salmon Jumame told the crowd. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 And the Christians there do, by the way, as do the missionaries all over Papua New Guinea, many of whom I know, including a Bishop over there. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-08-06 18:21 |
| #3 Big Jim, by anyone with any humanity and any sense of geopolitical realism. Or would you rather have all of New Guinea overrun as long as its nobody you know, you bigoted piece of isolationist shit. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-08-06 18:20 |
| #2 By who? Nobody gives a rat's ass about Papua province, and certainly not the Christians that live there. Now if they had oil, that might be another story. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-08-06 12:04 |
| #1 The muzzies have been trying to simply outpopulate the New Guinea Christians, and take from them their property. Why? Because there are gold mines in the hills. Papua New Guinea (the other side of the island) has seen Muslims with firearms causing trouble with the upland tribes there as well. This must be stopped, and stopped quickly. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-08-06 02:26 |