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Hardline Muslims In Indonesia Hold Another Rally Against Christian Church

December 1, 2011 | Asia
December 1, 2011
AsiaIndonesia

11/30/2011 Indonesia (Jakarta Globe)  – Islamic hardliners rallied in front of the Bogor City administration on Wednesday in support of the mayor’s internationally condemned decision to revoke a building permit for the GKI Yasmin church.

Around 100 people were involved in the march, a local journalist said.
Al Khaththath said Bogor Mayor Diani Budiarto’s decision to revoke the church’s permit was his “discretion as a mayor in accordance with the law.”
The city has been enforcing a blockade of the GKI Yasmin church despite rulings from the Supreme Court and the Ombudsman that worshippers be allowed to use the church house.
In mid-October, the Ombudsman commission sent a letter to the president and Supreme Court reporting Diani’s continued defiance of legal orders to unseal the embattled church. The same letter was also sent to the House of Representatives.
A video circulating on Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia’s Web site, meanwhile, showed the group’s leaders telling the public that the church did not have a building permit, and that christianization would soon follow if they let the church be built in the area.

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