Another update on the unrest across Indonesia.
The 1200 officers at the scene 'did not make any arrests to avoid greater clashes' the Jakarta Post was told by Cental Jakarta Police Chief Heru Winarko. But 'we definitely won't let them wander around without being responsible for their crime.'
If readers think I'm over the top on this, here's part of the JP editorial for 3/6/08 "Major mainstream Muslim organisations Muhammadiyah and Nadhalatul Ulema have failed to outrightly condemn Sunday's violent attacks...just about all Islamist parties have remaind silent, whch raises serious questions about their commitment to religous freedom and the right of minorities to practice their faith.'
So some sanity is about. Students in Cirebon held a demo calling for the FPI to be banned, and Adnan Buyung, a lawyer and presidential adviser - whose advice obviously falls on deaf ears - 'it was so surprising that the police just stood there and let the violenc happen. They should have immediately arrested the attackers and their leaders.'

Not surprising to those who have watched the swine wreak havoc with impunity for years.
Needless to say, the great and good clambered on the bandwagon, with SBY inveighing against violence, but he is simply a wind-bag. His real 'action plan' was clearly set out by his Minister for Politics, Law and Security, Widodo Adi Sucipto,, who was asked about a ban on th thug group.'I think the Home Ministry will study it further,' while Attorney General Hendarman Supandi told the JP 3/6/2008 'there should be several steps before suspending an organisation.'
Suspending- no ban? The A-G is cool - 'first we issue them
reprimands, then we go to the Supreme Court.'
The leaders of pig group were totally unrepentant. Habib Riziq, the FPI chairman, declared 'war' on members and supporters of Ahmadiyah. We will never allow for the arrest of a single member of our our force before the government dissolves Ahmadiyah.
We will fight to the last drop of our blood.'
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The spokesman for the Islamic Troop Command, Munarman, who astonishingly is a former chairman of the Indonesian Legal Aid Institute, said, " The clash in Monas is just an initial warning to whoever supports Ahmadiyah.I have prepared my people for a possible long-term war." He admitted he was the leader of the attack and blamed the Alliance, for 'they spread their wrongful accusations against us in the newspapers.'
Brave words, uttered by craven hyenas! This morning, Wednesday, the thugs offered no resistance!
Meanwhile victims are still in hospital, including a journalist named Mohmmed Guntur Romli, who has a swollen eye and broken nose, sustained after the islamist pigs beat him with sticks while he was trying to proect a woman from their thuggery. Another patient is Dedi Achmed, aged 57, who was also beaten up for trying to prevent assault on a woman'

Then we woke up today Wednesday 4/6 to Breaking News, trucks of police to the FPI hq, just a bit west of our neighbourhood, loaded about 60 or 70 rats and carted them off to Police HQ for questioning.

Exactly how it will play out is hard to foresee, for SBY is a man of straw and will bend with the wind.
My forecast remains the same, that he will 'sort of' crack-down on the rats but will also split the difference by banning Ahmadiyah.
I would prefer to be proven wrong, but we must wait and see.
---update Monday 9/6
The readership response to the on-going saga in Indonesia has prompted us to update our reports and comments asap.



The situation is becoming weirder each day, with a front-page story in the Jakarta Post 6/6 clearly stating the head thug, Munarman, had been arrested at the home of criminal-cum;cleric in Sentul, near Bogor. Then today, 7/6, with scarcely a blush, the JP calmly announced that was hogwash. Then, on TV One, it was announced that Munarman had been found killed in the wilds north of Bogor. Simultaneously, the police officially denied the truth of that story.

Elsewhere, demos continue, interesting pictures of the NUs paramilitary Ansor in Batam, and uniformed youths in Magelang preparing for action, though the FPI and NU in Bandung have now agreed a non-aggression pact.

Meanwhile, incredibly, crowds of bigots are coming out onto the streets to back the primitives, a swarm of jilbabbed bints and their menfolk today 8/6 in Tagerang, and a succession of people have filed into the police headquarters to offer support to the chairman of the FPi held there. Yesterday, Saturday 7/6, Zainuddin, a Muslim loudmouth and self-publ;icist with no real distinction to his credit, as well as Rhoma Irama, self-styled King of Dangdut, were among the luminaries. This is the same Irama, known for his enormous carnal appetite – he goes through wives like a dose of salts – who told a concert after the terrorist bombings that his was ‘a religion of peace.’ Go figure!



