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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Sandman and Rise of the Guardians


Joseph Herrin (12-23-2012)

The above image of President Barack Obama was formed from sand and put on display during the Democratic National Convention held in Charlotte, North Carolina. It appeared in the news at the time when rains that drenched the area damaged the sand sculpture and it had to be refashioned.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/02/Obama-Sand-Sculpture-at-DNC-Damaged-by-Rains

When a sister in Christ wrote to me recently and mentioned that she had been contemplating the coincidence of the names Hurricane Sandy, and Sandy Hook, and was led to contemplate the relation to the name “Sandman,” she piqued my interest. Sister Sherry provided a link to an article that describes Barack Obama as a sandman. In the article there is a quotation from 2008 where Barack Obama uses the term “Sandman” when referring to his performance.

At a Jan. 19 (2008) fundraiser at Harlem’s legendary Apollo Theater, Obama took to the stage toward the end of the evening and broke out in song.

“It had been a particularly musical occasion and the president’s appearance followed several performers including soul singer the Rev. Al Green, whom Obama acknowledged,” Hodges explains in his book. “But the entertainers were expected to sing – Obama was only expected to speak. Without warning, however, he delivered a surprisingly pleasing falsetto lyric, ‘I’mmm … sooo in love with you’ – the opening line from Green’s 1972 hit ‘Let’s Stay Together.’ Not believing their ears, the audience bursts into applause. After the ovation subsides, Obama takes it all in, then hesitantly glances toward his staff off stage right. Talking directly to them but also to America, he blurts out, ‘Those guys didn’t think I would do it. I told you I was going to do it.’”

But Obama added a comment most reporters missed.

“The sandman did not come out,” Obama said. “Now don’t worry, I can’t sing like you, but I just wanted to show my appreciation.”
[Source: http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/forensic-profiler-meet-obama-the-sandman/]

What Obama intended by this remark is revealed in the following information found on Wikipedia.

Howard Sims (January 24, 1917 – May 20, 2003), also known as "Sandman," was a tap dancer in vaudeville. He acquired his name from the sand he sprinkled on the floor to amplify the sound of his steps when he danced. In his senior years, Sims appeared at the famous Apollo Theater, comedically ushering failed acts offstage with a shepherd's crook, or "hook"...
[Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Sims]

That something was signified by this statement nearly five years ago, will become more apparent throughout this post. I have pondered various aspects of what it means to be a “sandman.” A sandman is easily molded. Sand can take on whatever image is desired at the moment. It can easily be reworked, taking a completely different form. The images created from sand lack substance, having no permanence.

Marvel Comics introduced a character known as the Sandman in 1963, two years after Barack Obama was born. This character was a villain, but later “reformed” and became an ally of Spider Man. This switch of character seems befitting one who is identified with something as changeable as sand. Following is an excerpt from the Wikipedia article on this comic strip character.

Sandman (William Baker a.k.a. Flint Marko) is a fictional character who appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. A shapeshifter endowed through an accident with the ability to turn himself into sand...

William Baker was born in Queens, New York. At three years old his father abandoned him and his mother. In these early years she took her son to Coney Island beach. He lost himself happily in sand sculptures...
[Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandman_%28Marvel_Comics%29]

A number of things stand out prominently to me. First, the Sandman went by an alias. This is in keeping with Barry Soetero/Barack Obama. The Wikipedia article mentions that the name Flint Marko was adopted to hide his true identity. The parallels are obvious here. Second, the Sandman’s father abandoned him at an early age, as did the father of Barry Soetero. Third, the Sandman is a “shapeshifter.” This is a quality shared by many politicians. They take on whatever image best suits their targeted audience at the moment. When appearing before an LGBT audience, Barack Obama is a champion of that which Yahweh describes as an abomination. When speaking to Muslim’s, he is an ally of Islam and makes reference to his upbringing where he grew up listening to the call of the azan, describing it as “the prettiest sound on earth.” When before Muslim’s he magnifies his Islamic heritage, and praises the achievements and teachings of Islam.

http://youtu.be/tCAffMSWSzY

When before a Christian audience, Barack Obama quotes the Bible, and presents an image of a solid Christian.

http://youtu.be/grzFA15iSj4



When speaking to an audience of Planned Parenthood staff and supporters, Obama speaks of his defense of a woman’s right to kill her unborn baby. When speaking to a nation grieving the loss of twenty children in Sandy Hook, Obama speaks of a parent’s great compassion for their children, and seemingly wipes away tears at the thought of the death of these little ones. A sandman seems an apt illustration of such a man who takes on an image to fit the moment, being as changeable as shifting sands blown about by the wind.

