“Authorities say Islamic State has about 1,200 sympathizers in Indonesia…”
Indonesia is famous for its “moderate” Islam. So how did there come to be 1,200 Islamic State sympathizers there? Why did the Islamic State’s message appeal to so many people? Authorities never ponder the implications of information of this kind.
“Indonesia counter-terrorism forces foil plot to bomb state palace: Police,” Reuters, December 11, 2016:
JAKARTA: Indonesian counter-terrorism forces on Saturday (Dec 10) arrested three people near the capital Jakarta suspected of planning a bomb attack on the presidential palace, a police spokesman said.
The arrests of two men and a woman are the latest in a security crackdown ahead of the New Year holiday season and come amid concerns of a rise in Islamic State-inspired radicalism in the world’s largest Muslim-majority country.
Police raided a dormitory in Bekasi, a town about an hour outside Jakarta, and found an unexploded bomb.
“The plan was to use the bomb at the presidential palace during the change of guard,” Jakarta police spokesman Argo Yuwono said in a statement. He said an investigation was underway.
Police intercepted a letter the woman had intended to send to her parents stating her intention to carry out jihad, the police statement said….
Authorities say Islamic State has about 1,200 sympathizers in Indonesia and dozens are known to be fighting with the hardline Sunni militant group in Syria and Iraq.
Angemon says
Only 1200? That’s odd, I could swear that there were much more than that protesting against that Christian local governor. I guess all those thousands must be “moderate” then…
Mirren10 says
Good catch, Angemon.
Religion of PISS says
Agree! the 1200 number is just extremely UNDER stated.
There are certain number of pedophiles who have committed pedophilia in US however there are very large number of twisted people who have never committed physical act of pedophilia still they enthusiastically addicted to child porn, the same can be said about moderate Indonesia.
When hundred thousands of people showed off to the street demanding the imprisonment of a christian local governor who criticized the propagation of discriminatory interpretation of Al-Maidah 51 of Quran about prohibiting non-muslim to be leader and then Indonesian government has granted and bowed to the request so this christian governor would be trialed before the court this December ….. undoubtedly it speaks volume about the ‘real number’ of fundamentalist in this nation.
Imagine if in US , a public officer like Gov. Boby Jindal was criticizing some particular Bible scripture used often by KKK to justify the doctrine of white supremacy then because of that around 200 hundred thousand (at minimum) of people showed up to the street demanding his imprisonment on the base of ‘hate speech’ against white christians and then US government would grant and bow to the request by prosecuting Mr.Jindal followed by bringing him before the court to be trialed, wouldn’t that mean the radicals be more than just a thousands?
DFD says
My how racist!