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Posted on 09/01/2010 5:29:25 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara. The ubiquitous prayers broadcast from mosques nationwide during Ramadan usually fade into the background for those not inclined to join in them. Until one day they don’t.
An American expatriate living in Lombok for 15 years apparently reached the end of his rope on Aug. 22, when police say he barged into a late-night prayer session with his shoes on, unplugged a microphone and may have even hit one of the worshippers.
Police and witnesses said he was lucky to escape with his life as enraged worshippers chased him, then ransacked his house.
Luke Gregory Lloyd, 64, escaped a beating but is being held by police on suspicion of blasphemy and violating his visa, the deputy chief of the Central Lombok Police, Comr. Lalu Mahsun, said on Monday.
“This man really angered residents of Kuta village in Pujut, Central Lombok,” Mahsun said.
“On the night of August 22 he stormed into a musholla [prayer facility] and berated locals who were performing the Tadarus,” the traditional reading of the Koran that goes late into the night following special 9 p.m. Ramadan prayers.
“He entered with his shoes on and then unplugged the microphone used by locals to recite the Koran,” Mahsun said. “We believe he even hit one of the worshippers because, according to him, they had interrupted his sleep.”
Mahsun said the local religious affairs office would need to decide whether Lloyd had committed blasphemy, which is illegal. If officially named a blasphemy suspect, he will face further questioning.
Meanwhile, police are holding Lloyd under guard at a local hotel while they also confer with immigration officials. Mahsun said Lloyd’s visa expired in April 2006. They declined to say why he was being held at a hotel instead of a police holding cell.
Lloyd has a history of disrupting local prayer services, Mahsun said, but this was his most extreme act.
Nasruddin, a resident of Kuta village, said he had lost patience after Lloyd’s latest outburst, which he said had been deeply insulting to residents.
Worshippers chased after Lloyd, Nasruddin said, but police intervened and took the American into custody before he was injured. Nasruddin said the villagers decided to ransack Lloyd’s house instead.
They broke windows, destroyed furniture and demolished a wall.
“He should consider himself lucky that we decided not to beat him, because we didn’t want to do anything stupid, but some people were unable to control their anger and decided to damage Lloyd’s house,” he said.
After more than 15 years tolerating Lloyd, who bought land and built a house in the village, Nasruddin said his neighbors could no longer stand him.
“We hope the police will give him the proper punishment for insulting our religion and not just let him walk away because he is a foreigner,” he said.
Lloyd reportedly travels back to the United States to extend his residence permit, but has not done so for some four years.
The immigration office in Mataram could not be reached when the Jakarta Globe tried to confirm his immigration status.
Muslims should be more tolerant and accept a diversity of views.
Mohammedanism is a sick, perverted, satanic, malevolent death cult whose prime objective is to impose slavery and/or death over all who suffer the misfortune to fall under its auspices.
The sooner this malignancy is wiped from the earth, the better.
Vaporize the Kabala Rock, the shrine to the desert moon god allah.
New meaning for disturbing the peace, maybe all communities around mosque could do this..
Islam really does disturb the peace
Christians in prayer are often time interrupted, especially when they are praying at an abortion clinic. Oddly, none of them believe that the correct response is to destroy someone's home, or beat them up.
And remember, these are the "peaceful" Muslims, not the extremists.
Thank you for answering this survey, sir. I'll put you down as "leaning negative".
No, don't do that! I have plans for it as I've stated here previously... Drop a neutron bomb on Mecca to clear out the vermin. Then send in the Rangers to recover the stone. Bring it back to New York and embed it in Urinal #1 at the Ground Zero memorial. The lines to use the urinal would stretch around the block in perpetuity.
The Church bells have been silenced in America.......soon we all will have to hear Obama’s most beautiful sounds or we will get this same result.
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What were they tolerating Lloyd being there? Does Indonesia have a lot of corrupt politicians who refuse to enforce immigration law? Does the local paper write a bunch of sob stories about how Lloyd does the jobs Indonesians will no longer do?
“he barged into a late-night prayer session with his shoes on”
How disrespectful!!! With his shoes on? In a prayer service?
Stone him to death.
What a media we have. Let’s not forget to mention the damn shoes.
Insensitive buffoon...next time take your shoes off.
“Vaporize the Kabala Rock, the shrine to the desert moon god allah.”
Actually that rock that is enshrined in that cubic building is called the Ka’aba.
“he barged into a late-night prayer session with his shoes on”
I think that was all that he was probably wearing which might have shocked the Muzzies enough to delay an immediate jihad against him assisting him in his emergency egress from the mosque.
“Police and witnesses said he was lucky to escape with his life as enraged worshippers chased him, then ransacked his house.”
Or he was a fast runner who was wearing a great pair of Nike’s. Kinda like Forrest Gump. Run, Forrest, Run!
With that in mind, he should just claim that he was drunk off his butt when he did it. That will get him off.
Actually, I'm not too much on his side. He knew what he was getting into 15 years ago. Too late to complain now.
“Actually that rock that is enshrined in that cubic building is called the Ka’aba.”
The Ka’aba preceeded Islam. What its original meaning was I am not sure. In crazy mo’s time it was a place were no violence was tolerated and trade could take place without fear. Outside of its environs you were allowed to raid, steal and murder (you know arab family values). In the 10th century a group of Zoroastrians stole the thing. In their escape they damage it. After the thieves were caught and disposed a hellish time for Zoroastrians was had by all. This is the cause of the Zoroastrian dispora to India.
“Actually, I’m not too much on his side. He knew what he was getting into 15 years ago. Too late to complain now.”
The proper response is to buy a loudspeaker system and broadcast disco music. If disco music can’t tame the beast, then you will have to go to nuking them from space.
Now if we could get a naked female to do that, all the men praying would have to kill themselves, noise problem solved.
It's high time we bring the church bells back. It is Biblical to pray in the morning, afternoon, and evening.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if designated churches with bells in each community across America would take turns opening their doors three times a day for interdenomination prayer and worship?
If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive them and heal their land.
Come on, ring those bells!
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