Hundreds of protesters chanting “Kill, kill” set fire Monday to an Indonesian mosque belonging to a Muslim sect they claim is heretical, police said.
A policeman was wounded in the head when the crowd stoned the mosque in West Java province before setting it ablaze, said police spokesman Col. Dade Ahmad. Several suspects were taken in for questioning.
The attack was the latest targeting the Ahmadiyah sect in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation.
Most mainstream Muslims consider Ahmadiyah heretical because it does not consider Muhammad to be the final prophet. The sect was founded at the end of the 19th century in Pakistan.
Last week, a team of prosecutors, religious scholars and government officials said the sect “had deviated from Islamic principles” and recommended it be outlawed. There have been several acts of vandalism targeting Ahmadiyah since then.
About 300 people torched the mosque and destroyed an Islamic school building inside the Ahmadiyah compound in Sukabumi town just after midnight. Many sect members have since fled the area, seeking refuge with friends and relatives.
“We heard the attackers chanting ‘Burn, burn’ and ‘Kill, kill,’” said Zaki Firdaus, one of the sect’s members. “It was horrifying.”
Around 200 people living on the mosque’s compound got away before the crowd arrived. The police were called, “but the attackers came faster,” Firdaus said.
Ahmadiyah followers have been persecuted for years, but last week’s recommendation prompted an escalation, said sect spokesman Syamsir Ali. Four mosques have been destroyed since the April 16 announcement.
It was “like a poison, not a medicine for this nation,” he said. “We don’t know what will happen with us tomorrow.”
Indonesia is a secular country with a long history of religious tolerance. But in recent years a hard-line fringe has grown louder and the government - which relies on the support of Islamic parties in Parliament - has been accused of caving in to it.
Ahmadiyah, believed to have 200,000 followers in Indonesia, has also faced persecution in other Muslim countries. Its followers insist it should be considered part of Islam.
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Re: Muslims chanting, Kill , Kill, at other Muslims for Heresy
Hundreds of protesters chanting "Kill, kill" set fire Monday to an Indonesian mosque belonging to a Muslim sect they claim is heretical, police said.
A policeman was wounded in the head when the crowd stoned the mosque in West Java province before setting it ablaze, said police spokesman Col. Dade Ahmad. Several suspects were taken in for questioning.
The attack was the latest targeting the Ahmadiyah sect in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.
Most mainstream Muslims consider Ahmadiyah heretical because it does not consider Muhammad to be the final prophet. The sect was founded at the end of the 19th century in Pakistan.
Last week, a team of prosecutors, religious scholars and government officials said the sect "had deviated from Islamic principles" and recommended it be outlawed. There have been several acts of vandalism targeting Ahmadiyah since then.
About 300 people torched the mosque and destroyed an Islamic school building inside the Ahmadiyah compound in Sukabumi town just after midnight. Many sect members have since fled the area, seeking refuge with friends and relatives.
"We heard the attackers chanting 'Burn, burn' and 'Kill, kill,'" said Zaki Firdaus, one of the sect's members. "It was horrifying."
Around 200 people living on the mosque's compound got away before the crowd arrived. The police were called, "but the attackers came faster," Firdaus said.
Ahmadiyah followers have been persecuted for years, but last week's recommendation prompted an escalation, said sect spokesman Syamsir Ali. Four mosques have been destroyed since the April 16 announcement.
It was "like a poison, not a medicine for this nation," he said. "We don't know what will happen with us tomorrow."
Indonesia is a secular country with a long history of religious tolerance. But in recent years a hard-line fringe has grown louder and the government - which relies on the support of Islamic parties in Parliament - has been accused of caving in to it.
Ahmadiyah, believed to have 200,000 followers in Indonesia, has also faced persecution in other Muslim countries. Its followers insist it should be considered part of Islam.
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MUSLIMS CANNOT KILL OTHER INNOCET PEOPLE:
See the link where mulim in Pakistan,, Waziristan has killed innoccent man.
The kids said they want to go JANNAT,, ,, ARE THEY MUSLIMS
Re: Muslims chanting, Kill , Kill, at other Muslims for Heresy
Hundreds of protesters chanting "Kill, kill" set fire Monday to an Indonesian mosque belonging to a Muslim sect they claim is heretical, police said.
A policeman was wounded in the head when the crowd stoned the mosque in West Java province before setting it ablaze, said police spokesman Col. Dade Ahmad. Several suspects were taken in for questioning.
The attack was the latest targeting the Ahmadiyah sect in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.
Most mainstream Muslims consider Ahmadiyah heretical because it does not consider Muhammad to be the final prophet. The sect was founded at the end of the 19th century in Pakistan.
Last week, a team of prosecutors, religious scholars and government officials said the sect "had deviated from Islamic principles" and recommended it be outlawed. There have been several acts of vandalism targeting Ahmadiyah since then.
About 300 people torched the mosque and destroyed an Islamic school building inside the Ahmadiyah compound in Sukabumi town just after midnight. Many sect members have since fled the area, seeking refuge with friends and relatives.
"We heard the attackers chanting 'Burn, burn' and 'Kill, kill,'" said Zaki Firdaus, one of the sect's members. "It was horrifying."
Around 200 people living on the mosque's compound got away before the crowd arrived. The police were called, "but the attackers came faster," Firdaus said.
Ahmadiyah followers have been persecuted for years, but last week's recommendation prompted an escalation, said sect spokesman Syamsir Ali. Four mosques have been destroyed since the April 16 announcement.
It was "like a poison, not a medicine for this nation," he said. "We don't know what will happen with us tomorrow."
Indonesia is a secular country with a long history of religious tolerance. But in recent years a hard-line fringe has grown louder and the government - which relies on the support of Islamic parties in Parliament - has been accused of caving in to it.
Ahmadiyah, believed to have 200,000 followers in Indonesia, has also faced persecution in other Muslim countries. Its followers insist it should be considered part of Islam.
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First of all, Ahmadiyahism is not a sect of Islam; to claim the opposite without any evidence is complete nonsense.
Second, what is this article doing in religion section? What picture are you trying to paint here? It is very clear that Islam forbids killing innocent people regardless of their belief and even if their country is on war with an Islamic state. What some Muslims do is not an Islam; to understand Islam you have to go back to its sources: Qur'an and authentic sunnah. So I don't see what you are trying to tell us!
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First of all, Ahmadiyahism is not a sect of Islam; to claim the opposite without any evidence is complete nonsense.
May be you do not agree. Many people also like you do not agree. That is OK.
But why they are attacking other people place of prayer in mosque? Ahmadiya or any other, why it matter?
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May be you do not agree. Many people also like you do not agree. That is OK.
But why they are attacking other people place of prayer in mosque? Ahmadiya or any other, why it matter?
Hmmmm..... maybe these ppl have been mislead by some socalled islamic scholars that attacking/hurting/killing Ahmadis is a way to enter the Jannat ..... do ur search using Internet u'll fine loads of such incidents
To AllahkaBanda: To u Ahmadis may not be Muslim but we consider ourself Muslims and don't care what the rest of u folks think and say about it ......
Who is a muslim and who not that u better leave to Allah the almighty Lord then only he is who will be the Judge , Jury and Executioner on the day of resurrection .....