Source/Credit: Human rights first
By Quinn O’ Keefe
When the Indonesian government says it is tolerant of religious minorities, don’t believe it. It is the government’s laws and their selective enforcement that are fueling extremist violence, as well as the continued harassment and persecution of religious minorities.
While all religious minorities are at risk, Indonesia’s Ahmadiyya have been particularly persecuted compared to other minorities. An incident that received international notoriety occurred in February 2011, when more than 1,000 villagers armed with machetes and sticks stormed a house of Ahmadiyya worship, killing three and wounding six others. This happened in a village in Banten, not far from Jakarta. For a short while, graphic video footage of the attack went viral on YouTube (it was quickly taken down). The attackers were caught on tape stoning their victims to death, then beating the corpses as police officers and villagers watched and did nothing to stop the bloodshed.
Categories: Ahmadiyyat: True Islam, Human Rights, Indonesia
The founding fathers and national heroes would cry on seeing this situation. They would be shocked to see how their noble values have been stamped and how the leaders of the day and Indonesian values have been hijacked by a minority of misrepresentatives of Islam.
Mr. Abdurrahman Wahid Gus Dur the former president received the late Head of the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Community, Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad, very respectfully. His daughter Yenny Wahid showed great courage by raising her voice in March 2011 that banning Ahmadiyah is not the right option for their country. We salute such leaders and remind Indonesia what their forefathers had wished for them to celebrate.
Hatred begets more hatred and violence begets more violence, until every thing useful is destroyed. Take a lesson from situation in Pakistan and Jamaat e Islami of Pakistan:
http://www.themuslimtimes.org/2011/08/countries/pakistan/haider-farooq-moududi-exposing-his-father-and-jamaat-islami-in-pakistan