MEDAN - FURIOUS Indonesian women fought off a mob of armed Islamists after the religious fanatics tried to evict a mother and her newborn baby from a house, police and reports said on Tuesday.
Dozens of angry housewives forced the Islamists to flee for safety and attacked their leader's vehicle during the incident near Medan, northern Sumatra, reports said.
'What the housewives did here was spontaneous and it was because we care for our neighbours who are in trouble,' a witness identified as Evi was quoted as saying in the Jakarta Globe.
The melee erupted on Saturday when the women rushed to the defence of their neighbour, Nurhayati, and her two-week-old baby.
A group of about 12 stick-wielding men from the Islamic Defenders Front - a notoriously violent vigilante group that is tolerated by the authorities - had attacked her house over a land dispute.
Provincial Front leader Darma Bakti Ginting claims ownership of the land on which his cousin Nurhayati's house was built. -- AFP
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