THE group suddenly arrived near the office of a people’s credit bank in Temanggung, Central Java. They blended in with the crowd, which was angry after the court gave a five-year prison sentence to Antonius Richmond Bawengan, found guilty in a religious defamation case. “Come on, let’s go west,” said one person in the group. “Our target is not the court, but the church.”

Saimin, an activist of the United Islam Community Forum who was