This is going to get ugly. Hard line Islamic group Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) based in Indonesia is allegedly planning a huge push to stop Stefani's concert from happening in Jakarta.
Stefani also faced pressure in Korea from Christian groups however the show went on without any violence and injuries. What may happen in Jakarta though is really scary. Hard line Islamic groups aren't known for their peaceful resolutions and are fanatical when it comes to their religion. Indonesia is the most populous Muslim country in the world.
FPI’s leader Rizieq Syihab furthered the devil worshiping claims, adding
that the singer was planning to build Lucifer’s kingdom in Indonesia.
“If she performed, I will send Muslims in Jakarta to stop the concert,” he said in Temanggung.
“If she performed, I will send Muslims in Jakarta to stop the concert,” he said in Temanggung.
FPI chairman Rizieq Shihab had previously urged Gaga to call off the
show, telling The Jakarta Post, “If you want chaos in Jakarta, just
continue to hold the concert.”
What does he mean by that? Exactly how does the FPI plan to stop the concert? The police in Jakarta are recommending that the show be stopped but that would be up to Gaga and her people. It was in Bali, Indonesia, a predominately Hindu island of the Muslim nation, that several nightclubs were bombed because of so called Western impurity. Hundreds died and the carnage was horrific.
Could a repeat of the Bali bombings be a possible threat that concert goers have to worry about?
“Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
