Ga aneh, Ottoman jg sdh melakukan cara serupa secara besar2an. From: holy uncle <[email protected]> >To: PROLETAR <[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 9:08 AM >Subject: [proletar] Indonesian children forced to convert to Islam > > > >10-February-2012 -- EWTNews Feature Share | > >Indonesian children forced to convert to Islam > >Some one thousand children from East Timor who were snatched from their >families more than ten years ago are being detained by force at national >Islamic schools in western Java and compelled to convert to Islam. > >The Church in Indonesia and Catholic humanitarian workers told Vatican-based >Fides news agency on Feb. 7 that the children are kept at Muslim-run schools >and are not allowed to return to their families. > >During the war of independence in 1999, some 250,000 refugees from East Timor >crossed the border into West Timor to escape the violence of pro-Indonesia >militias. > >Among these refugees were 4,000 children, many of whom could not be fed by >their families and were turned over to the military and to humanitarian >organizations. As a result, more than one thousand of them never returned to >their homes and are currently held as prisoners in Islamic boarding schools in >Java. > >Representatives of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and various NGOs in >Indonesia have tried to repatriate the children without success. Meanwhile, >many of their parents are not allowed access to see them. > >The secretary of the Indonesian Bishops' Committee on Inter-Religious >Dialogue, Father Benny Susetyo, said, "It is urgent that the use of religion >in politics be limited. The Western Java zone is an example: Muslim groups >want to impose rules based on Sharia law." > >He said the main problem in East Timor is "excessive bureaucracy and >corruption: two issues that influence the detaining of these children. > >"This is a sad case of obvious abuse," he added. > >The bishops' Committee on Inter-Religious dialogue sought a solution from the >government, Muslim organizations and the United Nations, but "cases such as >these show how the relationship between politics and religion has a grave >impact on the freedoms of citizens, especially minorities," Fr. Susetyo said. > >Read more: http://www.ewtnnews.com/catholic-news/W ... z1mNQeuzAA > >http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=117946 > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > >
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