U.S. FUNDAMENTALIST SCHEME FOILED
Tsunami Orphans Won't Be Sent to Christian Home

From the Washington Post courtesy of First Draft:

The group's plan to raise children from Muslim families in a Christian home struck a nerve in Indonesia, which had regulations in place even before the tsunami requiring orphans to be raised by people of their own religion. This rule was adopted in large part to ensure that Muslim children were not converted.

In response to fears that Acehnese tsunami orphans would be trafficked, the Indonesian Department of Social Affairs adopted a further prohibition on people taking children out of the province. Officials said the only exemptions were for relatives.

Despite these restrictions, radical Muslim activists in Indonesia have warned against the operations of some Christian relief groups, arguing that their ultimate motive is to convert the Acehnese away from Islam, which has long been a part of the province's cultural identity. Though most Indonesians do not share the radicals' extreme agenda, these concerns have resonated among many in the country, who remain suspicious of foreigners and particularly Westerners.

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Before WorldHelp changed its Web site, it contained an appeal for funds that described the Aceh people as "strict Sunni Muslims" who "have been very instrumental in spreading Islam throughout Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia." Normally, it said, "Banda Aceh is closed to foreigners and closed to the gospel. But, because of this catastrophe, our partners there are earning the right to be heard and providing entrance for the gospel." The fundraising appeal went on to say that WorldHelp was working with Christian partners in Indonesia who want to "plant Christian principles as early as possible" in the 300 Muslim children.

"These children are homeless, destitute, traumatized, orphaned, with nowhere to go, nowhere to sleep and nothing to eat. If we can place them in a Christian children's home, their faith in Christ could become the foothold to reach the Aceh people," it said.

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So what that means is that the Indonesian Islamic radicals are absolutely correct when they charge that this fundamentalist missionary group's offer to help comes with strings attached. It's one thing to try to convert a teenager or an adult to Christianity. It is entirely another, however, to take helpless children from another culture into a Western indoctrination program disguised as charity. What really drives me nuts about things like this is that these WorldHelp bozos no doubt see themselves as archetypal victims of anti-Christian persecution. They just don't get it. Imperialistic indoctrination? It's all good.

You know, the same thing has been going on in Iraq since the invasion. The Evangelicals are over there like carpetbaggers during the Reconstruction.

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