PRISON SENTENCE upheld for Mother-of-four who privately said her neighborhood mosque’s call to prayer was too loud

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Even in private, one must embrace the supremacist nails-on-a-chalkboard war cry or suffer the consequences.  “Moderate” Indonesia’s Supreme Court has upheld a jail sentence for a mother of four who was convicted last year on blasphemy charges for  saying that her neighborhood mosque’s call to prayer was too loud. Never forget this is where Obama was raised for his formative years.

Complaint regarding neighborhood mosque’s loud noise, proved costly for Indonesia

Complaint regarding neighborhood mosque’s loud noise, proved costly for Indonesian

Dev Discourse News Desk April 8, 2019: 08-04-2019 :

In a March 27 ruling posted on the court’s website on Monday, the court rejected the appeal by Meliana, a 44-year old ethnic Chinese, Buddhist resident of Medan on Sumatra island.

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Indonesia’s Supreme Court has upheld a jail sentence for a mother of four who was convicted last year on blasphemy charges for complaining that her neighbourhood mosque was too loud. In a March 27 ruling posted on the court’s website on Monday, the court rejected the appeal by Meliana, a 44-year old ethnic Chinese, Buddhist resident of Medan on Sumatra island.

Indonesia has the world’s largest population of Muslims, and sizable Buddhist, Christian and other religious minorities, but the propagation of conservative and hardline [sic – authentic]  interpretations of Islam in recent years has fanned fears that the secular nation is becoming less tolerant. “This is another nail in the coffin of religious freedom and tolerance in Indonesia because of institutionalised discrimination,” said Andreas Harsono of Human Rights Watch.

Meliana’s lawyers said she had made remarks in a private conversation in 2016 on the volume of mosque loudspeakers. Those remarks were twisted to appear like she was objecting to the call to prayer itself and repeated in the community and on social media, her legal team said. Meliana is serving an 18-month sentence in a Medan prison.

Senior members of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the country’s largest moderate Muslim organisation, have said her remarks should not be considered blasphemy. There are hundreds of thousands of mosques across the vast Indonesian archipelago and most use loudspeakers to play the ‘azan’ or call to prayer, which lasts a few minutes.

But many also play lengthy versions of prayers or sermons lasting over 30 minutes, which the Indonesian Mosque Council has deemed unnecessary.

(With inputs from agencies.)

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Suresh
Suresh
4 years ago

They are following their perfect man – Moham-mad. And if you dare expose truth about him they will keel you !

just like the jihadis in Indianapolis are doing http://bit.ly/2rVCN7E
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Ziggy46
Ziggy46
4 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

Great post, Suresh and commentary by Pamela Geller; I have admired Eastern Europeans, a people who have tasted their ashes and blood over the centuries but more so under underfoot of Communism and Fascism. Indeed, they do not need a Crystal ball to foretell the future; they have previously tasted it and will not bend to the suicidal will of the EU or others, especially the Muslim scourge.

Dan Roley
Dan Roley
4 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

Suresh..very grateful for the ‘link’ to CNM news…Dave Lawson.
Indianapolis is my temporary hideout after I fled Seattle due to lgbtq ++ mafia death threats coming my way.
I am actually a follower of Gellerreport. Plus..my personal seattle experiences with jihadists was enlightening. I am working into position to get into pro life action indianapolis style.
Thankyou. Great link!!.

Suresh
Suresh
4 years ago
Reply to  Dan Roley

You are welcome ! Keep Learning and sharing and ask questions to wake up folks.

Don’t push your opinions on Muslims to strangers or Leftists , they’ll not think but call
you “racist” “islamphobe” or other such B.S terms.

Share jihadi attack article and ask Questions like ” Do you think its good idea to have more terrorists like this in your neibhourhood ?” Let them think it over.

Its one way we can Push back against the Left/Jihadi propaganda of Lies and coverups.

Dan Roley
Dan Roley
4 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

Suresh..good of you to share strategies re sharing my anti jihad sentiments. My life has been reasonably long and continually peppered by islamist chaos..jihad ..
You know the spread of radical islamist strategy is wide wide spread.
Indonesia was my first very muslim living experience. Ethiopia..eritrea..somalia..nigeria..all these muslim majority nations built radicalization machinery in Seattle ..my first hand resistance to jihad was risky at times..you know what I mean. the center powers of islamic takeover are very active in America. Our resistance is required.

Gator Hogg
Gator Hogg
4 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

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Dorrie - Conservative
Dorrie - Conservative
4 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

Yep, particularly POLAND! They WELL remember what happened to their country with the WWII Russia invasion!

redbird
redbird
4 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

that link was great! maybe to avoid future controversy, they can just post still shots of muslims rejoicing at the burning of Notre Dame, and the many places they have torched recently in France. with captions of what was actually said. or pictures of the dead Americans that have been dragged through the streets in muslim countries, etc etc etc.

