Mob Attack on Ahmadiyah

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Mob Attack on Ahmadiyah

An Indonesia court came under a severe attack after it passed a sentence in a case involving a group of people who were accused of having attacked a religious sect.
Human rights activists, Western governments and relatives accused the judges of sending a “chilling message” to the people of Indonesia, as they sentenced a dozen men to six months in prison or less for assaulting the members of the Ahmadiyah Muslim sect.
Ahmadiyah Muslim sect is a religious group that strays from mainstream Islam by the fact that they do not believe that Mohammad is the last prophet of the world.
This teaching of theirs compelled more than 1,000 people to take part in an assault on the home of a local leader of the Ahmadiyah in February in the village of Cikeusik, Banten province, in western Java.
The leader of the group, which appears on a video waving a machete and instigating the people, received only a five months sentence. Eleven others were sentenced to three to five months in prison.
They were found guilty of crimes ranging from illegal possession of weapons to assault and destruction of property.

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Not even one of them was accused of murder, though in the courtroom was present the mother of one of those who were killed by the mob.
The international human rights activists consider that this unfortunate decision sends the message that aggression on the minorities is admitted by the authorities of Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim community in the world.
The trial is considered a test of the legal protection of religious freedoms of the country, and by the looks of it, the country failed the test, which prompted Western governments to demand that justice be served in this case and those responsible receive their rightful sentences.
Most of the Indonesians practice a mild form of Islam but there is a growing group of radicals, which grows in numbers and in influence, given that the government needs their votes in parliament.
The Ahmadiyah community is believed to have hundreds of thousands of people in Indonesia, but the defense of their rights is considered untenable.
The case is so striking that it compelled the American ambassador in Jakarta to express disappointment at the light sentence passed on those who should have been judged for crime.
European Union maintained that there was a severe unbalance between the crimes and the punishment for them.

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