Radical leftists attempt to tell us all the time that Islam is a religion of peace, but nothing could be farther from the truth. Take a long look down the corridor of history. What you’ll see when it comes to the Islamic faith is nothing but bloodshed, oppression, rape, debauchery, and war. It’s what the their scriptures teach. To subject the world to Allah by any means necessary, including violent conquest. Conversion at the point of a sword.
Contrary to what liberals say, there is no tolerance in true Islam for those who are of different beliefs. They especially hate Jews and Christians. Need an example? I have a recent one for you. Persecution of Christ followers still happens, ladies and gentlemen. It’s never stopped.
According to a new report from The Christian Post, officials from Indonesia came out and expressed regret that a video has come out and is being passed around the internet showing a group of radical Islamists storming into a Christian church and disrupting a worship service. They are now attempting to assuage the fears of believers and other citizens by saying that authorities have provided a temporary site for the congregation there to worship.
Soma Atmaja of the Tangerang Regency government said on the agency’s website that his administration had provided a temporary place for the Thessalonica Church congregation in Banten Province to worship, as their prior site lacked a building permit. The church previously held services illegally in a rented house in Puri, Kampung Melayu Timur Housing, Teluk Naga Subdistrict, Tangerang Regency, outside Jakarta, Soma said.
A video that first appeared on July 21 shows a mob of mostly men dressed in typical Indonesian Muslim clothing storming the site and stopping the worship service, saying it was in a majority-Muslim area, according to local media. The intruders also mocked the congregation for worshiping in a rented house, according to forumkeadilan.com.
“You’re holding worship and holding it in a [settlement] where the majority of the population is Muslim — here everyone is Muslim!” one resident yelled to exuberant cheers of support while another man goes on to shout the jihadist slogan, “Allahu Akbar, [Allah is greater],” according to a report from forumkeadilan.com.
Then, after a church member goes on to provide reasons for why they are worshiping at home, the crowd erupts and starts shouting why they should only conduct worship in a church building. Representatives for the church explained that the lease they had for their previous church facility in the Puri Naga Indah Complex was now expired. All those peace loving Islamists then took an opportunity to mock and laugh scornfully at the trials and tribulation of the Christians.
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Teluk Naga Police Chief Wahyu Hidayat said he was confused as to why video of the altercation from back in March had surfaced only last week.
“This was an old incident, three months ago,” Wahyu said during an interview with national news channel Medcom, which is owned by Metro Television. He then said that the conflict between both groups had been resolved in a peaceful manner.
The Join Ministerial Decree of 2006 in Indonesia requires a permit for all worship venues that are to be used on a permanent basis, “excluding family places of worship,” activists said.
“According to The Joint Decree of the Two Ministers, Chapter 1, Article 3, what needs a permit is the construction of a church,” rights activist Permadi Arya, known as Abu Janda, wrote in 2023. “Holding worship at home, shop-houses and cafes needs no permission.” Such homes, cafés and shop-houses can be equated with Muslim traditional prayer-rooms (musholla), and since Muslims need no permission for those, Christians should receive equal treatment, he said.
Islamic extremists have been largely responsible for using lack of building permits as a pretext for closing or attacking churches since the passage of Indonesia’s Joint Ministerial Decree of 2006, which made requirements for obtaining such permits nearly impossible for most new churches.
The Christian Post then reported that even when new churches with small congregations were able to successfully meet all of the requirements including the 90 signatures of approval from members of the congregation and 60 from households of different religions, officials seemingly delay the issuing of the permits or simply make no response at all.
Pray for our brothers and sisters all around the world who are being persecuted by those of other faiths, especially in Indonesia.