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Indonesian sect members seek asylum in Australia
2008-05-16
Six members of an Islamic sect in Indonesia are seeking asylum in Australia after being threatened with a government ban in their country. The members of the Ahmadiya sect say they can no longer live safely in Indonesia.
That's very likely a true statement.
In July of 2005 Indonesia's highest council of Muslim scholars issued a fatwa declaring the Ahmadiya sect of Islam heretical because they said the sect's beliefs challenged Mohammad's status as the last prophet. Since then attacks against Ahmadis have increased.

In 2006 their mosques and houses were burnt down on the island of Lombok and now six members of the group displaced by that violence have approached the Australian Consulate in Bali seeking asylum in Australia and were told to direct their enquires to the Australian Embassy in Jakarta.

An influential Indonesian intergovernmental agency recently recommended the Ahmadiya sect be formally banned by the Indonesian Government.
Posted by:Oztralian

#3  Let Turkey take them.

"Secular" turkey already has pretty much cleansed itself of all non-muslim minorities during the course of the century, even though they were historically important (and older than the muslims), and even its sufi brands of islam have been smothered in favor of sunnism I'm not sure they would be welcome and safe there.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2008-05-16 12:48  

#2  Arm 'em & let 'em fight back.
Posted by: Glenmore   2008-05-16 07:54  

#1  There are millions of Ahmadiya; the West can't protect every Muslim in the world. Let Turkey take them.
Posted by: McZoid   2008-05-16 04:20  

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