“Moderate” Indonesia: Jakarta’s Christian governor Ahok found guilty in Islam blasphemy trial

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 “I was a little Jakarta street kid,” he said in a wide-ranging interview in with NY Times.

Jakarta — the city where President Obama grew up. Is it any wonder that Obama wanted us dead in Garland, Texas?  We were guilty of the same crime as this persecuted Christian governor — “blasphemy’ under Islam.

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Indonesia, the country held up as the shining example of a moderate, modern Muslim country. And, by jove, it is.

It’s like the President of Turkey (who just today called on all Muslim to flood the holy city of Jerusalem), who said to then President Obama, “There is no moderate Islam. There is no extreme Islam. Islam is Islam.”

Jakarta’s Christian governor Ahok found guilty in Islam blasphemy trial

An Indonesian court has sentenced the minority Christian governor of Jakarta to two years in prison for blaspheming the Koran at a trial that undermined the country’s reputation for practicing a moderate form of Islam.

In a tense trial that was widely seen as a test of religious tolerance in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, also known as Ahok, was “found to have legitimately and convincingly conducted a criminal act of blasphemy, and because of that we have imposed two years of imprisonment”, head judge Dwiarso Budi Santiarto told the court.

Ahok was charged with blasphemy after he said clerics had used a Koranic verse to mislead voters by telling them that Muslims were not allowed to vote for a Christian.

He has denied wrongdoing, and said he was not criticising the Koran, but rather the clerics’ interpretation of the verse.

The sentence was harsher than expected and will come as a shock to many of his supporters. TV news coverage of the scene outside the court showed some supporters weeping.

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Phil McDonald
Phil McDonald
6 years ago

Disgusting. Critique of the book of hate or PBUH lands you in prison or worse in Indonesia. Jihadists are out of control.

Sharon ODonnell
Sharon ODonnell
6 years ago
Reply to  Phil McDonald

+ TRUTH IS NOW BLASPHEMY+
+CHRISTIANS ON THE GENOCIDE WATCH LIST +
The Ant- Christ has These People Enslaved
in violence and darkness .comment image
How Great Their JUDGMENT …
SAY YOUR PRAYERS CHRISTIANS …+
We will STAND ON OUR ROCK OF TRUTH+
Let GOD ARISE +

Sharon ODonnell
Sharon ODonnell
6 years ago

Repel the Invaders..+
We Stand With Christians+comment image

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Michael Gerardi
Michael Gerardi
6 years ago

Turk wanna-be Sultan Er-DOG-an has told the world: “Islam is Islam”. Islam is the ENEMY OF CIVILIZATION. It must be eradicated, once and for all, for the good of humanity.

Semur Jengkol
Semur Jengkol
6 years ago

how do you define “good” ??

Semur Jengkol
Semur Jengkol
6 years ago
Reply to  Semur Jengkol

if islam is about forcing its followers …slaughtering …and other inhumane things … like you have claimed …..why on earth muslim migrants did not ditch their “inhumane” religion once they arrive in liberal countries ….instead …they want to spread their religion …????

if christianity is about salvation …loves …etc etc …why on earth christianity has been ditched in western world ??? …..why on earth churches are deserted ….?? …why on earth atheism is wide spread ??

Duchess of Pork
Duchess of Pork
6 years ago
Reply to  Semur Jengkol

“why on earth muslim migrants did not ditch their “inhumane” religion once they arrive in liberal countries”? Well Semur perhaps they want to live free from the punishment that apostasy from Islam requires..

Michael Gerardi
Michael Gerardi
6 years ago
Reply to  Semur Jengkol

A “good” place to start is the promotion of individual liberty, in particular free speech, freedom of religion, and a constitutional republican form of government to secure the foregoing (NOT a pure democracy, which typically degenerates into mob rule).

Islam opposes every one of the foregoing points.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

Destroy islam, even to the memory of it ever existing.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
6 years ago

Moderate Islam is still radical by our standards…there is terrorism in Indonesia as well, just less widely covered in the Western media.

Semur Jengkol
Semur Jengkol
6 years ago
Reply to  R. Arandas

it does’t matter …..it’s your own standard …. Should others follow you ??

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  Semur Jengkol

Semen doesn’t like the kafir al najjis criticising his islamic pig’s anus state.

Duchess of Pork
Duchess of Pork
6 years ago
Reply to  Semur Jengkol

Is Indonesia not abiding by Allah’s standards then?. Will you protest to the new Governor?

EB
EB
6 years ago

I struggle to see how you can “blaspheme” if you don’t believe in the first place. I can understand it being considered disrespectful of other people’s faith but that is it. The only other possible is sacrilege and again no destruction here and no belief to start with. Truth is they show no regard for his faith either, but then Islam probably on the whole never will.

Semur Jengkol
Semur Jengkol
6 years ago
Reply to  EB

If you don’t believe in something … what does it imply to others ??

