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Comment: FPI chief criticizes media
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em>Aug. 9, Online: Islam Defenders Front (FPI) chief Muhammad Rizieq Shihab condemned the media for biased reporting of FPI activities. “The media has presented misleading information,” Rizieq said Monday, as quoted by tempointeraktif.com, adding that the media blames the FPI whenever violations occur. The media’s reportage of FPI activities is imbalanced, Rizieq said. Rizieq mentioned a recent raid of a healthcare discussion in Banyuwangi, East Java, allegedly launched by FPI members and another alleged FPI attack on Christians in Bekasi, West Java. “No one apologized after it was disclosed that the attackers were not members of FPI,” Rizieq said.
Your comments:
The FPI creates mayhem. It’s the FPI attack dogs that should receive an apology when people defend themselves?
It’s far too late for the FPI to claim to be the wronged party.
Their anarchic violence is reminiscent of Germany in the late 1930s,
where a similar group of dogmatic totalitarian vigilantes denied the
population of that country the freedom, which eventually led to a global
conflict.
This fate could easily befall Indonesia, if the police remain impotent
and fail to protect the citizens from this blatant violence and continue
to ignore the principle of Indonesia’s Pancasila.
The damage to Indonesia’s global reputation will likely be irreversible.
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