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Muslim mob burns, ransacks churches in Indonesia
by AFP
France 24 International News
February 8, 2011
https://www.legal-project.org/1130/muslim-mob-burns-ransacks-churches-in-indonesia
Excerpt:
AFP - A Muslim mob burned churches and clashed with police in Indonesia on Tuesday as they demanded the death penalty for a Christian man convicted of blaspheming against Islam, police said.
Two days after a Muslim lynch mob killed three members of a minority Islamic sect, crowds of furious Muslims set two churches alight as they rampaged in anger over the prison sentence imposed on defendant Antonius Bawengan, 58.
A court in the Central Java town had earlier sentenced the man to five years in jail, the maximum allowable, for distributing leaflets insulting Islam.
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