Returning the favor? Christians behead two Muslims.
Just came across this story of 17 Christians convicted of murder and other various 
crimes. It seems these murders were revenge for the executions of three Christians by the Indonesian government last year.
The three executed Christians had been found guilty of leading a militia that killed at least 70 Muslims during a 1999-2002 religious war on the island that led to the deaths of at least 1,000 people from both faiths.
I wonder how long the Muslims will be allowed to murder innocent Jews and Christians for the simple fact they are not Muslim, without equally violent crimes in retaliation from the victims own religions.
In other words, say Muslims kill 20 Christians in Iraq. Are we going to get to a point where that slaughter is met with the slaughter of 20 Muslims in a Christian dominated country by Christian radicals?
Christians didn’t get to be the dominant religion by being nice, Christians had their dark 
days just like the Muslims are having today. But will Christians and Jews go back in time and start fighting fire with fire? And if so, could it possibly make the Muslim suicide bombers think twice before blowing up innocent civilians?Â
Remember the movie swordfish? John Travolta says something like “they bomb a church, we bomb 20″, “they kill a school teacher, we blow up one of their schools”. Is that where we are headed? It’s not a nice thing to think about, but it’s certainly possible the darkness in Christianity can come out if provoked.
And just FYI, I’m not a big fan of any religion. I feel religion causes lots of harm to society but also brings much needed love and charity. It’s a double edged sword. However, with Islam, the ratio of good to bad activity is so slanted towards bad, I feel the religion as a whole is bad. Yes I know there are good Muslims, but if you had a choice to rid the world of just one religion, what would you choose? I know what my choice would be 
A dozen Christian men were convicted Thursday and sentenced to up to 14 years in jail for beating to death and beheading two Muslims to avenge the government executions of three Christians in Indonesia last year.
Five other Christians received eight-year terms for burying the pair, who were set upon by a mob as they drove though a Christian neighborhood on Sulawesi island a day after the Sept. 22, 2006, executions of Fabianus Tibo and two other Christian militants.
The three executed Christians had been found guilty of leading a militia that killed at least 70 Muslims during a 1999-2002 religious war on the island that led to the deaths of at least 1,000 people from both faiths.
The South Jakarta District Court found all 17 men guilty Thursday of violating anti-terrorism laws.
“It has been proven that they carried out acts of terror together and tried to hide the crime by hiding the bodies,” said head judge Ahmad Subari.
Two of the 12 found guilty of murder were sentenced to 14 years in jail each, while the other 10 got 12 years.
It was not clear whether any of defendants intended to appeal.
The executions of the three Christian militiamen took place despite an appeal by Pope Benedict XVI to spare the men and claims by human rights groups that their trials were unfair. The revenge killings were the bloodiest incident in several days of protests at the executions.
More than 90 percent of Indonesia’s 220 million people are Muslims, but Sulawesi has a roughly equal number of Muslims and Christians. Earlier this year, police rounded up several Islamic militants accused in bombings and shootings since 2002, and the island has been peaceful since then.