🤢I have never believed in that any religion will motivate killings. I always believed that it is the wrong interpretation done to claim superiority over others. It was merely the matter of controlling. But news like this make me wonder if some of us so brainless that do things blindly following the misreadings🤢. Not pointing to any religion in particular but is it not high time to punish severly the person who claims they did it for religion. Thsi way they really bring shame to all of us.
There should be only one religion....Humanity and that is all
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20726085- 2703,00.html
Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta correspondent
The note read: "Wanted: 100 more Christian heads, teenaged or adult, male or female; blood shall be answered with blood, soul with soul, head with head."
Javanese trader Hasanuddin appeared in Jakarta Central Court yesterday charged with planning and directing the murders in October last year. He faces a death sentence if found guilty under anti-terrorism legislation.
Hasanuddin allegedly returned from a visit to members of Philippines Islamist group the Moro Islamic Liberation Front with tales of how that organisation regularly staged bombings to coincide with Lebaran, the festival that ends the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. He later spoke with a preacher in Poso, Central Sulawesi, about whether such a plan could work in Indonesia, but expressed doubt about whether it was appropriate.
However, after further discussion with friends, he decided that beheading Christians could qualify as an act of Muslim charity.
Conscripting several accomplices at a local pesantren, or Islamic school, he directed one of them, Lilik Purnomo, to seek out "the head of a Christian", prosecutors alleged.
"It would be a great Lebaran trophy if we got a Christian. Go search for the best place for us to find one," Hasanuddin allegedly ordered his companion.
Lilik returned to say he had found an "excellent" target - a group of schoolgirls who travelled to and from class by foot in the Central Sulawesi village of Gebong Rejo. The village is in the district of Poso, where hundreds of people have died in sectarian violence in recent years.
Many observers worry that Central Sulawesi has become the latest battleground in a deadly jihad.
Three Christian men were executed there last month for their role in a massacre of Muslims in 2000 and there have been a series of deadly attacks in the province in recent months.
Prosecutors yesterday detailed how Hasanuddin, Lilik and co-accused Irwanto Irano planned the schoolgirl beheadings with six other men. They prepared six machetes and black plastic bags for carrying off the severed heads and spent several days surveying the area where the students regularly passed by.
The operation was called off on one occasion, when a woman spotted the attackers hiding by the roadside, waiting for their victims. On the night before the attack, Lilik told Hasanuddin: "I hope you are ready to receive your Lebaran gift."
The attack was launched the following morning, but only four of the six targeted girls appeared.
Lilik, directing the attack from a nearby hill, told his accomplices to act quickly so that the remaining two girls could still be killed should they appear behind their friends.
The attackers cleanly beheaded three of the students but a fourth, Noviana Malewa, escaped after a struggle and ran away screaming. Her attackers gave chase but were unable to catch her.
The bodies, dressed in school uniform, were left by the roadside near the execution site, but the heads were carried in a backpack to Hasanuddin.The trial of his two co-accomplices was adjourned until Wednesday, when Hasanuddin will also reappear.
[QUOTE=abhijit shukla] The following picture is what I got from the site: http://www.claybennett.com
I mean to show it out of respect for those who are facing the right direction while praying to their God. Even then if it offends anyone, let me know and I will remove it.
This picture says it all. These people just pray to a different God. As Screwtape letters indicate - to their 'Father below'.
We just have the challange of separating the ones facing the wrong direction from the majority that faces the right one...and that 'we' includes the ones in the picture...the majority that needs to be recognized apart from the minority. It is a collective effort for all those who are in favour of life, of humanity and of peace."
Well i see ur point about this cartoon. It is true these extremist who kill and jsustify their actions using religion are just interperting religion in their own way and jsut creating a whole different religion. Islam really does teach peace and tolerance and does NOT justify killings of innocent ppl. however the word Jihad or many parts of islam has been misintepreted by extremists. they have set a bad reperesentation of muslms.
i think majority of the ppl who dislike extremists should do something but fear of getting killed or whatever but if we lived iin fear like that then there would have been no US or India or Pakistan and so on...
I agree....religion is becoming an excuse to "justify" one's wrong deeds....