One portrayal that Barack Obama has adopted much of late is that of a protector, or defender of men. His appearance in those areas impacted by Hurricane Sandy, and his promise to take care of people, was displayed across the media as the President was cast in the role of defender, protector, and provider.



Away from the photo op, however, the image proves as insubstantial as sand.




Interestingly, the name Sandy means “Defender of men.” Another sister, Alison, notified me of a current Hollywood production, and animated feature length film titled Rise of the Guardians. One of the heroic, yet imaginary, characters in the movie is the Sandman. In this movie, the Sandman goes by the name “Sandy!” Pay close attention to the words spoken in the following movie trailer.

http://youtu.be/_3OmoPtPp0I/



The voice declares:

We go by many names (like Barack Obama) and take many forms (like a sandman). We bring wonder and hope.




We bring joy and dreams.




It is our job to protect the children of the world. As long as they believe in us we will guard them with our lives.

Compare these words from the film trailer to the words recently spoken by the President while addressing the families and friends of the victims in Sandy Hook.

We bear responsibility for every child… This is our first task, caring for our children. It’s our first job. If we don’t get that right, we don’t get anything right.

That’s how, as a society, we will be judged.

And by that measure, can we truly say, as a nation, that we’re meeting our obligations? Can we honestly say that we’re doing enough to keep our children, ALL of them, safe from harm? Can we claim, as a nation, that we’re all together there, letting them know they are loved and teaching them to love in return? Can we say that we’re truly doing enough to give all the children of this country the chance they deserve to live out their lives in happiness and with purpose?

I’ve been reflecting on this the last few days, and if we’re honest with ourselves, the answer’s no. We’re not doing enough. And we will have to change.
[End Excerpt]

Change. That is a familiar theme for this President. Not only has he promised change, but he changes character to match every moment. He is the sandman. This leads me to another characteristic of the fabled Sandman. The Sandman puts people to sleep, especially children, and causes them to dream.

Traditionally he is a character in many children's stories. He is said to sprinkle sand or dust on or into the eyes of the child at night to bring on dreams and sleep.
[Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandman]




Sandman - DC Comics

Establishing this connection further, the movie Rise of the Guardians is produced by DreamWorks.



Dreams are something intangible, unsubstantial, ethereal. They have no more substance than the media caricatures of America’s politicians. Blink and they are gone. The President, and those in league with him, are asking Americans to believe in them. They are asking for the people’s trust, assuring them that they serve the ultimate welfare of the populace. This is an illusion. It is part of the dragon’s breath, that flood of deception being poured out upon the earth.

The image portrayed of America’s current President is a fable. It contains no more truth than the story of Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, or the Easter Bunny. Yet, when people believe it, it becomes real to them.




Image




Reality

I highly recommend to all who are able that they watch the video Dreams of My Real Father. It draws back the curtain and exposes the fraud that has been perpetrated upon America.

http://www.amazon.com/Dreams-My-Real-Father-Deception/dp/B009C1FOUE/

(If you are an Amazon Prime member, the video is free for viewing. For others it is a available for a nominal fee.)

The video reveals that the image of Obama portrayed to the masses is fiction. His persona has been engineered by various members of a global elite working to bring forth a New World Order. Like the sand that was taken from Myrtle Beach in South Carolina and used to construct an image of Barack Obama at the DNC forum in Charlotte, his appearance is something that has been crafted by the powers that be.

There is an insightful article on World Net Daily that sets forth a potent argument for William Ayers being the actual author of the Obama biography Dreams From My Father. There are some intriguing statements found in the article.

Allow me to reconstruct how Obama transformed himself in a few short years from an awkward amateur into what the New York Times has called “that rare politician who can write … and write movingly and genuinely about himself.”
[Source: http://www.wnd.com/2008/10/77815/]

Obama is truly a sandman, having experienced a re-birth, taking on a new identity. His image continues to morph to suit the moment. Before Barack Obama had done anything as President of the United States he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. A bringer of peace became another part of his persona, though this reputation was baseless.

