Laskar Jihad warriors
Posted on 04/27/2004 11:49:05 PM PDT by 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.
Let us defend our fellow Christians.
I could swear that I remember something from a few years ago involving a covert rescue of some Christians from Indonesia. The men who performed the special-ops style extraction were described as "...wearing military-style uniforms, marked only with crucifix insignia.", or some similar description. IIRC, this was in 2000 or early 2001, before the big picture of worldwide Islamic terror was brought home to us.
I may be mistaken, but I *think* the rescue was in Indonesia. Anyone remember more about this?
The Muslim threat has grown each year in Indonesia. I've seen reports on a Christian "intersessor's network" online which detailed the situation back in 2001 or so - the Christians were literally surrounded and facing a Muslim militia equipped with AK-47s, RPGs, etc. (sound familiar?) and had - at best - a relatively small number of hunting rifles with which to shoot back. Most of the Christians had only spears and other simple hand weapons.
It may be far too late to effectively defend the Indonesian Christians; their situation is dire indeed. In the end, we may only be able to respond long after they are lost. I am reminded of a line from a movie:
"The Pact was to defend. But when life loses it's value, and is taken for naught, the Pact is: to avenge."
Bukhari:V4B51N73 “Allah’s Apostle said, ‘Know that Paradise is under the shade of swords.’”
Qur’an 5:37 “The [Christian] disbelievers will long to get out of the Fire, but never will they get out there from; and theirs will be an enduring torture.”
Qur’an 8:12 “Your Lord inspired the angels with the message: ‘I will terrorize the unbelievers. Therefore smite them on their necks and every joint and incapacitate them. Strike off their heads and cut off each of their fingers and toes.”
Qur’an 8:7 “Allah wished to confirm the truth by His words: ‘Wipe the infidels out to the last.’”
Some sensible Muslims understand this, such as the Turkish military. I think that the majority of adult Americans are afflicted with "egomorphism" which means that we think that everyone is like us, wants the same things, etc. No -- people are not alike all over.
In the 19th century, a wise Frenchman said, "When I am the weaker, I ask you for my freedom, because that is your principle. But when I am the stronger I will take away your freedom, because that is my principle."
You are correct.
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Yes, I believe the California Supermarket strike was the only conflict not caused by Muslims (as far as we know). But that has been resolved, so the Muslims again are the cause of every conflict on earth.
"millions of tons of Utah anthracite (top-grade, low ash low polluting coal) into an un mine-able legal quagmire.
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The beneficiary was a friend of Bill's named Riady.
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