Hrishita Deo
Kalimati, Kathmandu
11:44pm; 8th Feb, 2011
Indonesian Muslims burned churches and battled police today as the world’s most crowded Muslim-majority nation struggled with a wave of religious violence.
Two days after a Muslim assassinate gang killed three members of a minority Islamic sect, crowds of furious Muslims set two churches alight and ransacked a third in the Central Java town of Temanggung, police said. They were demanding the death penalty for Antonius Bawengan, 58, a Christian man who was sentenced to maximum five years in jail for distributing leaflets insulting Islam.
“Today was the climax of the trial... The mob shouted that he should receive the death sentence or be handed over to the public,” Central Java province police spokesman Djihartono told AFP. The protesters chanted “kill, kill” outside the court and “burn, burn” as they set upon the churches, in an area of Java where Muslims and Christians normally mix peacefully.
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