What is the connection between the Sandman and Rise of the Guardians? This is a question I have been pondering. It is not without purpose that the powers that rule Hollywood should choose at this very hour when the Sandy Hook shootings occurred, to have a major motion picture for children out in the theaters that is titledRise of the Guardians. This movie is based on a series of books by William Joyce titled The Guardians of Childhood. This is a bizarre, if not macabre, coincidence. Keep in mind that “holly wood” is used to make wands for witches and wizards. In the Harry Potter series, Harry’s wand was made of holly wood. Satan uses movies for diabolical and occult purposes.

In the movie, a character named Pitch seeks to engulf the world in darkness. This is a theme found in multiple movies of late (The Dark Knight Rises, Zero Dark Thirty, Into Darkness, etc.). In Rise of the Guardians a group of fictitious characters arises to save the world and guard the children. At the same time we are seeing a group of fictional guardians arising in the natural world, led by the mythological image recognized as Barack Hussein Obama. He is the Sandman (Sandy). In the movie, the mythological beings triumph over darkness when Sandy is resurrected through the faith of the children. Sandy the Sandman replaces the nightmares of Pitch with the pleasant dreams he supplies. Barack Obama is also a purveyor of dreams which he invites all mankind to embrace.




Living The Dream



Hope - Believe - Dream



Dream

It was at Sandy Hook that Obama recently was put on display by his handlers to establish his image as guardian of the children, the one who will drive away their nightmares and cause them to dream pleasant dreams once more.



Photo Op for Obama in Sandy Hook Where He Appears as the Guardian of Childhood

The image above brings to mind the words of Christ:

Mark 10:14
“Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.”

Yet this image is a charade. This is the man who, while a politician in Illinois, voted against legislation that would have required healthcare professionals to provide life support for viable babies born alive during failed abortions. He chose rather to permit the living babies to be cast aside to die as the medical staff neglected them. Obama’s voting record while in the Senate was the most liberal (immoral) in the nation. He is no guardian of children, but he will don the persona when it is useful.

II Corinthians 11:13-15
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their deeds.

It seems to me that the crime in Sandy Hook is being used by proponents of a New World Order to accomplish multiple goals. One is the erosion of gun ownership rights among private citizens. Another aim is to encourage the people to buy into the idea that the government should fulfill the role of the guardian of all children. As false apostles, deceitful workers who have donned a disguise, these servants of Satan would portray themselves as servants of righteousness and ministers of light who will keep the darkness at bay.

Observe now, the deceit of Satan. Satan’s disciples control all sides of the public discussion. The conflict between the NRA and the government is choreographed. The government causes the people to respond with great fear that their guns will be taken away, and the NRA counters with a solution that is precisely what the NWO intended. Put an armed government employee in every school in the land. Let the government arise as the guardians of childhood, and have it accomplished in such a way that it appears that the people have demanded it.

N.R.A. Envisions ‘a Good Guy With a Gun’ in Every School
By ERIC LICHTBLAU and MOTOKO RICH

WASHINGTON — After a weeklong silence, the National Rifle Association announced Friday that it wants to arm security officers at every school in the country...

“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” Wayne LaPierre, the N.R.A. vice president, said...

Mr. LaPierre said his organization would finance and develop a program called the National Model School Shield Program, to work with schools to arm and train school guards, including retired police officers and volunteers. The gun rights group named Asa Hutchinson, a former Republican congressman from Arkansas and administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency, to lead a task force to develop the program.

Mr. LaPierre also said that before Congress moved to pass any new gun restrictions, it should “act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this nation” by the time students return from winter break in January.
[Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/22/us/nra-calls-for-armed-guards-at-schools.html]

The media has recently played up stories of former Marines who voluntarily took up station outside their children’s schools in the wake of Sandy Hook. In both California, and Nashville, Tennessee, Marines stationed themselves outside of schools to guard the children.

abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/marine-guards-calif-school-18023054

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/19/jordan-pritchard-newtown-shooting_n_2331168.html

In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook massacre we are seeing the rise of the guardians. It seems more than coincidence that this very month, in a town very near to where I live, a new facility has opened to train police, private guards, and other law enforcement personnel in urban warfare and disaster preparedness. They have constructed a miniature city to conduct their training. The name of the training facility - “Guardian Center.”



Guardian Training Center Opens in Perry, Georgia

http://www.gpb.org/news/2012/12/07/mock-city-for-training-opens-in-perry

To close what has become a lengthier post than I anticipated, I will state that the promises of Satan and those who are his servants are deceptive. Light is promised only to bring in darkness. The promise of pleasant dreams will lead to nightmares. Consider the following comic book cover from DC Comics, bearing in mind the relation of the letters “DC” to Washington, D.C..




