Indonesia: Urged on over mosque loudspeakers, Muslims go on rampage against students of Christian theological school to “drive out the unwanted neighbor”
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“Key among motives for the attack, according to a member of the village assembly, was that area Muslims felt ‘disturbed’ by the presence of the Christian college.”
In an update on this story, it becomes all the more apparent that many locals already had their minds made up, and only needed an excuse — however ridiculous — to attack. And it wasn’t the first time this school has been targeted.
“Indonesia: Students Demand Safe Return to College,” from Compass Direct News, July 31:
JAKARTA, July 31 (Compass Direct News) – For a second consecutive night some 580 students from the Arastamar Evangelical School of Theology (SETIA) in East Jakarta slept in the lobby of Indonesia’s parliament yesterday following demonstrations against the school that left at least 17 students injured.
Urged on by announcements from a mosque loudspeaker to “drive out the unwanted neighbor,” hundreds of protestors shouting “Allahu-Akbar [Allah is greater]” and brandishing machetes, sharpened bamboo and acid continued to attack 1,400 students and school staff members even as they were evacuated over the weekend (July 26-27).
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