Indonesia is not only popular for its scenic beauty, but lately it has also become notorious for arresting more and more people for “blasphemy”, Aleteia reported on Friday March 11. Muhammad Kacé and Jozeph Paul Zhang, two Christian Youtubers from Indonesia, have been arrested for this reason in recent months for advocating the Christian religion. The Indonesian internet is currently the scene of a war between Muslim and Christian preachers, Medium tells us. This conflict, which is not limited to mere exchanges of words, has already sentenced 72 Christians to long prison terms.
Although there has always been an anti-blasphemy law in Indonesia, it has been observed that convictions in this area have been increasing, which is evidence of the return of blasphemy as a social indicator that influences people’s way of thinking, analyses Aleteia. Indonesia, the fourth most populous country in the world with 264 million people, is the largest Muslim country in the world – ahead of India and Pakistan. And although the country is historically known for practising a moderate Islam, as the religion was introduced through trade relations rather than weapons, a radicalisation of Islam has been observed for a number of years. This was made possible by the arrival of successful preachers who introduced the rhetoric of Wahhabi Islam imported from the Gulf states.
On Sunday afternoon, a man (35) and a trans woman (21) accompanying him were attacked in the Mitte district in Berlin.
Shortly after 8 p.m., they were confronted by three young men at the intersection of Dircksenstraße and Karl-Liebknecht-Straße. One of them allegedly insulted them in Arabic in a homophobic manner, according to police on Monday.
A short time later, the suspect allegedly lashed out, punched the 35-year-old in the face and injured his lip.
The attacker then fled. The injured man was treated as an outpatient.
This crime will make you angry and stunned: A Ukrainian woman was allegedly raped in a refugee accommodation in Düsseldorf!
According to information from the newspaper BILD, the crime occurred on March 6: An 18-year-old Ukrainian woman was the victim of a sexual assault on the hotel ship “Oscar Wilde”, which is currently also used as accommodation for refugees from Ukraine. She was allegedly abused by two Iraqi and Nigerian men (37 and 26 years old) one after the other.
Both of them would also have Ukrainian nationality. The police initiated an investigation on “suspicion of rape”. Among other things, it has to be clarified how the two alleged perpetrators came into possession of the Ukrainian passport.
The politicians are shocked and outraged! Andrea Lindholz (51), parliamentary group leader of the CDU/CSU, to BILD: “The police authorities must specifically ensure the protection of Ukrainian women by checking the flats. The Düsseldorf case forces us to act immediately.
The head of the federal police union, Heiko Teggatz, told BILD: “Politicians should now do everything to ensure that such terrible cases of rape as on the hotel ship in Düsseldorf do not accumulate. Severe and swift punishment followed by deportation is the only language these perpetrators understand.”
According to information from BILD, police officers in the border area are increasingly encountering refugees who do not come directly from Ukraine, but from Africa, for example.Bild.de
Today, Monday March 14, the prefect of the Gironde department, Fabienne Buccio, ordered the closure of the Al-Farouk mosque in Pessac, near Bordeaux, for six months, reports the newspaper Le Figaro. The association “Rassemblement des musulmans de Pessac” is accused of promoting “a radical Islam” and spreading “a Salafist ideology”.
According to a lawsuit that has been ongoing since February 24, the prefect of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Gironde regions, Fabienne Buccio, considers that the mosque run by the association “Rassemblement des musulmans de Pessac” “promotes a radical Islam and transmits a Salafist ideology” by ” sermons and statements” that have “regularly called for flouting the laws of the Republic, justifying attacks and glorifying martyrdom”.
This mosque is not only a place where such content is disseminated, but also a place where hateful publications about Israel are disseminated (…), where there are calls to secede from society and where Muslims who do not share their radical view of Islam are condemned,” the prefecture said in its statement. The mosque “regularly hosts imams known for their closeness to radical Islam and their Salafist ideology, and supports terrorist organisations or entities or individuals that promote radical Islam,” the prefecture detailed.