May you be blessed with peace and understanding in these days.

75 Economic Numbers That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe


75 Economic Numbers From 2012 That Are Almost Too Crazy To BelieveWhat a year 2012 has been!  The mainstream media continues to tell us what a "great job" the Obama administration and the Federal Reserve are doing of managing the economy, but meanwhile things just continue to get even worse for the poor and the middle class.  It is imperative that we educate the American people about the true condition of our economy and about why all of this is happening.  If nothing is done, our debt problems will continue to get worse, millions of jobs will continue to leave the country, small businesses will continue to be suffocated, the middle class will continue to collapse, and poverty in the United States will continue to explode.  Just "tweaking" things slightly is not going to fix our economy.  We need a fundamental change in direction.  Right now we are living in a bubble of debt-fueled false prosperity that allows us to continue to consume far more wealth than we produce, but when that bubble bursts we are going to experience the most painful economic "adjustment" that America has ever gone through.  We need to be able to explain to our fellow Americans what is coming, why it is coming and what needs to be done.  Hopefully the crazy economic numbers that I have included in this article will be shocking enough to wake some people up.
The end of the year is a time when people tend to gather with family and friends more than they do during the rest of the year.  Hopefully many of you will use the list below as a tool to help start some conversations about the coming economic collapse with your loved ones.  Sadly, most Americans still tend to doubt that we are heading into economic oblivion.  So if you have someone among your family and friends that believes that everything is going to be "just fine", just show them these numbers.  They are a good summary of the problems that the U.S. economy is currently facing.
The following are 50 economic numbers from 2012 that are almost too crazy to believe...
#1 In December 2008, 31.6 million Americans were on food stamps.  Today, a new all-time record of47.7 million Americans are on food stamps.  That number has increased by more than 50 percent over the past four years, and yet the mainstream media still has the gall to insist that "things are getting better".
#2 Back in the 1970s, about one out of every 50 Americans was on food stamps.  Today, about one out of every 6.5 Americans is on food stamps.
#3 According to one calculation, the number of Americans on food stamps now exceeds the combined populations of "Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming."
#4 According to one recent survey, 55 percent of all Americans have received money from a safety net program run by the federal government at some point in their lives.
#5 For the first time ever, more than a million public school students in the United States are homeless.  That number has risen by 57 percent since the 2006-2007 school year.
#6 Median household income in the U.S. has fallen for four consecutive years.  Overall, it has declined by over $4000 during that time span.
#7 Families that have a head of household under the age of 30 have a poverty rate of 37 percent.
#8 The percentage of working age Americans with a job has been under 59 percent for 39 months in a row.
#9 In September 2009, during the depths of the last economic crisis, 58.7 percent of all working age Americans were employed.  In November 2012, 58.7 percent of all working age Americans were employed.  It is more then 3 years later, and we are in the exact same place.
#10 When you total up all working age Americans that do not have a job in America today, it comes tomore than 100 million.
#11 According to one recent survey, 55 percent of all small business owners in America "say they would not start a business today given what they know now and in the current environment."
#12 The number of jobs at new small businesses continues to decline.  According to economist Tim Kane, the following is how the decline in the number of startup jobs per 1000 Americans breaks downby presidential administration...
Bush Sr.: 11.3
Clinton: 11.2
Bush Jr.: 10.8
Obama: 7.8
#13 The U.S. share of global GDP has fallen from 31.8 percent in 2001 to 21.6 percent in 2011.
#14 The United States has fallen in the global economic competitiveness rankings compiled by the World Economic Forum for four years in a row.
#15 There are four major U.S. banks that each have more than 40 trillion dollars of exposure to derivatives.
#16 In 2000, there were more than 17 million Americans working in manufacturing, but now there are less than 12 million.
#17 According to the Pew Research Center, 61 percent of all Americans were "middle income" back in 1971.  Today, only 51 percent of all Americans are.
#18 The Pew Research Center has also found that 85 percent of all middle class Americans say that it is harder to maintain a middle class standard of living today than it was 10 years ago.
#19 62 percent of all middle class Americans say that they have had to reduce household spendingover the past year.
#20 Right now, approximately 48 percent of all Americans are either considered to be "low income" or are living in poverty.
#21 Approximately 57 percent of all children in the United States are living in homes that are either considered to be either "low income" or impoverished.
#22 According to one survey, 77 percent of all Americans are now living paycheck to paycheck at least part of the time.
#23 Back in 1950, more than 80 percent of all men in the United States had jobs.  Today, less than 65 percent of all men in the United States have jobs.
#24 The average amount of time that an unemployed worker stays out of work in the United States is40 weeks.
#25 If you can believe it, approximately one out of every four American workers makes 10 dollars an hour or less.
#26 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, an all-time record 49 percent of all Americans live in a home where at least one person receives financial assistance from the federal government.  Back in 1983, that number was less than 30 percent.
#27 Right now, more than 100 million Americans are enrolled in at least one welfare program run by the federal government.  And that does not even count Social Security or Medicare.  Overall, there are almost 80 different "means-tested welfare programs" that the federal government is currently running.
#28 When you account for all government transfer payments and all forms of government employment, more than half of all Americans are now at least partially financially dependent on the government.
