"JAKARTA, Indonesia — Thousands of conservative Muslims took to the streets of the Indonesian capital on Friday to call for the jailing of its minority Christian governor, who is on trial on charges of blaspheming the Quran.
At least several thousand white-robed protesters marched after Friday prayers at Istiqlal Mosque in central Jakarta until reaching the nearby Supreme Court building.
Some of the protesters held flags, banners and placards that said “Justice must be upheld” and “Ahok, the blasphemer of Islam, must be jailed.”
“We are here because we are disappointed with prosecutors who were blind and deaf to the aspirations of Muslims,” said Bahruddin Rabbani, an Islamic boarding school teacher from Banten, a neighboring province of Jakarta.
Hard-line Islamic groups have attracted hundreds of thousands to anti-Ahok protests in Jakarta, shaking the government of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and undermining Indonesia’s reputation for practicing a moderate form of Islam..."
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If this situation of a minority Christian governor on trial for blaspheming the quran, does not alert you or make you concerned, just because you live in another country across the sea from it, I am not sure what will. This story is a clear indication of what I have been saying. That Muslims do not like to be ruled by non-Muslims, or have their religion challenged, condemned or confronted.
ˌaspəˈrāSH(ə)n/
noun
- 1.a hope or ambition of achieving something.
- - What is it Muslims are ambitious of achieving? The Caliphate? World domination?
Indonesia also has a larger Muslim population than any other country in the world, with approximately 202.9 million identifying themselves as Muslim (87.2% of Indonesia's total population in 2011).
