Why was Indonesia’s much-celebrated moderate Islam not able for the perpetrator in this case to withstand the appeal of the Islamic State’s twisted, hijacked version?
“Suspected ISIS Terrorist Stabs Indonesian Security Minister,” Agence France-Presse, October 10, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A suspected ISIS radical stabbed Indonesia’s chief security minister as he was exiting a vehicle Thursday, leaving two deep wounds in his stomach and injuring three others in an assassination attempt on one of the country’s most powerful political figures.
Television images showed security officers wrestling a man and woman to the ground outside a university in Pandeglang on Java island after the attack on Wiranto, who like many Indonesians goes by one name….
The other three victims — a local police chief and two aides — had non-life-threatening injuries.
“They were stabbed but are in stable condition and fully conscious,” said Banten police chief Tomsi Tohir.
The suspects were identified as 31-year-old Syahril Alamsyah and Fitri Andriana, 21. Their relationship was unclear.
Police said Alamsyah had been “exposed to ISIL radicalism”, referring to the Islamic State group, without elaborating.
Eyewitness Madrohim told an AFP reporter that Andriana was dressed in a body-and-face-covering niqab….
Police did not say if either suspect belonged to one of dozens of radical groups that have pledged loyalty to the Islamic State group in Indonesia, which has long struggled with Islamist terrorism….