Ban Islam
Ban Islam
4 years ago

Living with any large Muslim population is a one-way road to hell for non-Muslims. They’ll take away your rights and occasionally you’ll be subjected to the raping of your wife/daughter, burning of your house and business, and daily persecution because you don’t belong to their criminal cult. They’re nothing but a plague on the rest of humanity. We don’t need these cretins on our planet.

Imagine they call it ‘blasphemy’ if you don’t want to be subjected to their irritating ‘call to prayers’ blaring from their loudspeakers. Muslims don’t need to be reminded of when to pray, they already know. The speakers are there as a constant reminder that Muslims are dominant over the rest of us. We need to shove those loudspeakers where the sun don’t shine.

Larenzo1
Larenzo1
4 years ago
Reply to  Ban Islam

Obama said it was the most beautiful sound he ever heard. I believe he made that statement while he kept BB Netanyahu waiting at a back kitchen door. Sarc

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

Coming to the dying, corrupt, rotten, degenerate atheist West soon…

redbird
redbird
4 years ago

umm, coming? uh uh. HERE. just been well hidden. three yrs ago, when i was doing intensive research, i learned there were 14 (or something) jihadist training camps in the US, including one in my state. i seriously doubt that number has stayed the same, and not in the direction of declining.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

I’ll bet that when the 0mahdi was living in Indonesia, the Indonesian muslum chumpanzees were busily committing their genocide of the kafir al najjis in E. Timor.

James Jones
James Jones
4 years ago

That must be where his fondness of the ” call to prayer, the most beautiful sound” came from. If there is to be a history of things, I want to read what it would say about the greatest mistake America made – twice.

Joensanford
Joensanford
4 years ago

I fail to see even one redeeming feature to this barbaric cult. That call to prayer would offend a Howler monkey. And that Omar that Minnesota stupidly elected to congress, is by far the dumbest person ever elected.

jbaviera
jbaviera
4 years ago
Reply to  Joensanford

And AOC is giving her a run for her money!!!

redbird
redbird
4 years ago
Reply to  Joensanford

i understand your comment, but have issues with it.
1. she was not elected, not in the true sense of the word.
2. she is not stupid. she has learned to use US laws and customs against us very effectively.

Mohammed_Goldberg
Mohammed_Goldberg
4 years ago

I love the sound of the Muslim call to prayer, followed by two rifle shots, then the US National Anthem. Have it as a ringtone on my phone.

jbaviera
jbaviera
4 years ago

YOU TOO?

Mariaca
Mariaca
4 years ago

With all that ‘praying’ Muslims do, it’s a wonder they’ve found time to build, invent, or fix anything. Oh, wait…

Dan Roley
Dan Roley
4 years ago

its not surprising that indonesia constantly delivers ”lawful” insanity. My personal 6 months living in Bali was an eye opening frightening experience.
Yes they say it is a muslim nation. Even possibly one of islams largest herd of muslins.
Like I found in africa..muslim elites talk ”koran”..but they live in Sodom. See for yourself.
Muslims openly hook up with older males possessing beautiful pliant young MEN.
Really. Its so blatant that just using internet camera visits to Jakarta etc you will see this gay hookup nation.
Why are they hiding this wide spread homo fascination.??

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  Dan Roley

Molesting little boys is a time-honored LEGAL muslum tradition across Pakistain, Iranistain and Afghanistain.

Joan C.
Joan C.
4 years ago

That’s why the Catholics, well…the Pope, loves them! They come off the same tree!

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  Joan C.

I don’t know anyone Catholic (well at least among the laity) that supports pederasty or wouldn’t turn in a priest for engaging in it. In Pakistain, Afghanistan and Iranistan it’s completely legal to bugger little boys and no one ever complains about it as far as I’ve heard and the buggering of little boys isn’t always done w/the consent of the little boy involved.

Larenzo1
Larenzo1
4 years ago
Reply to  Dan Roley

They hide it because it is perversion. Hell they have contest for who has the most beautiful bot and auction them off to be cornholed to death.

redbird
redbird
4 years ago
Reply to  Dan Roley

if you don’t already know, it isn’t considered homosexual if you are the “giver,”
not that i think that actually stops them.

patd
patd
4 years ago

Time to get rid of all of the muslims!!!! They push their doctrine of hate onto everyone else and then cry like babies when someone else believes a different way. And the libturds will protect these POS feral animals until they are killed by them!

Clem Jackson
Clem Jackson
4 years ago

Does islam attract low IQ people because they are easily brainwashed and can’t think for themselves in a rational moralistic way. Or does islam because of its inbreeding program lower their IQ deliberately.
Why are most third world countries islamic?
I am sure there is a theme running here.
Why do western countries send aid to these third world countries.
The mind boggles.

Larenzo1
Larenzo1
4 years ago
Reply to  Clem Jackson

Inbreeding is extremely rampant in muzzie communities and countries.

