OK, I give up. I hung with Muslims all those years, learned to speak their languages, and put up with a lot of horrible shit from them silently at first and then bitching about it, but now I have absolutely fucking had it. Everyone who uses violence in the name of Islam, a big fat two-fisted FUCK YOU. :mad: Don’t even say the word Islam to me now, I’m totally going to vomit.
Well, the overwhelmingly Muslim Indonesian government does not appear to support the act as they are trying the culprits for murder.
I note that the Bebe also reports that the killings “shocked” Indonesia (no mention of cheering by Muslims in front of outraged Christians). It also is noted that the presumed cause of the attack was a reprisal for a number of Muslims killed at a school by a mob of Christians.
So it appears that we basically have random idiots of different religions perpetrating violent acts so that the appropriate people on each side can get worked up to the point of hating each other as groups rather than hating the idiots.
Almost, but you left out the part where the random idiots of a different religion were perpetrating violent acts in the name of said religion. I think that’s an important part of this.
While that specific action is barbarous, it should be noted that their “retaliation” appears to have been for attacks (including an attack on a Muslim school) that left 70 dead. Had Hasanuddin and his buddies been successful in their actual plan, it would have resulted in six deaths.
bbc.co.uk
But systematic one-sided attacks - bombings and unexplained killings of mostly non-Muslim victims - have continued.
In October 2003, masked gunmen killed 13 Christian villagers in the Morowali and Poso districts - proving that the inter-religious violence in Sulawesi is far from over.
I notice this has now become a joke thread?
Oh well. From the same link I see that even the reporter got into the act with a bit of black humour:
Intolerance isn’t what motivates me. I just felt so exasperated after more than 20 years of close engagement with the Islamic world. But tomndebb’s more cool headed – strike that – calmer and more rational assessment puts things in perspective. I’m the sort of person who covered her eyes with her hands during the gruesome scenes in the movie In the Cut. It contained a ghastly visual pun: after he had given her head, she reciprocated and literally gave him head. I’ll stop here, I’m getting ahead of myself.