JIHAD FOR PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Future generations of Indonesians now in high schools and universities will turn Indonesia into a hostile Islamic state governed by Sharia law. President Widodo knows that. Lubang Buaya will be used again.

Thirty years ago there was fear that the Indonesians would attack Papua New Guinea and Australia. It was probably an irrational fear as Indonesia faced deep economic problems that followed independence.

But there were those who reassured us that Indonesian people followed a peaceful and tolerant brand of Islam that arrived in country with traders not invading hordes.

But we were told that times may change with the rise of militant Islam that looked for conquest beyond their borders.

That time may now be coming regardless of the peaceful intentions of the Indonesian Government.

The last 20 years has seen the rise of holy war or jihad among world Moslems at the hand of Ayotollah Khomeiny of Iran.  A report on H2 TV channel advised that the failed Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was a key watershed event.

The USA supported the Moslem mujahedeen and encouraged Moslems of the USA to unite but this has rebounded against the USA when the Afghan war ended and Moslems were already united in-country against the USA that made a rod for its own back.

With the catastrophic 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centre in New York, the rise of the so-called Islamic State (IS) and seizure of Middle-East land to form the Moslem Caliphate, the Jihad spread around the world.

Ripe for the picking is the Republic of Indonesia, home to the greatest population of Moslems.

Already the province of Aceh is Moslem and following Sharia law. Australians will never forget the Bali bombing in which over a hundred young Australians died. Sharia Law will be the law of Indonesia within the decade.

West Papua is an unknown quantity with the Melanesian population being Christian and seeking self-determination. They may be ripe for Moslem extremist genocide.

Times are changing if media reports are to be believed. We hear that there is a strong rise in Islamic consciousness in Indonesian high schools and universities with students talking of jihad. Students are being radicalized.

A report today on ABC was that new mosques stand on every corner of Indonesia funded by Saudi Arabia.

A report last week stated that PNG young men were travelling to West Papua to learn more about Islam. Some may well come back to PNG as radicalized bomb makers. This surely is a wake-up call for the PNG Government.

Australia and the United States are massively raising their aid support to Pacific nations. This may be a two pronged response to the economic expansion of China and possible Islamic extremism in Pacific nations.

Does all this put new light on the responses to Moslems Rohingya in Myanmar and the Chinese response to Uighurs in Sinkiang?

What of the response of Indonesia President Widodo to the planned shift of the Australian consulate to Jerusalem? He is supporting Islam and knows what side his bread is buttered on. 

But he and the Prime Minister of Malaysia are in a better position to know the dangers of Islamic redical extremism than the Prime mInister of Australia

Anti-semitism is in the background at all times. Churches in this country support Israel by belief in Old Testament teach.ings. 

Discretion is the better part of valour in an age of right wing extremism. PNG churches suffer from Christian faith interspersed with political naivety.