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| Southeast Asia |
| Heavy security for Indonesian churches |
| 2006-12-25 |
| Tens of thousands of policemen have been deployed at churches across Indonesia after warnings by Western nations that Islamic militants may be plotting Christmas bombings. Indonesian officials downplayed the bulletins, which have become something of a tradition themselves since Christmas Eve bombings at churches across the world's most populous Muslim nation in 2000 killed 19 people. The US Embassy in Jakarta and Australia warned that the threat of an attack over the holiday season was "serious" and "credible" and that foreigners could be targeted. They did not say on what the alert was based on. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 It's not oblique, Zenster. It speaks to the effectiveness of the terror weapon that Islam has always used against the dhimmis in its midst that the mere rumour of action is induces very realistic fear in the target population. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-12-25 12:09 |
| #1 This may sound politically correct but I'll say it anyway; That peaceful people who are supposedly free to practice the religion of their choice should have to undergo greatest fear during their own high holy days is an oblique form of terrorism all by itself. I'm sick and tired of this omnipresent pall that Muslim sensitivities casts over ordinary daily life. I know it's nothing compared to what it might be, but it's quite enough already. I'll not rant too much on this particular Eve, but let me put it this way: Islamist treatment of Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity was a Kristalnacht for Muslim terrorism. Islam's Jewish solution was finally stated in Christian terms as well. Their strike at the very heart of Christianity's Nativity itself was a calculated blow that has set the tone for all which follows. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-12-25 03:50 |