colin wrote: > > > I don't understand this either. Isn't Indonesia a Muslim country? > > 95% of Bali is Hindu.
This is in today's NYTimes: "In recent weeks, top Indonesian officials who had denied the problem in the past had begun to concede that the world's most-populous Muslim nation faces a terrorist threat. Saturday's attack, in which many of the victims were foreign holidaymakers, seems to mark a turning point." It's this kind of report that makes me think of Indonesia as a "Muslim" country. At least from this article today, the Hindu population on Bali doesn't seem to the be reason for the attack there. This is more from today's article: "Although Indonesia overwhelmingly embraces a moderate form of Islam, radical groups have raised their profile in the last year, exploiting widespread anti-American sentiment as well as divisions within the government. "Some Islamic militants were pressing a theory that the United States had masterminded Saturday's attack as a means to manipulate the Indonesian government and to strengthen its argument for a war against Islam." For the full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/14/international/14CND-INDO.html?ex=1035625988&ei=1&en=b7aad11fd9e4b803 So, it comes back again to anti-American sentiment. It's tragic that Bush and his co-leaders are not willing to look at that (or so it seems anyway). Debra Shea