Does it imply that everything you don’t believe is automatically untrue ??? …. who are you ??

EB
EB
6 years ago
Reply to  Semur Jengkol

If you are familiar with Pastafarianism and the Flying Spaghetti Monster, you will also be aware the “religion” has thousands of followers. You would of course be reasonable in criticising and condemning such as both illogical and a nonsense, or would you? Aren’t you then demonstrating the same version of “Blasphemy” (or disrespect more correctly) of another “religion” as a non believer? See, – we have a conundrum. What makes one set of beliefs inviolable and another set fair game? Your judgement? Mine? The only reasonable solution is that we as individuals are ALL free to choose and assess for ourselves, and that everything is open to question. if you choose to fix on particular beliefs that is good for you, as such if your beliefs are solid they will withstand scrutiny and the doubt of others, at least to you.

Semur Jengkol
Semur Jengkol
6 years ago
Reply to  EB

Suppose that once upon a time people in a society divided into two opposite camps …those who believe in Flying Spaghetti Monster religion and those who oppose it …

The questions was: can those two opposite camps are true at the same time ????

….of course only one camp is true …but which one ?????

Then as the confusions went on … the prominent of the society could not wait to decide that they want to form a state with a CONSTITUTION that ALLOWS all citizen to choose to follow FSM religion or to oppose it ….and everybody is free to blaspheme each other under the principle of “free speech” …

Then after several hundred years later … you know what ???

….the constitution of that society still CAN’T decide which one is true … the FSM religion OR the anti-FSM religion …. and people are still free to blaspheme each others …

In this case …this kind of constitution has FAILED to promote truth and to give direction to it’s people …

That kind of constitution is an EMPTY constitution … It’s doesn’t promote social cohesion … It won’t survive from “invasion” of other religion fro other place …..etc etc ..

Sound familiar ?????…..hahahahahahahahahahahahaha….

EB
EB
6 years ago
Reply to  Semur Jengkol

Thank you for so clearly stating two things.
1. Blasphemy laws are used to control and coerce i.e. “give direction”. They don’t protect or defend.
2. The intent of Islam is to invade every free country.

It seems the only truth is your truth in your little closed mind.

Semur Jengkol
Semur Jengkol
6 years ago
Reply to  EB

I prefer to call it “strong constitution” versus “weak constitution” …

You can formulate a strong constitution for your society …BUT if it is based on wrong principles then eventually it will crumble by it’s own fallacy …like communist states for instance …

Blasphemy laws is redundant in my view …. If a constitution is based on a truth … then it will survive any ideological challenges … and at the same time it discourages it’s people to behave contra productive like insulting each others …blaspheming … behaving immorally …etc etc ..

Constitution based on principle of “freedom & liberty” is a weak and EMPTY constitution …

“Freedom & liberty” is not final …it’s just a transitional … you still have to find ultimate truth with “freedom & liberty” in your hand ..

Founding fathers of my country is smart enough not to adopt this weak principles …

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  Semur Jengkol

Yeah “freedom&liberty” are “weak principles”, but only in your weak little muslum monkey mind.

EB
EB
6 years ago
Reply to  Semur Jengkol

So Semur, you now suggest :-
1. We need a strong religiously based State (an Islamic State !!).
2. Blasphemy is redundant as everyone must conform to Islam

I presume this is enforced by Laws, and Shariah Law based physical punishments or executions.
Wouldn’t the same accusation be used for offenders? i.e. blasphemy?
Seems to me you haven’t understood what the concept the creation of Pastafarianism as an alt teaches at all.

Thank you once again for illustrating the evil intent of Islam to the free world. Thank you for providing strong proof that Islam will take us all back to the dark ages if it’s evil is allowed..

Duchess of Pork
Duchess of Pork
6 years ago
Reply to  Semur Jengkol

What happens Semur when the “stronger truth” having subsumed the “weaker opponent” then faces the schism behind the united facade of that stronger “truth”? The schism that has divided those that proclaim the “truth” for 1400 years because its autocratic founder was unable, despite his nine devoted wives, to produce a surviving heir. `

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  Semur Jengkol

Semen crawls out of his mosque’s dumpster to defend his islamic pig’s anus state.
What about E. Timor muslum monkey? Anything to say about that?

Semur Jengkol
Semur Jengkol
6 years ago
Reply to  IzlamIsTyranny

You are so civilized …

Your judeo-christian spirit of filthy words is amazing …

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  Semur Jengkol

The muslum predilection for bloody violence and genocide trumps filthy words every time muslum monkey.
Here’s to the Burmese Buddhists exterminating or expelling every last one of you muslum vermin from Burma!

CHARLES S
CHARLES S
6 years ago

There are NO moderate Muslims and there is NO moderate Islam—–all these savages are mentally ill……..there is no hope for this middle east race. The “inbreeding”, has permanently damaged their brain. They are criminally insane…..worse race ever created.

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