***In Indonesia, several belligerent Islamist groups openly declare that their aim is to rid the country of Christians -- promoting both personal violence and church-burning. Mobs have complied with their wishes by destroying over 600 churches and killing or maiming minority Christians. Businesses owned by Christians have also been bombed. It is difficult for Indonesian Christians to build new churches because they must first obtain permits from the government's Ministry of Religion -- permits that are notoriously difficult to get in Muslim-dominated areas.
***Soalnya geopolitik Indonesia bukan main pentingnya bagi strategi global AS dan negara2 imperialist. Suruh pilih satu, AS dan negara2 imperialis pilih kowotw pada Indonesia, bukan pada agama Kristen. ***Hidup Indonesia ! A war against Christians Published: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 With the dismissal of charges in Afghan-istan against Abdul Rahman, who faced the death penalty for his religious conversion to Christianity from Islam, this past weekend brought a rare bit of good news for Christians living in the Muslim world. But this overdue reprieve should not obscure the persecution faced by Christians in Afghanistan and elsewhere -- a dire situation that has been given short shrift in the Western media. Because of the high-profile Rahman case, it is increasingly recognized that Afghanistan remains an Islamist state -- profoundly hostile to Christians and anyone else perceived to have rejected the state's official religion. But the public is not nearly as aware about similar religious tyranny in other countries. In Pakistan, for instance, it is common for Christians to be falsely accused of blasphemy. Such charges often result in long detentions in jail or prison -- blasphemy can be officially punished by life imprisonment or even death -- and violence in the community. According to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, a false blasphemy accusation against a Christian man in Pakistan last November led to a 1,500-person mob -- incited by local Muslim clerics -- destroying several churches and the homes of Christian families. In Indonesia, several belligerent Islamist groups openly declare that their aim is to rid the country of Christians -- promoting both personal violence and church-burning. Mobs have complied with their wishes by destroying over 600 churches and killing or maiming minority Christians. Businesses owned by Christians have also been bombed. It is difficult for Indonesian Christians to build new churches because they must first obtain permits from the government's Ministry of Religion -- permits that are notoriously difficult to get in Muslim-dominated areas. Algeria has just introduced severe new penalties for conversion from Islam, purportedly designed to counter proselytizing Christians. And in Iraq, Christians are routinely being kidnapped, assaulted and killed, with church bombings becoming common. As Lawrence F. Kaplan wrote in these pages yesterday, tens of thousands of Christians have had to flee Iraq since the American invasion, which inflamed anti-Christian sentiment -- and more still would leave if they could. When other groups are persecuted to this extent, the world rarely turns a blind eye. Our willingness to do so in the case of Christians is shameful. http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/editorialsletters/story.html?id=d87785a3-cf4e-4c86-a6f8-567ded2ea436 Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
