Suicide Bomber Attacks Protestant Church in Indonesia, 20 Wounded
- Posted on September 25, 2011 at 8:10am by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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Indonesian police officer stands guard near an armored vehicle outside a church after an explosion in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011. A suicide bomber attacked the church packed with hundreds of worshippers Sunday, killing himself and wounding at least 20 other people, police and hospital officials said. (AP Photo)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (The Blaze/AP) — A suicide bomber attacked an Indonesian church packed with hundreds of Protestant worshippers Sunday, killing himself and wounding at least 20 other people, police and hospital officials said.
The blast in Solo town in Central Java province occurred just as people were filing out at the end of the service.
“Everyone was screaming,” a witness told Metro TV. “I saw fiery sparks and, near the entrance, a man dead on the ground, his entrails spilling out. People around him were splattered with blood,” said Fani, who goes by only one name, like many Indonesians.
It was not immediately clear who was behind the bombing.
Indonesia, a predominantly Muslim nation of 237 million, has been hit by a string of suicide bombings blamed on the al-Qaida-linked network Jemaah Islamiyah and its offshoots since 2002, when a strike on two Bali nightclubs killed 202 people, most of them foreign tourists.
Subsequent attacks have been far less deadly, however, and the last occurred more than two years ago, owing to a security crackdown that led to the arrests and convictions of hundreds of Islamic militants.
Bombings by solo “jihadis” have continued, however, often targeting Christians, security officers and members of Islamic sects deemed “blasphemous” by hard-liners.
“This is clearly a suicide bombing,” said police spokesman Col. Djihartono, adding that the explosive appeared to have been strapped to the bomber’s stomach.
It was packed with nails, nuts and bolts, found scattered around his body.
Around 20 other people were wounded, one critically, said Bambang Sumarsono, a hospital official.
Witnesses said they believed the perpetrator was not a church member.
“He walked about 4 meters (yards) behind me,” Abraham, who attended the service, told El Shinta radio. “I believe he was disguised as a churchgoer.”
Indonesia is a secular nation with a long history of religious tolerance, but a small extremist fringe has become more vocal – and violent – in recent years.
Critics said President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who relies heavily on Islamic parties in parliament, has remained silent as minorities have been attacked by hard-liners or seen their houses of worship torched or boarded up.
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stealthyk9
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 7:27pmBill Maher, Michael Moore, Tony Bennett, Sean Penn and Morgan Freeman all agree that the United States drove this suicide bomber to commit this act of terrorism!
Report Post »lanurse1
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:38pmYour list of “upstanding” Americans should do the patriotic thing~~renounce their US citizenship and go live in Indonesia~~and they can take Alec Baldwin with them :)
Report Post »georgiavietvet
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 5:56pmlets just keep on being pc with these muslim killers. sooner or later these kinds of atrocities are coming to this country. its going to happen. count on it and be armed and ready…………………………..
Report Post »jm
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 4:24pmGod Bless you DODOT. You have nailed it. The twin sins — jealousy and laziness — are the plague of the world and the seed of modern liberalism and marxism. When are we going to wake up to the fact that persistent poverty is largely the consequence of sin, not the success of harder working people.
It is time for hard working people to ban together and tell the lazy sluggards, “The reason you are poor is because you have not produced anything people want to pay very much for! Get to work, get an education, don’t fornicate or do drugs, remain faithful to your spouses and children, and in a generation or two you will build something to be proud of.”
Despise all jealous sluggards!
Report Post »ThoreauHD
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 12:42pmHey look, another Obama classmate blowing stuff up.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 12:56pmReligion of intolerance, hate, bigotry, lawlessness, merciless, terror filled strikes again against innocent people attending church and worshiping their God and not bothering anyone else. This God will hold them accountable and this is what bothers them, his truths are universal and cut to the quick every heart, some submit to it and others rebel and try to stamp God out. These people are now with the Lord forever. Please God see to those left behind for healing and strength to deal with their world there.
Report Post »Judy72204
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 12:25pmAs Glenn says, the next time you are at a PTA meeting or anywhere seperation of church and state comes up stand up and speak out. If someone stands up before you do stand with them.. We are allowing too many of our freedoms to be taken away because we were taught not to offend someone else’s beliefs and in doing so have allowed them to offend ours..which are fundamental to America staying America..
Report Post »408 CheyTac
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 12:08pmYour “religion of peace” in action again
Report Post »the point
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 11:14amEver here of Christians bombing ANY church?????
Report Post »paulusmaximus
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 2:17pmYes, And I know that both sides came together to stop it!! It’s always murder! It’s always wrong! Justifying the sins of a people by the historic sins of others will not make it right. They are still a murderous people.As are the people you admire and the company you keep, so are you.
Report Post »PingPongPing
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:42amand so it goes, one person goes to hell with 70 virgin demons tormenting him for all eternity, while those he killed will be in heaven….
Report Post »hi
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:40amThe Christians are so brave to attend church there or even live there! It’s amazing.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 11:01amEXACTLY what I was thinking !
“I wear God’s armor. I do not fear what man can do to me.”
Report Post »- Katherine Hepburn, as Eula Goodnight, in Rooster Cogburn
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jakartaman
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:40amHaving lived in Indonesia for 4 yrs in the early 90′s I can tell you that the vast majority of the people are loving kind happy folks. They are what would be called moderate muslims. However, there are radical nuts that can and do perpetrate these hideous acts. Most are just concerned with getting their daily bowl of rice.
Report Post »I am not a lover of Islam nor will I give any excuses – just trying to give you a personal perspective after living there.
AB5r
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:57amThe EXACT same thing could be said about Nazi Germany. It means nothing.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 11:11amThanks for your personal perspective.
I personally only have my own experience to go on.
The Bible tells us a man is known by his deeds.
