Thread: Hundreds of villagers attack expat's home in Indonesia

Originally Posted by Sdigit

Originally Posted by mr Fred

I think I'll pop to new york, burn that crappy star and stripes, shout all yanks are bastards and wait to see what sort of yanks they are.
I suspect I'll find out what a baseball bat tastes like.

This bloke was clearly a daft bastard.

Well he doesn't sound like the most diplomatic expat I've heard of but your comparison is a little absurd, the guy made complant about his property being vandalised, he didn't burn a flag or do anything that could be conceived as blaphemous.

Sounds like, but could be deemed offensive if he accused someone of the vandalism, and as we know once a mob gets going anything can happen. For example, if someone decides to say he blasphemed, no question about it he has a serious problem.

Originally Posted by Sdigit

...I agree with you to a point, yes people would most certainly be offended at being acccused of a crime if they didn't commit it, but as Mr Fred has demonstrated religious types will band
together in their "common" cause no matter, there doesn't need to be a mob on hand to get Muslims falling in line with the cries of blasphemy, the mere accusation of it has prompted him to agree with the baseless accusation even though there seems to be no evidence of it.

It may be a baseless accusation according to our familiar understanding of the word, but in a Muslim country the call of blasphemy can always be trusted to raise a mob in a hurry.

Still, as we've been recently reminded Indonesia is not an Islamic nation, just a conservative Muslim-majority democracy moving in the right slippery direction.