Muslim mobs burn Christian homes: Attack began at 3 a.m., continued until all were destroyed

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Wednesday, April 28, 2004

[JohnHuang2]

Muslim militants in eastern Indonesia burned down several hundred homes in an overnight attack on a mainly Christian area where 26 people were killed in three days of fighting.

The attacks on Christians in Maluku province, once known as the Spice Islands, continues with no end in sight, according to the Washington, D.C.-based human rights group International Christian Concern.

Laskar Jihad warriors

On Monday, several hundred homes of Christians were burned down in the Tanah Lapang Kecil and Batugantung neighborhoods of Ambon, the provincial capital.

The attack began at about 3 a.m. and continued into the afternoon hours until all of the homes were destroyed, ICC said.

According to news reports, government buildings have been abandoned and taken over by unidentified snipers using the rooftops to scout victims, including several policemen who have been killed in the past few days.

Maluku, which has been about half Christian and half Muslim, came under attack between 1999 and 2002 from a radical Islamic group called Laskar Jihad, or Army of Holy Warriors, which aimed to make Indonesia an Islamic state.

As WorldNetDaily reported last year, the group has continued to operate despite formally announcing it had disbanded.

Many of its members have joined the al-Qaida-linked terror network Jemaah Islamiah, blamed for the 2002 Bali bombings and last year's suicide attack on the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta.

According to the Australian Associated Press, the latest violence began when members of the region's small Christian separatist Republic of South Maluku marched through Ambon to mark the 54th anniversary of a failed independence bid.

Indonesia has the largest Muslim population in the world, with more than 180 million. A minority supports the radical Islamic parties that share the aim of converting the nation into an Islamic state, analysts say.

In response to the march, the AAP said, Muslim gangs torched houses and churches, and set fire to a local Christian University and United Nations offices.

Several people also were hacked to death with machetes by the mobs, AAP reported, before hundreds of troops from Jakarta arrived to try to quell the attacks.

Under Indonesia's former leader in the 1970s and 1980s, Suharto, Muslims were sent to Maluku to dilute the secessionist movement.

The separatist leaders called for international intervention to stop the fighting while Christian leaders in Jakarta appealed to the central government.

The leader of the radical Muslim Brotherhood, Habib Husein al-Hubsyi, threatened earlier this week to send 7,000 holy warriors to the province.

[kimosabe31]

Islam, the religion of love. What a crock!!

Is there any conflict on the entire planet in which muslims are not the cause??

[rogueleader]

Time for a new crusade.

Let us defend our fellow Christians.

[Don W]

Yet another legacy of the Xlintoon years: don't forget that Suharto and BillyJeff were buds, and BJ (in order to get SOMETHING, we're not certain what exactly, fron Suharto) put millions of tons of Utah anthracite (top-grade, low ash low polluting coal) into an un mine-able legal quagmire.

[Travis McGee]

Insane murder cult ping.

[river rat]

This is going to be a long war against militant Islam..
We may yet, have to kill millions....

Islam IS the enemy..
Only a fool would attempt to deny that...

If Islam was a religion --- the 90% "moderate" "peace loving" Muslims would SUPPRESS THE LUNATICS in their midst..

Do you see this happening - on any significant scale?
Of course you don't..

Where are the cries of "Ethnic Cleansing" or "HATE crimes" -- when it is only Christians and Jews dying..

Does one need to start shooting Muslims indiscriminately to get their attention to clean their filthy house?

Semper Fi

[dennisw]

Mohammedans would pull this s*it s lot more often if it was in their power. Mohammedans make awful neighbors, historically they covet other people's land and women. Women to make into Islamo baby factories.

[dennisw]

Mad Mo' was the Charles Manson cult leader of his time. Manson was a wuss compared to mad Mo'.

[lonevoice]

ping

[HiTech RedNeck]

And the world yawns. Satan's plans continue apace.

[broadsword]

Once again the Muzanderthals show the true face of Islam, and "enlightened" liberals cover it up for the religion of peace.

Human civilization had better wake up soon and get as serious about its survival as the seventh-century savages are about our annihilation!

Islam is a deadly world-wide plague, and liberalism is the AIDS virus that thwarts our defense.

[cherry]

"Women to make into Islamo baby factories."

I was unaware that they even liked women...thought they preferred young boys....

[tessalu]

These Christians have been asking for prayer, so please pray for them. The trials that they have are hard for us to imagine. Please pray for God to keep them in his care.

[ladyinred]

Thought you might be interested in this, although you likely already know about it.

[ladyinred]

You could not be more correct. Meanwhile the 911 commission continues.......!
The frustration I feel is unexplainable, but I doubt I need to.

[Tropicalwatcher]

I bet that with in 50 years that will be us.

[Master of Orion]

We'd better start building more MOABs. We're gonna need them!

[miltonim]

Muhammad-inspired persecution of Christians, Jews and all non-Muslims continues...

Mohammed, The Mad Poet Quoted....

[Lion Den Dan]

In the eye of my mind, looking upon the picture of the Laskar savages, I see the religion of peace. It lingers on the down range side of the cross hairs and blooms with glorious radiance at each pull of the trigger.

[230FMJ]

50 years? How about 5 years or less if Horseface, Shillary, Schumer, Lautenberg and thier ilk ever succed in disarming American Citizens. Then we can kneel and wait for decapitation on our Government-Issued prayer rugs.