To date, I only have the evidence of murder and violence in the name of a so-called “religion” of “islam.”
The SILENCE by the so-called ‘moderates,’ speaks VOLUMES.
“Silence gives consent”
It is not the silence of any individual – it is the DEAFENING SILENCE of the entire “islamic” community!
They have, in fact, REACTED to these murderous attacks… with silence.
Report Post »Magyar
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 6:04pm@Jakartaman
Report Post »I lived there for 4 years in the 80s…When Soeharto was voted out, it marked the beginning of the end for Indonesia’s march towards economic growth! Kasihan sekali! The radical Muslims Presidents who followed, destroyed the emerging middle class and decades of progress in the blink of a mata! Saya mengharap semua jalan dgn. baik untuk Indonesia!
CanDan
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:08am100 Christians Killed In Nigeria Violence
http://www.bosnewslife.com/18254-100-christians-killed-in-nigeria-violence
Rape of Christian Women in Punjab ‘Common
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Punjab:-armed-Muslims-rape-a-Christian,-a-common-practice-22725.html
Syrian Sheikh: Tear Christians into Pieces and Feed to Dogs…
http://www.ansamed.info/en/news/ME.XEF87899.html
Saudi Textbooks: Jews are ‘Apes’, Christians are ‘Swine’
Report Post »http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/after-10-years-few-changes-in-saudi-extremist-textbooks/
AB5r
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:55amThe sickening, ignorant, pukes, always bring up, like clockwork, Indonesia and Turkey as the supposed proof that Islam and democracy mix just fine. No, no one can coexist peacefully with Muslims or Islam. The West are FOOLS to be allowing Islam within our borders. Islam out of the West now.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 12:19pmEver since the election of Erdogan in 2003. The hard line Islamicists have had more & more control over Turkey. they refused to let the U.S. use Turkey as a base tom invade Iraq. tjhat would have shortened the Iraq War. It would have spread the Iraqi forces thinner & may have allowed the quicker capture of Saddam. As it was Saddam had time to retreat north & hide. If American forces would also have come from that direction who knows. I expect Christians & gays to be killed in turkey in the future. The patriarch in Turkey was assaulted by his Muslim driver. That is just the leading edge of the storm.
“In 2008, Erdogan commented that to ensure that the Turkish population remains young, every family would need to have at least three children” -wiki
So where are the Ehrlich & company? No the left just wants to guilt people in the U..S to not have children they would never say anything to an Islamicist.
“Population Connection is an organization in the United States, formerly known as Zero Population Growth. They adopted their current name in 2002. Zero Population Growth was originally founded in 1968 by Paul R. Ehrlich, Richard Bowers, and Charles Remington, in the wake of the impact from Ehrlich’s best-selling book, The Population Bomb.” -wiki
Report Post »AB5r
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 12:28pmErdogan said “The mosques are our barracks, the domes are our helmets, the minarets are our swords, and the faithful are our army.” Case closed. But twits in the West think they know better!
Report Post »CanDan
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:52amQuran (8:12) – “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them”
Report Post »Tankertony
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:50amThe Religion of Peace strikes again!
Report Post »CanDan
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:45amWhy does this happen?
It is commanded in the Quran.
Report Post »cassandra
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:35amand they say islam is the religion of peace Yea Right I say it is more like the religion of arrogance, intolerance,hate and violence so far that is all I see and they wonder why we don’t want any more mosques in America ,these people are taught to hate Jews,hate Christians and hate America even those born here ,they are given the GIFT of freedom and that still doesn’t matter they are using our own stupid PC to bring sharia law into our country ,We better get ahold of this before it is too late
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:35amROSE-ELLEN,
was it “invite-your-friends-to-church” Sunday?
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 11:13ammay be attending a family reunion at wall street?
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:14amThere’s more Muslims in Indonesia than any other country in the world,our Marxist in chief president lived there as a child and attended a madrasa and he’s Christian,remember he said so.
Report Post »CanDan
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:47amthe most beautiful sound Obama has ever heard is the sound of the Islamic prayer call.
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:14amThe poor Christians are being persecuted all over the world , and it seems no one is doing any
Report Post »thing about it or even cares, after all it is only Christians. We are the “Infidels”. Lord please
help us. The whole world has gone crazy.
CanDan
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:48amI concur.
Report Post »momsense
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:00amPay attention, America—-this may be your life.
Report Post »burnteye86
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 8:53amthe only thing positive about a suicide bomber is that he gives himself an automatic death penalty
Report Post »piper60
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 8:30amPolitics rears its ugly head. The president of the country needs to cowboy up and protect the religious minorities. Having said that, Satan seems to be especially active over there just now. Sad.
Report Post »Dodot
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 8:58amHaving born and raised there as chinese christian it gives me more appreciation of what America can over. I wish these people read and understand history to better understand how the world is now. The president only can yell because nobody protecting the chinese or christians. Its the way of life. Its a pity..beautiful county and people but islamic ideology rules the country
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 12:20pmIn Eastern Europe & Russia they had pogroms to kill Jews.
The Indonesians have spates of mob violence & they kill ethnic Chinese. Happened during Clinton’s tenure & he… took no notice.
Report Post »Dodot
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 12:50pm@walkabout yes it happened in the 90s. Tehy attacked the chinese because they think the chinese have more money…yes we do…and it is only because we worked our a$$ off. They burned china town and raped mothers and daughters in front of husbands and fathers..then the day after they wonder why they can go abck to work in the factory….duh…moron u burnt it down. My relatives drove to the airports parked the car in front of the airport and just left. Unfortunately what i have experienced is no different what we see now…not as bad yet….but the same exact seed. Jealousy and laziness are the evil in human the same like humantarian and enviromentalist are the cancer of the USA
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