Indonesian Muslim Mob Attacks Homes of Minority Islamic Sect

Indonesia--Nearly 1,000 Muslims armed with machetes attacked a housing complex belonging to a minority Islamic sect in Indonesia Saturday, some of them throwing Molotov cocktails, police and local media said.

At least six people were injured in the attack and four people were held for questioning, radio and television reports said.

It was the latest in a series of raids on the Ahamadiyah sect, denounced as heretical by mainstream Muslim groups, since the country's powerful Islamic Scholars Council issued a fatwa, or edict, against it last year.