and they are at it again!

Saturday, May 01, 2010 07:07 AM Jakarta

FPI dissolves training for transvestites


Dozens of Islamic Defender Front (FPI) activists stormed into a hotel in Depok, West Java on Friday to dissolve a human rights training program for transvestites from across the country.

The raid took place as 26 participants of the program were attending a class delivered by a National Commission on Human Rights instructor, kompas.com reported.

“Suddenly the door was smashed, the glasses were tossed around and people started to call for God’s help,” Seruni, a participant from Jakarta, said.

The rights body evacuated all the participants from the hotel to the commission’s office in Menteng, Central Jakarta.

“What mistake did we commit? We learned bout human rights in order to defend our rights as a minority group,” another participant, Nadine, said, adding that five police officers who were in the hotel during the raid did nothing to prevent the attackers.
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“Perhaps they [attackers] thought we would hold a pageantry contest,” Nadine said.

The training is scheduled to finish on Saturday, but following the incident the rights commission has not yet decided whether to continue the program.

(this x the JakPos)

Raid on transgender workshop necessary: FPI
Hasyim Widhiarto, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Wed, 05/05/2010 5:32 PM | Jakarta
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Depok leader of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) Habib Idrus Al-Ghodri refused Wednesday to take the blame for the group’s move to dissolve a trangsender workshop at Bumi Wiyata Hotel last week, saying the action was necessary to bring the transgender individuals back to "the right track."

"Islam has a place for people who naturally have double sexual organs but not for those who intentionally exchange their given gender," Idrus told reporters after completing a questioning session at Depok police headquarter.

According to Idrus, organizations like the National Commission for Human Rights (Komnas HAM), is supposed to work hand in hand with religious leaders and institutions to intensively urge and encourage the transvestites to live a normal life as real men.

"These people are sick, so it is an obligation to help them heal themselves," he said.

Dozens of FPI members stormed the human rights workshop for transgender individuals on Friday.

The workshop was about to start when the members banged the doors, shouting the name of God and destroying some of the hotel's property.

They suspected the event would turn into a beauty pageant.

Following report from the hotel management, Depok police questioned Idrus at its headquarter on Wednesday.

Depok police chief Comr. Ade Rahmat Idnal said the police would then question a dozen of FPI members who allegedly took part in the raid.
(x JakPos)

Raid on transgender workshop necessary: FPI
The Jakarta Post, Depok | Thu, 05/06/2010 10:51 AM | City
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DEPOK: The chief of the Depok branch of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI), Habib Idrus Al-Ghodri, on Wednesday objected to any moves to bring the group to justice for its assault on a transgender workshop last week, claiming the raid was necessary to bring the workshop participants “back to the right path”.

“Islam has a place for people who naturally have double sexual organs, but not for those who intentionally exchange their given gender,” Idrus told reporters after a questioning session at Depok Police headquarters.

Dozens of FPI members had stormed the human-rights workshop for transgender individuals,
at the Bumi Wiyata Hotel in Depok, last Friday. FPI allegedly thought the event was a beauty pageant. — JP


(Anyone still believes their stories? Somewhere in the Christian Bible it sais "judge thee not, for it is high to be a judge" if I am not mistaken, in the Holy Quran it sais Allah alone is the Judge, so is the FPI setting themselves up next to God-Allah? siK.