Despite making up 85% of the population, Muslims are claiming victimhood status to justify intimidation of ethnic minorities in Jakarta's election. Apparently cheating by nonMuslims is the only explanation for Muslims violating the Koranic command to only support Muslim leaders.

Are there any Nazis or "anti-everything crwods" doing this?

Jakarta election: Islamists to swamp polling booths

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Islamists have vowed to defy police orders and deploy tens of thousands of “guards” to polling booths across Jakarta in today’s bitterly contested gubernatorial election run-off, raising the ­prospect of voter intimidation and a possible showdown with security forces.

The Indonesian government has promised to double the ­number of security forces for the second-round vote to 60,000, compared to 29,000 for the February election in which none of the three candidates vying for the critical governor’s job secured an outright majority.

Today’s final voting round pits the once almost-unassailable ­incumbent Basuki Tjahaja “Ahok” Purnama, an ethnic-Chinese and Christian, against Islamic scholar and former education minister Anies Baswedan.

Support for Ahok has been whittled away by an ugly race-and religion-tinged campaign waged by opposition political forces and fringe Islamist groups who last year organised three massive ­rallies in central Jakarta, the ­largest attracting half a million people demanding he be jailed for blasphemy.

The most recent polls however suggest the election result is too close to call, with Ahok trailing Mr Anies by just one percentage point.

Police yesterday deployed teams to all major toll gates leading into the capital, as well as roads and ferries connecting Jakarta with other provinces, to prevent the promised mass mobilisation of Muslims seeking to guard ­“vulnerable” polling stations against voter fraud.

Organisers of the so-called Al-Maidah Outing say they have identified 1400 polling stations for particular scrutiny, where Muslim voters were in the majority but Ahok received the largest number of votes in the first round poll. Muslim voters make up 85 per cent of Jakarta’s 7.1 million eligible voters.

They say they expect 100,000 supporters to man polling ­stations, despite warnings from police that any attempt to do so was illegal and would result in prosecution.

Al-Maidah Outing chairman Ansufri Idrus Sambo, an Islamic boarding school imam, denied the intention was to intimidate voters into supporting the Muslim candidate, notwithstanding his hopes of stationing up to 100 supporters at key polling booths.

But he said his guards would be encouraged to evict “strangers” from polling stations — a threat some have interpreted as ­targeting Indonesians of Chinese heritage.

“If there is intimidation, fraud, some strangers with no right to vote trying to vote, we record them, we evict them, we boo at them, we warn and report them to election officials and police,” he told The Australian.

Imam Ansufri said he was ­motivated by the first round election results in which Ahok secured 43 per cent of the vote, the highest number of all three candidates.

“We asked ourselves; ‘Why aren’t Muslims following al-Maidah?’ And we came to the conclusion that they were intimidated and that the election was rigged,” he said. “We came to various ­Muslim-majority areas where the non-Muslim candidate won. We talked to the local youths, the local Imams, the local figures. They all said there were people not from the area who voted in their polling stations.”

The Al-Maidah Outing group takes its name from a verse in the Koran which Islamic conservatives interpret as prohibiting ­Muslims from electing non-­Muslims to public office.

The al-Maidah 51 verse has been widely-cited this election to turn voters against Ahok, and to fuel a successful campaign to have him tried for blasphemy for ­appearing to question its ­interpretation during a September speech to constituents.

Prosecutors will deliver their sentence recommendation against Ahok tomorrow, a day after the election. Under Indonesia’s blasphemy laws he could serve a maximum five years in jail if convicted.

Leaders of the more moderate Nahdlatul Ulama have said the Al-Maidah Outing is unnecessary. “We already have election bodies that organise and supervise the elections,” NU chairman Said Aqil Siradj said on Monday.

“We also have witnesses ­dispatched by both candidates. Let’s just trust them.”

But a spokesman for the ­vigilante Islamic Defenders’ Front, a driving force behind the anti-Ahok movement, said his members would be supporting the Al-Maidah Outing to “ensure Muslims are not afraid to practise their faith”.

So now all the hardliners have to do is chuck a tanty to force political change.

Is that Islamic style democracy?