West Java Cop-Out? Islamist Mob to Go Unpunished.
July 16th’s Jakarta Globe surely suggests more questions than answers, most notably on the Police’s interest in serving the community in a non-sectarian way.
No one will be charged in Friday’s mob attack on members of Bogor’s Ahmadiyah community, the National Police said on Monday.
“There are no suspects,” Sr. Comr. Agus Rianto, spokesman of National Police, said.
As RRA reported, a mob of Islamist savages stormed into a peaceful Ahmadiyah village, vandalised several houses in mob violence that left four people injured. Their feeble ‘excuse’ was the presence of foreign journalists – they apparently feared further international exposure of the persecution meted out to this harmless minority,
But on Monday, the National Police said there was no evidence of abuse in the incident. Both sides, Agus claimed, were stoning each other in self-defense. He blamed the clash on the presence of foreign journalists.
“[The] Ahmadiyah have apologized [for the incident] because no one told the [villagers] about the visit from the foreign journalists that triggered the conflict,” Agus said. “They don’t want to be blamed because the journalists — three Dutch journalists and one from Britain — came on their own will. They were not [invited] by the Ahmadiyah people.”
One honestly has to wonder if Agus is sleeping soundly tonight, because the Ahmadi who ‘apologised’ has now spoken up on how the keystone cops even dictated what he had to write!
Mubarik Ahmad previously told the Jakarta Globe that police pressured him to write the apology, telling the Ahmadi man what it should say. “I have no experience in writing such things. The district police chief and military commander told me what I had to write, that it was my fault for not reporting the foreign journalists to the subdistrict head,” Mubarik said on Sunday.