Muslims in Papua New Guinea | thebereancall.org

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While Moslem leaders insist that Islam is the religion of peace, the history of Islam says otherwise. Islamic radicals, and many sects of Islam, are anything but peaceful. These radicals can easily dominate the majority of Moslems, and perpetuate a reign of terror on local non-Moslems, as well as any Moslems who oppose this religious violence. Most Moslems, and especially Moslem leaders in Moslem majority nations, delude themselves that this "Islam Is Peace" mantra is true. The result is that, when the Islamic radicals show up (and they have always been there, since the founding of Islam 1500 years ago), the more moderate leaders try to placate them. That doesn't work, and in a tragedy played out regularly in the history of Islam, the radicals are either suppressed, or gain strength until they are strong enough to fight a civil war. If the radicals win, they establish a religious dictatorship that lasts a generation or two, but eventually collapses from corruption and poor administration (running a government and economy according to the Koran does not work, a fact that the faithful keep denying despite evidence to the contrary).

As more Moslems move to Papua (the western half of New Guinea, one of the largest islands on the planet, and home of hundreds of Melanesian tribes that are very different culturally from the rest of Indonesia, and are largely Christian and pagan, rather than Moslem), ethnic and religious tensions have gotten worse. Along with these Malay (the largest ethnic group in Indonesia) migrants (seeking farmland in thinly populated Indonesia), come Islamic radicals, who promptly organize violence against the non-Moslem Papuans. But the Papuans push back, and local police have warned the national government that a major outbreak of violence is possible.

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