American Daily, 12/15/03
Muslims Kill Christians At Prayer: Indonesia
By Grant Swank
The Koran demands that non-Muslims either be slaves to Muslims or killed outright.
There are those Muslims who don't know their Koran; therefore, they vehemently deny
this Islamic teaching. Nevertheless, those who read the Koran from cover to cover
know that the murder doctrine is very much in the record. It is a sure thing that
Islamic murderers know that that is the dictate; so they carry it out every day.
Therefore, in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, Islamic killers once again slew Christians
while in a prayer meeting. The Muslims barged into the church, shot at random, and
left the slain lying in blood on the church floor. Family members and fellow believers
were left stunned.
International Christian Concern (www.persecution.org) reports the fine line detail.
Suffering Christians is daily occurrence in Poso. Killers may show up at any time of
day or night. They breathe to murder. The Christians breathe to pray, interceding for
their government, as they were doing when slain recently.
"The attacks are growing in frequency and intensity. A recent example is a Nov. 30th
attack on a congregation in Tabamawo (about 70 miles east of Poso). Two men rode
up to the church on motorcycles. Came to the church door and assassinated two
men and wounded three others," ICC reports.
"The Christians had been in a prayer service. They were praying for the Indonesian
Government and for peace in the land when the terrorists broke in and started firing.
Two men, Ruslam (32) and Arifin (28) died on the spot. They were shot several times
each, in front of the congregation and their families, leaving their young wives and
children in shock. Another man, Moda (37) was shot in the face and back is fighting
for his life. Two others were wounded and survived, Sandra Tengker, the pastor's wife
and Yulmin (23).
"Another attack occurred just fifteen minutes earlier at 7.15 pm, 110 miles away to
the west, on the other side of Poso, reports Ferdinand Saerang of Poso Watch. 'Kilo
Trans was attacked during evening prayers at the local church by 20 well-armed and
well-trained gunmen shooting wildly into the houses,' he said. Two men died, two
others were wounded. There would have been more victims but the majority of the
village was in Church praying."
Yet there are those who still tout Islam as a peace religion; it is not. There are those
Muslims who are ignorant of their own religion's basic tenets. There are those
politically correct Americans who refuse to face the truth regarding the Muslim
teachings.
Nevertheless, the facts are in the killings.
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J. Grant Swank, Jr., Pastor, New Hope Church, Windham ME / Author of 5 books and
over 2000 articles in Protestant and Catholic publications. Weekly Lakes Religion
columnist for PORTLAND (Maine) PORTLAND HERALD. Copyright © 2002-2003
Grant Swank.
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