Indonesian man jailed for Facebook status.

[JDC]

An Indonesian man arrested after writing "God doesn't exist" on his Facebook page was jailed for 30 months Thursday for sharing explicit material about the Prophet Mohammed online.

Alexander Aan, 30, was found guilty of "deliberately spreading information inciting religious hatred and animosity", presiding judge Eka Prasetya Budi Dharma told the Muaro Sijunjung district court in western Sumatra.

Aan started an atheist group on Facebook on which he shared comic strips of the prophet having sex with his servant, Dharma said. He also uploaded three articles on his account, including one describing the prophet being attracted to his daughter-in-law.

"Under the Electronic Information and Transactions law, we sentence him to prison for a length of two years and six months," Dharma said.

"What he did has caused anxiety to the community and tarnished Islam."

Aan was beaten by an angry mob and arrested by police in his hometown of Pulau Punjung in western Sumatra in January after posting the material online and declaring himself an atheist. The court had earlier indicted Aan with two other charges -- persuading others to embrace atheism and blasphemy -- and prosecutors had sought a three-and-a-half-year jail term for him.

But the court convicted him of the most serious charge and dropped the other two.

Aan's arrest sparked outrage among Indonesians and international activists, who showed their support on his Facebook group and circulated petitions to have his charges dropped.

Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority nation, guarantees freedom of religion in its constitution and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, but only recognises six faiths: Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Catholicism, Protestantism and Confucianism.

Its courts have in recent years given light sentences to perpetrators of violent attacks on Christians and Islamic minority Ahmadis, some of which have been fatal.

Source: Yahoo! News


This is a load of shit IMO, for a country that supposedly recognizes freedom of religion. It only shows there are still backwards people in this modern world.

[SafetyMoose]

You say that as if your surprised JDC

[Pandalink]

Islam is a religion of peace, guys.


you know

[Gandalf]

Did anyone see Toxic lately ? 

[Drix]

Did anyone see Toxic lately ? 

I see what you did there 

[JDC]

Did anyone see Toxic lately ? 

That explains a lot.

[Clone]

Did anyone see Toxic lately ? 

[Oliver]

"A guy defames the religion of his country. The majority of the people in that country are religious. It pisses a lot of people off and the authorities throw him into jail to prevent him from getting needlessly killed. Liberals cry, an innocent man had his freedom taken away."

"Some bloke types the word "n*gger" into Twitter while heavily intoxicated. He gets arrested for racism, while it's blatantly obvious that he was completely wasted and civilians are unlikely to take action towards him (unless blown out of proportion by the media, of course). Liberals cheer, another nazi is behind bars, where he belongs."


HEY GUYS I HAV A GOOD IDEA IM WRITE A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE BECAUSE RELIGIOUS EXTREMISTS DO NOT READ THE NEWS

[Duel]

What the?

[Matt Murdock]

"A guy defames the religion of his country. The majority of the people in that country are religious. It pisses a lot of people off and the authorities throw him into jail to prevent him from getting needlessly killed. Liberals cry, an innocent man had his freedom taken away."

"Some bloke types the word "n*gger" into Twitter while heavily intoxicated. He gets arrested for racism, while it's blatantly obvious that he was completely wasted and civilians are unlikely to take action towards him (unless blown out of proportion by the media, of course). Liberals cheer, another nazi is behind bars, where he belongs."


HEY GUYS I HAV A GOOD IDEA IM WRITE A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE BECAUSE RELIGIOUS EXTREMISTS DO NOT READ THE NEWS

I type word ''n*gger'' and on my facebook and everywhere I go everyday, Heck I call black people ''Ey, black ! Wassup homie!'' , No one ever took offense to that. I wonder why others act that way. :trust:

[Exterminator]

I type word ''n*gger'' and on my facebook and everywhere I go everyday, Heck I call black people ''Ey, black ! Wassup homie!'' , No one ever took offense to that. I wonder why others act that way. :trust:

Its the third person effect, the people always imagine a "third audience", which they think will be affected by something they dont really mind. It may be any audience they think is weak for this, so the blacks may think that other people will take offense, people may think teenagers may take offense and so on.

99 percent of the time the third person effect is false, and the audience your worried about doesnt really give a shit.

[Gandalf]

The N-word is not nazi vocabulary.

[aleksandar_gojkovic]

I really dont see problem with word black, or black. If that represents racism, i am damned! I mean, according to me, world should be without toughts about racism. You go down the street, see a black guy and you say: "Waddup mah nigga?!" And he replies "Nothing much white boy/ass!"

Racism is just a bunch of crap made up by some colonial morons from europe...

[Zorex116]

im one of the muslim reported for that pages