@epg96

6 months ago

As an Indonesian, Islam didn't really come with trade like most of popular historians believe especially to what happened with my ethnic groups, an indigenous ethnic group in the middle of North Sumatran jungles and Bukit Barisan mountain range near the largest vulcanic lake in the world. In 1539, Acehnese Sultanate invaded my ancestors's land when one of our king refused Islam. Aceh faced difficulties during the war then they bought & hired Ottoman weapons & mercenaries to invade us, our people freaked out then asked Portugal to help 'em to stop the invasion of Aceh and Ottoman Empire. In the 1810s during Padri War, an Islamic civil war in Minangkabau, Padri soldiers heard a cannibalistic pagan tribes in the middle of North Sumatra who remained as pagans, the Padris sent envoys to our kingdom to demand our people to leave our paganistic religion and became Muslims but got rejected. After the rejection, Padri soldiers invaded our kingdom and massacred 200.000 people and arrested our king, when he refused Islam, they executed our king for not accepting Islam, they brutally ransacked our villages/cities & massacred my ethnic groups who refused their religion. They were failed to conquer us when a cholera outbreak happened thanks to dead bodies that leaked cholera. After they failed to conquer us, our ancestors were devastated after watching our ransacked kingdoms and dead relatives even cholera outbreak happened and severely decimated our population. My ancestors became hostile towards outsiders/foreigners. Years later, a couple of US Baptist missionarists came and introduced Christianity. Too bad, the locals thought they were another hostile foreigners/outsiders and they caught & ate them. Before Christianity came, my people were pagans who had cannibalistic culture/rituals. My ancestors conducted cannibalism towards people who did terrible crimes such as rape, murder, or treason. A defendant was brought in front of judge, if the judge found the defendant conducted heinous crimes, he/she would be tied on an altar then a shaman who was also executioner would recited some mantras and slashed the defendant's body before beheading him/her and being eaten by people. POWs were also eaten back then. Before Christianity, my ancestors believed if we ate people, it'd grant us magical strength. We also did child sacrifice ritual by sacrificing li'l boys to gain black magic. Besides cannibalism and child sacrifice, my ancestors were known as jewellery makers and weavers. A German missionarist came and introduced Christianity among my people. He built schools, hospitals, etc. But a lot of kingdom citizens hated him coz Christianity could destroy our culture and religion such as our cannibalistic rituals. There're some reports that some people tried to assassinate him to stop Christianity from destroying our old faiths and culture but failed. Cannibalism and child sacrifice were eventually banned when Dutch colonial regime imposed anti cannibalism law towards us after annexing us in the 1907. If Christianity never came, perhaps my people would still do capital punishment in form of cannibalism and child sacrifice. Unlike other Indonesian regions which were colonized for 350 years, we only got conquered in 1907 when Dutch soldiers succesfully assassinated our priest king. Dutch faced difficulties at fighting a cannibalistic nation in the middle of Sumatran jungles near the largest lake in Indonesia

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