Craven Liar of the Week
By Fretting over President Bush’s visit to Indonesia, Pam Oshry runs the following preface to a stream of gory photos, which she publishes for no discernible reason other than to whip her readers into a mindless, racist frenzy:
The price for being a Christian…. in Indonesia…and soon to be Malaysia (reported in the local daily news yesterday and today.)
Death for abandoning (lapsing) Muslims and for Christians who preach in Malay.
Indonesia. An Islamic democracy. Is Islam compatible with democracy? These pictures were forwarded to me from a friend who knows a Christian in Indonesia……I cannot reveal too much or I will jeopardize the lives of those that smuggled these pics out. I am running them beneath the fold as they are too graphic to run on the main page. I am running them so the world will know and see that Indonesians are NOT the friend of anyone who is not Muslim.
The photos are indeed horrifying — and yet, as several of her commenters pointed out, they in fact date from an ethnic conflict on Borneo from the mid-1990s to around 2000-2001.
None of this, of course, detered Oshry from initially responding with the claim that the photos “ran in the local paper last week and more will be published shortly at great personal risk to those communicating it to the West.”
Oshry should also be aware that Microsoft is giving away free stock if she’ll forward this post to 25 friends.