Muslim mob attacks Christians in Bekasi, dozens are injured

Another horror story from moderate, modern Islamic Indonesia.  These stories of Muslim violence against Christian and other minorities are happening on a daily basis.  The Indonesian government aids and abets the persecution of religious minorities so there is no recourse for them except to cease their worship or leave the country.

FROM ASIANEWS.IT:

08/09/2010 17:17
Muslim mob attacks Christians in Bekasi, dozens are injured

Denied the right to meet in church, Ethnic Christian Bataks are again subject to violence once. Police is accused of just looking on. Many women are attacked.

Jakarta (AsiaNews) – Hundreds of Muslim extremists and residents in Bekasi, 25 kilometres east of Jakarta, attacked dozens of members of a Protestant Church. A mob of about 800 angry Muslims stormed an open field in Ciketing Asem, Bekasi, Sunday morning, where Christians were holding Mass. After taking over the place, they roughly threw the Christians out.

Although present at the site, police just stood idly by, looking at what was happening, forming two lines to create a protective corridor that allowed the Christians to walk away. However, some of the latter were chased and beaten. “Several of them were wounded,” a churchgoer told AsiaNews. “Several of them were women”.

The attackers included members of radical groups like the Islamic Defender Front (FPI) and Islamic Community Forum (FUI).

Sahara Pangaribuan, an attorney that represents the Christian community, slammed police and the government for “not providing protection and security to the minority religious group”.

Bekasi’s Christian community belongs to the Batak Christian Protestant Church (Indon: Huria Batak Kristen Protestan). As the name indicates, members are ethnic Batak and their languages and customs are used during religious ceremonies.

This is the third time the FPI and the FUI disrupt an open-air religious ceremony held by the HKBP in Bekasi.

Tensions rose when the local authorities took away from the Church’s permit to use its church building, whilst allowing the community to use an open field for Sunday services.
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