Oddly enough, the terrorist plotters weren’t white supremacists.
“Police arrest 11 suspected militants in Indonesia’s Papua,” by Niniek Karmini, Associated Press, May 31, 2021:
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesian police said Monday they have arrested 11 suspected Islamic militants accused of plotting attacks at several Christian churches in easternmost Papua province.
On Friday, the elite counterterrorism squad arrested 10 suspects in several raids in Papua’s Merauke district after receiving information about planned attacks in the province, a predominantly Christian region in Muslim-majority Indonesia, Merauke police chief Untung Sangaji said.
The arrests led police to another suspect who was detained Sunday, and led them to seize items from various locations including chemicals for explosives, modified air guns able to fire real bullets, jihadist books and documents on planned attacks, he said.
Sangaji said those arrested are suspected of being members of Jemaah Anshorut Daulah, which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and carried out a series of suicide bombings in Indonesia.
“They allegedly planned to attack churches in several places in Merauke,” Sangaji said. He declined to provide more details, saying that the investigation is still underway.
He said some of the suspects are believed to have links to a suicide attack outside a Roman Catholic cathedral during Palm Sunday Mass in March in Makassar, the capital of South Sulawesi, that wounded 20 people.
Arrests of suspected Islamic militants are rare in Papua, a former Dutch colony in the western part of New Guinea that is ethnically and culturally distinct from much of Indonesia. It was incorporated into Indonesia in 1969 after a U.N.-sponsored ballot that was seen as a sham by many….
New threats have emerged in recent years from Islamic State group-inspired radicals who have targeted security forces and local “infidels” instead of Westerners.
Elizabeth Lawson says
Where the %$@$&&##$&&&,,,,!!!#### is the UNHR in all of this slaughter? Not a day passes that we don’t read of CHRISTIAN citizens, men, women, children, babes in arms, priests and congregants, being murdered, AND CHRISTiAN churches being desecrated and burned to the ground, yet, like the “ wide mouthed frog” the UN is SILENT! Oh, just a second. We have a big scandal in Canada presently. Our indigenous people have uncovered evidence of 214 children’s burials in BC, Canada. By all accounts, those responsible for these deaths were Residential School officials. The deaths of these poor children occurred between 1895 to roughly 1960 at a time when TB was endemic in native reserves. The UN is jumping all over this – they can nail Canada for this tragedy even BEFORE the details are known, and are calling for an immediate inquiry. All decent people want an inquiry into this appalling matter….BUT…the absence of defence for LIVING potential victims in Christian communities across Moslem lands, and the clear bias of UN members in the matter of Christian slaughter is a disgrace – can it be that many – a few – the majority of delegates in the UN are either Moslem themselves, or Moslem sympathizers?
gravenimage says
Elizabeth, the UN is more intent on condemning Israel again for defending herself from Jihad terror. The sad fact is that Muslim and other unfree nations dominate the UN.
Infidel says
If Indonesia is serious about combating jihad, and doesn’t care about its islamic status, they can take a page out of how Sri Lanka deals w/ the same issue
gravenimage says
Indonesia: 11 Muslims arrested for plotting jihad massacres at several Christian churches
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The only surprising thing is that Indonesian authorities arrested them. Glad they were caught.
OLD GUY says
The UN is a bought and paid for political machine of the left and the anti America countries from around the world. Whats real sad is that our American tax dollars pay the bill for this anti America organization. But hell we send billions of dollars to enemies of America every year, what a waste of our tax money. Maybe if we stop funding these groups and countries they wouldn’t have all the guns and bullets and would be less of a threat to us and the rest of the world.
Walter Sieruk says
As in the days of Nehemiah when he and his men were busy in the reconstruction of the walls around Jerusalem and the Arab became furious and indigent at this at this grand project of the rebuilding of the walls. Neh 4:1 and they thus despised the Jews , Neh. 4:4 ,and schemed terrorist attacks against them.
So the Jewish men set up watch for such attacks, Neh 4:8, therefore ,on this watch they set up guards to be ready for those terrorists attacks , Neh 4;16.
Likewise, in this twenty –first century in areas of the world, as the nation of Indonesia, Christians need to be “on watch and stand firm” First Corinthians 16:13.,as to be on guard from jihad-minded Muslim terrorist attacks against Christians .
For Christians together compose the symbolic body of Christ, Ephesians 1:13. 5:30.
Furthermore, it should be made known that the Muslim terrorists who engage in the persecution of Christians will not get away from the punishment of God for their wicked actions. As seen in Romans 14: 12. First Corinthians 3: 16, 17. Galatians 6:7.
sidney penny says
There is a big police and security presence with machine guns at Borobudur Temple against terrorists.
Terrorists have long planned to destroy Borobudur
It is the largest Buddhist temple in the world,
It is one of the great archaeological sites of Southeast Asia..
Borobudur is Indonesia’s single most visited tourist attraction.
Oddly enough, the terrorist plotters who want to destroy aren’t white supremacists.
gravenimage says
+1