Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Indonesia: Muslim Mob Burns Pastor's Home, 2 Churches

From Watcher:
Another one of those "Islamic tolerance" cases in a "moderate Muslim country".
Washington -- International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that a Muslim mob set fire to a pastor's house and two Christian churches in North Sumatra, Indonesia, last Friday.

The arson followed a disagreement between Muslims and Christians over the location of buildings Christians would meet in for worship. The buildings were in the center of a predominantly Muslim community and were not registered as churches. When worship continued unabated, a mob took matters into its own hands.

According to The Jakarta Post, on Friday, January 29, a crowd of about 1000 Muslims surrounded the HKBP and GPdI church buildings and lit them on fire, also torching the pastor's house nearby.
Note that it just isn't too hard to assemble a crowd of 1000 Muslims to torch homes and churches.

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