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Old Mother Ashby > wrote:

> Indonesia is the largest Moslem nation on earth, but there have been no
> reports of any trouble at all. Indonesia has been through unsettling
> times since Soeharto was deposed, and there has been a growth of Saudi
> funded religious extremist groups who have committed some terrible
> atrocities. The Indonesian government has no interest in fomenting
> unrest, neither do the Malaysians, a thoroughly authoritarian lot. Many
> of their citizens may be offended by the idea of the cartoons, but
> that's as far as it goes.

This may be true, about the Indonesians and the Malaysians, but I
don't take it as a sign of their relative peaceful coexistence in a
pluralist world. There are all those church burnings, for instance, in
Indonesia.

Regards,
Ranee

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