FPI Attacks Ahmadiyah Mosque on Eve of Idul Adha

The Jakarta Globe:

Bandung. The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) on Thursday night inflicted damage on a mosque run by Ahmadiyah devotees in Astana Anyar, Bandung.

Dozens of FPI members passed by the An Nasir Mosque at around 9 p.m. and witnessed Ahmadis preparing for the Islamic holiday of Idul Adha. The FPI demanded that they stop what what they were doing, but the Ahmadis refused.

“We were waiting for the cattle to be slaughtered when the FPI came,” Hendar, an Ahmadiyah adherent, said as quoted by Tempo.co. “In the beginning, they came in peace. But at 10:30 p.m. they became outraged and started destroying lamps and windows located on the first floor [of the mosque]. There were ten Ahmadis, including some women, inside the mosque.”

Muhammad Asep Abdurahman, an FPI board member with the group’s Bandung chapter, said at the Bandung Police office that the FPI had objected to the Ahmadiyah activities because such actions were prohibited by the West Java government.

Before the destruction occurred, Bandung police officers brought Ahmadiyah and FPI representatives to a police office to negotiate the situation, but nothing materialized.

Categories: Asia, Indonesia, Mosque

3 replies

  1. Readers like me may wonder….IS ISLAM AND EIDUL ADHA CELEBRATION WAS AND IS PATENTED – “PERSONAL FESTIVAL OF SO-CALLED FPI (the islamic defenders front)?” what a bunch of morons and IGNORANCE THEY ARE….THEY ARE THE REAL ANTI ISLAM AND MORE WORST THAN THE TALIBAN ZOMBIES!

  2. It is very sad. Indonesia looks as if it has a good future, economically and otherwise. However with this act they will ensure that Allah’s blessings will be withheld in the future. Only decicive action by the Government could change it. So far, unfortunately, we have not seen any decicive action by the Government in any anti-Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at incidents. May Allah protect the Jama’at in Indonesia and may Allah protect Indonesia…

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