Peter WF
Peter WF
4 years ago
Reply to  Clem Jackson

Greater than 50% of marriages in some areas are to 1st cousins or closer.
https://genetics.thetech.org/ask-a-geneticist/inbreeding-revealed
Purpose of staying within the family is so the family assets don’t dissipate.
See also https://www.10news.one/ in the islam section down the page.

Also search “world map average iq”

Clem Jackson
Clem Jackson
4 years ago
Reply to  Peter WF

Hello Peter, the reason they marry first cousins primarily, is because mohamed married his first cousin so anything mohamed does is ok for the rest of the islamic world to emulate. And I do take your point that it keeps the assets within the family as well but also keeps the defective genes there as well.sadly.

Dorrie - Conservative
Dorrie - Conservative
4 years ago

Actually, if the neighbors were SMART, they would get together and silence that stinking mosque ENTIRELY!

Larenzo1
Larenzo1
4 years ago

People silenced one in Tennessee. They said diesel works well.

Dorrie - Conservative
Dorrie - Conservative
4 years ago
Reply to  Larenzo1

Excellent! That needs to happen anywhere in this country where one pops up! DOWN THEY GO!

byronmullet
byronmullet
4 years ago

One way to stop terrorism is for the West to tell the Muslims whenever one of them goes off on a terror tirade we will bulldoze the nearest mosque to the act. This will also take care of the loud speakers which inspired the terrorist in the first place. I say this not as an “islamophobic” but to get Muslims to peer pressure radicals to behave themselves. My suggestion to those accused of blaspheming Islam, is to ask the question of your accusers, how can you blaspheme human rights violations?

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
4 years ago

The thing with you ucking Mouslems is you don’t allow us to do that in your land. You are just like Demoncraps in America.

TWO FACED!

VoiceInDesert
VoiceInDesert
4 years ago

Shout joyfully to the LORD, all the earth;
Break forth in song, rejoice, and sing praises.
Sing to the LORD with the harp,
With the harp and the sound of a psalm,
With trumpets and the sound of a horn;
Shout joyfully before the LORD, the King

(Psalm 98:4-6 NKJV).

One can bet if Jews and Christians did exactly that in their respective places of worship, there will be complaints, and police will quickly put a stop to that, or tell them to quiet down. Not so at the mosques; Islam is exempt. (BTW, Ha Shem does not get nervous when we shout or blow the shofar.)

leonore35
leonore35
4 years ago

Remember when Pence praised ‘moderate’ Indonesia? BTW what happened to Pence he seems to have disappeared?
Non Muslim in a Muslim state – no chance

Larenzo1
Larenzo1
4 years ago
Reply to  leonore35

In defense of Pence he was being diplomatic. We still have some national security interest there.

redbird
redbird
4 years ago
Reply to  leonore35

there are so many “no go” zones in the US it’s ridiculous. my sister lives not far from one, little mogadishu, in minneapolis.

Bikinis not Burkas
Bikinis not Burkas
4 years ago

Indonesia was once a Buddhist country until they let the Muslims in saying Islam is the same as other religions , then the Muslims killed them and took over , what is your country doing to combat the Islamic takeover?

redbird
redbird
4 years ago

sounds like the spanish and the ancient civilizations they wiped out.

Larenzo1
Larenzo1
4 years ago

It sounds like a horse pissing on a flat rock.

byronmullet
byronmullet
4 years ago

Someone said the minaret loudspeakers is the same as Christian church bells ringing, except the loudspeakers represent fear, slavery and institutionalized human rights violations that are intellectualized on a ideological level, while the church bells ringing represents freedom from fear, Liberty and human rights.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  byronmullet

Church bells only ring on Sundays and perhaps holidays, the muslum call to prayer bleats out its fart 5 times a day, EVERY day of the week.

SemurJengkolMaknyus
SemurJengkolMaknyus
4 years ago

Church bells only ring on Sundays … yet it’s still lack of visitors … oh my …

weekend wifeSwapBang gatherings are more attractive apparently …

Silver Bullet Gun Oil
Silver Bullet Gun Oil
4 years ago

Inbred heathen scumbags.
Semper Fi
SBGO-on Amazon

Roma Mikhasev
Roma Mikhasev
4 years ago

beasts

Robert Kahlcke
Robert Kahlcke
4 years ago

It seems a little harsh, she should have placed an IED inside to exterminate these cockroaches.

Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
4 years ago

Islam is blasphemy.

Jan Favre
Jan Favre
4 years ago

This is moderate Islam made in Indonesia.

tom
tom
4 years ago

F-Allah, F-Mohammad and F-Islam!

Woodcarver
Woodcarver
4 years ago

Soon coming to America if Liberals have their way and Steven Colbert the Muslim sympathizer who had Omar on his show last night.

redbird
redbird
4 years ago
Reply to  Woodcarver

already here, in many places. just kept hush hush.

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