#29 Barack Obama has been president for less than four years, and during that time the number of Americans "not in the labor force" has increased by nearly 8.5 million.  Something seems really "off" about that number, because during the entire decade of the 1980s the number of Americans "not in the labor force" only rose by about 2.5 million.
#30 Electricity bills in the United States have risen faster than the overall rate of inflation for five years in a row.
#31 According to USA Today, many Americans have actually seen their water bills triple over the past 12 years.
#32 There are now 20.2 million Americans that spend more than half of their incomes on housing.  That represents a 46 percent increase from 2001.
#33 Right now, approximately 25 million American adults are living with their parents.
#34 As the economy has slowed down, so has the number of marriages.  According to a Pew Research Center analysis, only 51 percent of all Americans that are at least 18 years old are currently married.  Back in 1960, 72 percent of all U.S. adults were married.
#35 At this point, only 24.6 percent of all jobs in the United States are good jobs.
#36 In 1999, 64.1 percent of all Americans were covered by employment-based health insurance.  Today, only 55.1 percent are covered by employment-based health insurance.
#37 Recently it was announced that total student loan debt in the United States has passed the one trillion dollar mark.
#38 If you can believe it, one out of every seven Americans has at least 10 credit cards.
#39 One survey of business executives has ranked California as the worst state in America to do business for 8 years in a row.
#40 In the city of Detroit today, more than 50 percent of all children are living in poverty, andclose to 50 percent of all adults are functionally illiterate.
#41 It is being projected that half of all American children will be on food stamps at least once before they turn 18 years of age.
#42 More than three times as many new homes were sold in the United States in 2005 as will be sold in 2012.
#43 If you can believe it, 53 percent of all Americans with a bachelor's degree under the age of 25 were either unemployed or underemployed last year.
#44 The U.S. economy continues to trade good paying jobs for low paying jobs.  60 percent of the jobs lost during the last recession were mid-wage jobs, but 58 percent of the jobs created since then have been low wage jobs.
#45 Our trade deficit with China in 2011 was $295.5 billion.  That was the largest trade deficit that one country has had with another country in the history of the planet.
#46 The United States has lost an average of approximately 50,000 manufacturing jobs a month since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.
#47 According to the Economic Policy Institute, America is losing half a million jobs to China every single year.
#48 The U.S. tax code is now more than 3.8 million words long.  If you took all of William Shakespeare's works and collected them together, the entire collection would only be about 900,000 words long.
#49 According to the IMF, the global elite are holding a total of 18 trillion dollars in offshore banking havens such as the Cayman Islands.
#50 The value of the U.S. dollar has declined by more than 96 percent since the Federal Reserve was first created.
#51 2012 was the third year in a row that the yield for corn has declined in the United States.
#52 Experts are telling us that global food reserves have reached their lowest level in almost 40 years.
#53 One recent survey discovered that 40 percent of all Americans have $500 or less in savings.
#54 If you can believe it, one recent survey found that 28 percent of all Americans do not have a single penny saved for emergencies.
#55 Medical costs related to obesity in the United States are estimated to be approximately $147 billion a year.
#56 Corporate profits as a percentage of GDP are at an all-time high.  Meanwhile, wages as a percentage of GDP are near an all-time low.
#57 Today, the wealthiest 1 percent of all Americans own more wealth than the bottom 95 percentcombined.
#58 The wealthiest 400 families in the United States have about as much wealth as the bottom 50 percent of all Americans combined.
#59 The six heirs of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton have a net worth that is roughly equal to thebottom 30 percent of all Americans combined.
#60 At this point, the poorest 50 percent of all Americans collectively own just 2.5% of all the wealth in the United States.
#61 Nearly 500,000 federal employees now make at least $100,000 a year.
#62 In 2006, only 12 percent of all federal workers made $100,000 or more per year.  Now, approximately 22 percent of all federal workers do.
#63 If you can believe it, there are 77,000 federal workers that make more than the governors of their own states do.
#64 Nearly 15,000 retired federal workers are collecting federal pensions for life worth at least $100,000 annually.  The list includes such names as Newt Gingrich, Bob Dole, Trent Lott, Dick Gephardt and Dick Cheney.
#65 U.S. taxpayers spend more than 20 times as much on the Obamas as British taxpayers spend on the royal family.
#66 Family homelessness in the Washington D.C. region (one of the wealthiest regions in the entire country) has risen 23 percent since the last recession began.
#67 If Bill Gates gave every single penny of his fortune to the U.S. government, it would only cover the U.S. budget deficit for about 15 days.
#68 During fiscal year 2012, 62 percent of the federal budget was spent on entitlements.
#69 Back in 1965, only one out of every 50 Americans was on Medicaid.  Today, approximately one out of every 6 Americans is on Medicaid.
#70 It is being projected that Obamacare will add 16 million more Americans to the Medicaid rolls.
#71 Medicare is also growing by leaps and bounds.  As I wrote about recently, it is being projected that the number of Americans on Medicare will grow from 50.7 million in 2012 to 73.2 million in 2025.
#72 Thanks to our foolish politicians (including Obama), Medicare is facing unfunded liabilities of more than 38 trillion dollars over the next 75 years.  That comes to approximately $328,404 for each and every household in the United States.
#73 Amazingly, the U.S. national debt is now up to 16.3 trillion dollars.  When Barack Obama first took office the national debt was just 10.6 trillion dollars.
#74 During the first four years of the Obama administration, the U.S. government accumulated about as much debt as it did from the time that George Washington took office to the time that George W. Bush took office.
#75 Today, the U.S. national debt is more than 5000 times larger than it was when the Federal Reserve was originally created back in 1913.
Economic Collapse

