Christians face jail for giving treats to children of Muslims

Times Online reported Three Indonesian housewives face up to five years in prison for allegedly trying to lure Muslim children into Christianity at a Sunday School “Happy Week”. Senior Christian figures claim that the prosecution is politically motivated and part of a campaign of persecution by Islamic fundamentalists against Indonesia’s Christian minority — about 8 per cent of the Muslim-majority population. The three women faced threats from a yelling mob of 150 fundamentalists during a court appearance in West Java last week. It is claimed that the women were teaching lessons in reading and writing to mixed classes of Christian and Muslim children,

What is wrong in teaching children to read and write? Are the fundamentalists afraid the Muslim children might actually read the Koran, and know they are lying about what it says?

taking them on trips to parks and swimming pools, and rewarding them with treats such as pencils for memorising Christian prayers and Bible verses. Many of the alleged offences took place at a special Happy Week earlier this year, although the lessons began in 2003. A claim of “Christianisation” was made against the women by a chapter of the Indonesian Council of Muslim Clerics, which alleged that they enticed Muslim children to participate and that they had tried to convert the children to Christianity by giving them gifts.

The really big treat is that they would be guaranteed eternal life in Paradise just for accepting Christ as their Saviour, and they would not have to blow themselves, and fellow Muslims, up in a misguided attempt to get into Paradise