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Muslims in Indonesia started their New Year celebrations early and with a bang by detonating a nail bomb in a busy Christian market in Central Sulawesi. Six people are reported killed and 43 injured.
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PALU, Central Sulawesi (JP): At least six people were killed when a bomb exploded outside a house that was selling pork meat to Christians on Saturday morning.Police said 43 others were injured by the blast that occured in Mahesa in the southern part of the town.Many of the victims were lining up to buy pork from the adjacent kiosk, according to witnesses.”This is a deliberate act to disrupt the New Year celebrations,” Brig. Gen. Oegroseno, Central Sulawesi Police Chief, said at the blast scene. (Full Story)
 The Jakarta Post graciously tells us that Cental Sulawesi became the “the center of bloody conflicts between Christians and Muslims in recent yearsâ€.
Well I am sure the Muslims must’ve been offended as they never start their ritualistic murders without a provocation.
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And just how many Christian suicide bombings have their been?
Oh boy do those Muslims know how to party.
Comment by Skylark — December 31, 2005 @ 11:14 pm
Skylark,
Isn’t it annoying the way the paper portraits the conflict?
It’s as if the Christians really actively participated in igniting it.
Comment by Felis — January 1, 2006 @ 10:02 am
Good call felis. I also notice the same attitude. You get the feeling there is a “conflict” involving two parties, engaged in tit-for-tat retaliations. In fact, it’s a party of one.
Comment by Gravelrash — January 1, 2006 @ 10:10 am
Nothing gets a New Year’s party going better than a radical ’slamic nail bomb with nails, ball bearings, glass chards, blood and body parts with the smell of cordite in the air?
The more kinder, gentler religions of the World along with secular entities have got to learn lessons from the islamofascists and get their shiite together!
Comment by SA — January 1, 2006 @ 11:06 am
Yeah the Jakarta Post puts something like that at the bottom of every new Muslim atrocity story. Actually they are a bit better these days, a few years ago when there was a lot of fighting in Maluku/Ambon they were really mealy-mouthed, they would never tell you who was killing who, wouldn’t even mention the words “Muslim” or “Christian”.
As for the bombing in Palu I’m putting up updates to the story as they come, at Indonesia News, my blog.
Keep up the good work.
Comment by patung — January 3, 2006 @ 4:47 am
Patung,
Thank you so much for dropping in.
I’ve already visited your site and I will link our blog to yours immediately.
Comment by Felis — January 3, 2006 @ 8:09 am