In Indonesia, Chinese Deity Is Covered in Sheet After Muslims Protest<br />PHILIPPINES South China Sea BRUNEI Pacific Ocean MALAYSIA Celebes Sea EQUATOR Java Sea Tuban INDONESIA Jakarta EAST TIMOR Indian Ocean 1,000 Miles<br />AUSTRALIA PHILIPPINES BRUNEI MALAYSIA Celebes Sea EQUATOR INDONESIA Tuban Java Sea Jakarta Indian Ocean 1,000 Miles AUSTRALIA AUG. 10, 2017<br />Aan Anshori said that Anti-Chinese sentiment has become quite strong<br />10, 2017<br />HONG KONG — A 100-foot statue depicting a Chinese deity was covered with an enormous sheet this past weekend in East Java Province,<br />Indonesia, after Muslims threatened to tear the colossus down amid mounting ethnic and religious tensions across the country.<br />The Islamist campaign against the statue, a depiction of the third-century general Guan Yu, who is worshiped as a god in several Chinese religions, began online<br />and soon spread to the gates of a Chinese Confucian temple in Tuban, near the Java Sea coast, where the figure was erected last month.<br />On social media, Muslims assailed the statue as an "uncivilized" affront to Islam<br />and the island’s "home people," and a mob gathered this week outside the East Java legislature in the city of Surabaya to demand its destruction.<br />Muslims organized that They say that it is showing that China is dominating Indonesia.<br />Indonesia is the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation,<br />and ethnic Chinese — largely Christian, Buddhist or Confucian — make up less than 5 percent of the overall population.
