ABC Radio Australia Indonesian clerics ‘interfere’ with legal process, say rights group …………… An Indonesian court has jailed a minority sect member for six months for defending himself and others from a lynch mob that killed three of his friends earlier this year……………… The sentence was the same or stiffer […]
Arutz Sheva: Indonesian Lynch Victim Gets Harsher Sentence than Assailants A member of a minority Islamic sect who defended his comrades against an attempted lynch has drawn a heavier sentence than his assailants Haifa Israel where Aamadiyya Muslim Community enjoys freedom of religion (Ahmadi Mosque in Kababeer, Israel) The judiciary […]
Source/Credit: LONDON, August 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK expresses its outrage that another of our mosques in Indonesia has been attacked yesterday. The continual spiral of violence and extremist attacks on Ahmadiyya Muslims and other religious groups reflects how Indonesia is slipping into lawlessness which […]
Jakarta Globe: Almost exactly one year ago, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the following on the occasion of Independence Day: “I want to underline the importance of maintaining and strengthening our brotherhood, harmony and tolerance as a nation… In everyday life, we still find cases that don’t reflect the harmony, tolerance and mutual respect […]
(AFP) – WASHINGTON — The United States on Monday criticized an Indonesian court for jailing a minority sect member for six months for defending himself and others from a lynch mob that killed three of his friends. “We are disappointed by today’s sentencing of Deden Sudjana who was a victim […]
Press Release Freedom House, Washington A second brutal mob attack on Indonesia’s Ahmadiyya last week, as well as the harsh sentencing of an Ahmadi victim in a previous attack, are further proof of a troubling downward spiral in religious freedom in Indonesia. Read more
By ALI KOTARUMALOS | AP ARABNEWS JAKARTA, Indonesia: An Indonesian man wounded when Islamic hard-liners launched a deadly attack on his minority sect was sentenced Monday to six months in prison — more than some of those caught on video taking part in the lynching. Human rights groups blasted the […]
Jakarta Globe, Indonesia A senior Amadiyah member was sentenced to six months imprisonment at the Serang District Court on Monday in relation to the violent mob attack that killed three other members of the minority sect on February 6. Deden was convicted of inciting violence, obstruction of justice and disobedience […]
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Source/Credit: MetroTVNews.com By Ahmadiyya Times | August 14, 2011 Makassar: Several hundred members of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) in Makassar, South Sulawesi, destroyed the headquarters of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, a local news channel reported. Metro TV released a video report of the attacks that took place on Saturday, […]
A dull-looking chart projected on the wall of a university office in Jerusalem displayed a revelation that would startle many readers of the Old Testament: the sacred text that people revered in the past was not the same one we study today. An ancient version of one book has an […]
Indonesia’s anti-terrorism agency signed a memorandum of understanding with eight Muslim organizations to study programs that could help prevent attacks fueled by religious extremism. Among the groups to sign the agreement was Nahdlatul Ulama, the country’s biggest Muslim group. The memorandum calls for discussions about religious radicalism without providing details […]
MANADO, Indonesia (Xinhua) – The 43rd ASEAN Economic Ministers and Related Meetings opened here on Wednesday afternoon, involving ministers in charge of economic, commerce, trade and investment in ASEAN member states and dialogue partners. Representatives are about to continue their work on building the time-bound ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by […]
Once the preserve of hard-line preachers, hatred toward Muslim sect now appears to be spreading among pockets of ordinary Indonesians CIKEUSIK, Indonesia — When Dani bin Misra was released from prison last week after serving just three months for smashing in the skull of a member of a Muslim sect, […]
Immigrants of Chinese descendant played a major role in converting the people to Islam. VIVAnews – History has it that the early wave of Chinese Muslims migration into Indonesia was not intended to spread the teachings of Islam. Welfare was the main reason they came into the archipelago. The voyage […]
Adding insult to injury, prosecutors at the Serang District Court on Tuesday recommended nine months in jail for an Ahmadi man critically injured in the deadly attack on members of the community in Cikeusik, Banten. Last week, the court handed down sentences of only between three months and six months, […]
The Serang District Court in Banten recently cleared 12 defendants of the primary charge of inciting hatred and mob violence, but found them guilty of “participation in a violent attack that results in casualties”, in the act of violence that left three Ahmadiyah followers killed in Cikeusik village last February. […]
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Most of the people passing along Jl. Pekojan Raya, Tambora, West Jakarta, probably do not realize about the presence of an old mosque with high historical values located at the left side of the road. The mosque is not only known as a place where Islamic teachings spread from […]
Jakarta Globe: Indonesia’s two largest Muslim groups count a third of the country’s population as followers, but appear to be losing ground in shaping the national conversation about Islam. Drowned out by the raucous voices of Islamic political parties and confrontational hardline groups, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and Muhammadiyah are being […]