Savage Muslim mob threw rotten eggs at Christians



More than 200 Indonesian Muslims threw rotten eggs at Christians wanting to hold a Christmas mass near land outside Jakarta where they plan to build a church, police and a witness said.

Some 100 Christian worshippers intended to hold a mass near empty land where they hope to build a church, about 30-kilometers east of the capital, in a project barred by district government and community members in 2009.

Since then, worshippers from the Filadelfia Batak Christian Protestant have held Sunday services under scorching sun outside the property.

On Tuesday, however, local community members blocked the road near the land, Andri Ananta, a local police chief on Jakarta's outskirts, told AFP.

An AFP photographer witnessed furious locals — men and women wearing Muslim headscarf, with small children in tow — physically blocking the road and throwing rotten eggs at the gathering worshippers.

Ananta said police managed to convince the Christians to drop their plan and return home.

...instead of telling the Muslims to cut out the savage behavior.
"We tried our best to avoid any clash and the Christians agreed to leave," he said, adding 380 police and military personnel including an anti-riot squad were deployed to the area.

Church leader Reverend Palti Panjaitan said the incident came after a Christmas Eve attack on Monday evening when "intolerant people" threw not only rotten eggs but plastic bags filled with urine and cow dung at them.

"Everything had happened while police were there. They were just watching without doing anything to stop them from harming us," he told AFP.

The country's high court last year overruled the district government's 2009 decision, but constant intimidation from Muslims in the area has delayed the church's construction, church officials said.

"The subject peoples ... are forbidden to build new churches." ('Umdat al-Salik, o11.5). Islamic law also forbids Christians to repair old churches.
Indonesia's constitution guarantees freedom of religion but rights groups say violence against minorities including Christians and the Ahmadiyah Islamic sect has escalated since 2008.

Ninety percent of Indonesia's population of 240 million identify themselves as Muslim but the vast majority practice a moderate form of Islam.

Oh, well, then! Will that Vast Majority rein in those "intolerant people"? And maybe pick up the Christians' dry-cleaning bills? Too much to ask?
Jihad Watch