JAKARTA – Disturbing video emerged on Monday of a bloody religious mob attack in Indonesia that killed three members of a minority Muslim sect, showing extremists beating and stoning their victims to death. The incident, involving more than 1,000 Muslims who stormed a house in West Java on Sunday to stop the minority Ahmadiyah Islamic sect from holding worship, has been condemned by the government and rights activists.
Footage of the attack — which came at the start of “interfaith harmony week” in the mainly Muslim country — shows police doing nothing as scores of Islamic fanatics go berserk with stones, knives and sticks. Shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest) and “kafir” (infidel), the mob brush aside a lone police officer and launch a sustained attack on the house, as a small group of Ahmadis try briefly to defend the property.
Defenceless and half-naked Ahmadi men are then shown being beaten and stoned to death in the mud outside the house. Their bodies are pelted with stones and desecrated as members of the mob laugh and take pictures. Throughout the attack police are either absent or standing amid the mob doing nothing to intervene. After the attack a lone police officer is seen attempting to stop people beating and stoning one of the dead men, but he is ignored.