By such actions, the Al-Farouk mosque incites “violence, hatred or discrimination” and promotes “the committing of acts of terrorism”. The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, announced numerous closures and administrative closures in recent months to combat “Islamist separatism”.
‘French state are assassins’: Massive demonstration in support of Yvan Colonna, Bastia on Sunday. Twitter
After the attempted assassination of Yvan Colonna by a jihadist in prison, the island has erupted. Corsicans believe President Macron ordered the attack.
Regional daily La Provence last week reported that a 35-year-old Franco-Cameroonian, a former jihadist who had been convicted of terrorism, and captured by the Americans in 2012 had been held in the same prison as Colonna. He was responsible for the attack on Colonna.
The jihadist had been transferred to the same institution a year earlier because he had become radicalized in prison in Bordeaux. After two years of detention in a Kabul prison for having fought with the Taliban, he was handed over to France in 2014 and tried in 2016. He was sentenced to 9 years in prison in view of his association with criminals preparing a terrorist act.
Gratuitous crime or special operation?
The Corsican nationalist Gilles Simeoni, the lawyer for Yvan Colonna, does not believe the attempted murder was a coincidence.
“Obviously, this gentleman was armed, he was wound up like a cuckoo clock. Who armed him, who had wound him up, who allowed him to move freely in prison, who allowed him to enter the room freely, who allowed him to strike for several long minutes to almost kill Yvan Colonna without anyone intervening, neither the supervisors who were present a few meters away nor those who were supposed to be behind the CCTV cameras? How did all this happen? I do not have much confidence in the judicial investigation or in the administrative investigation that will be carried out…”
Fires, demonstrations, blockades, Corsica has been in turmoil since the assassination attempt. Corsican solidarity is not an empty word. The island is waking up, and President Macron had not expected that. As in Guadeloupe, the government has dispatched gendarmes and repressive equipment instead of negotiating. But the ferry which had docked in the port of Ajaccio to unload the gendermes and equipment was blocked and could not release its cargo.
In Corte, Calvi and especially last night in Bastia, the forces of metropolitan order had no ammunition and had to retreat. Earlier, a Crédit Agricole bank was set ablaze.
France 3 reported that Yvan’s wife Christine Colonna wrote a letter which was distributed at a meeting of all the nationalist organizations being held in Corte on Wednesday, at the call of the student unions.
According to Le Figaro “the State is reluctant to allow the return of members of the Érignac commando to their island”. Colonna is regarded as a member of the Érignac commando which had allegedly been involved in the murder of Prefect Érignac.native advertising
Macron’s terrible timing
The timing could not be worse for public authorities which, since 2018, have refused to grant members of the Érignac commando, Alain Ferrandi, Pierre Alessandri and Yvan Colonna, the lifting of their status of particularly guarded detainees (DPS) even though their security period had lapsed.
“Twice, in January 2020 and in October 2021, the Paris Court of Appeal opposed the adjustment of the sentence of my client Pierre Alessandri. And three times, in 2018, 2019 and 2020, the Ministry of Justice and then the Prime Minister refused him the lifting of the DPS status which would have allowed him to be transferred to the Borgo prison in Corsica”, explained lawyer Éric Barbolosi.
It is all the more surprising since the prison commission has always been in favor of it. As for Yvan Colonna, his security period ended in July 2021.
According to the daily, Emmanuel Macron had promised the widow of the prefect that there would never be leniency for the Érignac commando, that is to say the transfer of these men to the prison of Borgo, Corsica. The symbolic value of the prefect, an envoy of the the powers in Paris to Corsica, explains the intransigence of the State.
Last night, at least 67 were injured including 44 CRS and gendarmes during riots in Bastia. The police unions are in unison in denouncing the violence during the evening and called for reinforcements to be sent to Corsica. On March 4, protesters blocked a ferry and prevented reinforcements from landing on the island.
According to Parisian daily Le Canard enchainé, Emmanuel Macron had negotiated with the Corsican executive for support in the presidential election, “at least in the second round”, in exchange for the “full autonomy” of the island. But the assassination attempt of Yvan Colonna has buried the agreement and since then Corsica has exploded.
