Indonesia: Angry Muslim Crowd Attacks Java Churches -- BBC
More than 1,000 Muslim protesters have stormed a courthouse and burned two churches in central Java, Indonesia.
The attacks in Temanggung happened after a Christian man was sentenced to five years in jail for distributing leaflets deemed insulting to Islam.
Indonesian police said the crowd considered the sentence too lenient and were demanding the death penalty.
The incident came two days after Muslim villagers in western Java killed three members of a minority Islamic sect.
A police spokesman told the BBC that the angry crowd began attacking the court building in Temanggung after the verdict was read out.
The violence spread to surrounding neighbourhoods where two churches were set on fire and a third was damaged.
Police fired warning shots into the air to disperse the crowds.
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