And of course the mangy old pig Abu Bakar Ba’ashyir turned up on our screens on Sunday decrying the ill-feeling against his fellow freakos, blaming it all on a needless delay in banning Ahmadiyah!



One cleric who did not go to see the FPI mafia boss was Ustad Jefri, a local ‘televangelist, who dissociated himself from the brutal attack. But it was he who met and welcomed the above-mentioned Abu Bakar, a rabid old Islamonazi who wants infidel tourists harmed, when that ancient swine was released from prison a couple of years ago. Go figure!



But most significant of the supplicants who arrived to offer their comfort to the High Pig was no less than Kholil Ridwan, the Chairman of the MUI, the Indonesian Council of Ulemas, the government sponsored body which issues fatwas against pluralism and hates the Ahmadiyiah. MUI bleated a few words of criticism of the fanatic violence last Sunday. Now they hug the perpetrator! Words or actions, which speak louder?



One nice little bit of news was that that Mohamed Subahan, the lout recorded on video repeatedly punching a victim (of course from behind) at the Monas riot, has been picked up by cops at his home in Karawang, a mile or two east of Jakarta.



But what will happen when the pigs come to court we don’t know, SBY’s Minister of Religious Affairs, either ignorant or arrogant, recently told non-Muslims to keep out of the Ahmadiyah dispute. So the religious minorities should not concern themselves when injustice is meted out to their Muslim fellow-citizens? Denial of religious liberty is not the business of anyone who does not bow to Mecca? What a wonderful example of tolerance Minister Maftuh Basyuni is! But he is the authentic voice of the in-crowd here. They want the rest of us, and the rest of the world, to turn a blind eye while Islamofascism goes to work on the Muslim dissidents.



The Jakarta Post has been pretty acceptable in its treatment of the issue.

The letters page in the JP yesterday 6/6 was 100% hostile to the FPI and today’s 7/6 was about 90% the same. But the regime does not represent these people and they know it. Most correspondents attacked the government as much as the FPI, and in particular the cowardice/complicity of the police was mentioned again and again. But alas, JP lefty bias managed to seep through in two otherwise interesting articles by Ariel Heryanto, a Melbourne University lecturer (perhaps one can’t get a job in Aussie unis without leftist credentials) which he concluded yesterday (Saturday) by arguing that ‘the situation…has been made possible by the systematic annihilation of the left in Indonesia since 1965.’ I had taken the trouble to sms the letters page of the JP to argue that since the PKI is banned as a menace to liberty, so should the FPI be outlawed. Needless to say, my opinion was not published. The former propagated the irrational class-hatred of Marxism, backed up by vicious repression of dissenting voices, while the latter thrives on sectarian hatred and uses terror – hardly too strong a word to describe its violent intimidation of anybody who incurs its disapproval, He also laments the ‘absence of the intellectual left.’ He eivdntly does not read the JP very often, for it teems with left-liberals who fancy themselves as ‘intellectuals.’



Meanwhile, incredibly, a succession of people have filed into the police headquarters to offer support to the chairman of the FPi held there. Zainuddin, a Muslim loudmouth and former army general, as well as Rhoma Irama, self-styled King of Dangdut, were among the luminaries. This is the same Irama, known for his enormous sexual appetite – he goes through wives like a dose of salts –who told a concert after the terrorist bombings that his was ‘a religion of peace.’ Hence his determination to offer solace to a Muslim mobster who masterminds intimidation?

But most significant of the supplicants who arrived to offer their comfort to the High Pig was no less than Kholil Ridwan, the Chairman of the MUI, the Indonesian Council of Ulemas, the government sponsored body which issues fatwas against pluralism and hates the Ahmadiyiah. MUI bleated a few words of criticism of the fanatic violence last Sunday. Words or actions, which speak louder. That smug bigot was on ANTV this Sunday blathering about tolerance while saying Ahmadiyah had no right to worship as they pleased.t

Monday 9/6 traffic was bad due to 5000 freakos staging a demo outside the Presidential Palace, demanding Ahmdiyah be banned. But some interesting stuff in the Jakarta Post, an admission from a regime minister that FPI was originally sponsred by a Jakarta Police General!

Plus further detail on the NU based militia preparing to fight FPI if need be. And Munarman is still on the run - or hopefully dead!

Updates as practicable..
TUESDAY EXACTLY AS FORETOLD AHMADIYAH "FROZEN' TO BE PUNISHED IF THEY DON'T convert to Islamist agenda.
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