Posted on 03/27/2016 5:41:13 PM PDT by OddLane
The Gambia is run by a psychologically disturbed, megalomaniacal dictator, plus it has outposts of Hezbollah/IGRC.
Kyrgyzstan is always on the verge of a civil war, coup, etc., and has tons of Hizb-ut-Tahrir operatives who are lying dormant.
Indonesia is very safe, if you don't happen to be a Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Ahmadiyya.
Tajikistan had a civil war which killed over 50K people in order to prevent it from becoming a porto-islamic State.
I could go on, but you see my point.
And all of the Western countries you mentioned have a terrorism problem specifically because they’ve imported Muslim settlers.
I can only take a line through the one of those countries of which I have personal experience. I have lived and worked in Indonesia for a dozen years, I have many Muslim, Christian, Buddhist and Hindu colleagues and friends all of whom get along in absolute harmony and none of whom feels the remotest bit in danger.
We just enjoyed a very nice Easter weekend which is a public holiday, church bells rang out freely and Christian Indonesians celebrated their holy day utterly unhindered and in perfect peace, the same with the Hindu festival of Nyepi the month before, Chinese New Year before that and Christmas before that, all of which are enjoyed and celebrated as public holidays in Indonesia.
No doubt you can pick on isolated incidents of intolerance against some localised minority, in precisely the way you could in any other country of 250 million people, but the idea that religious minorities are living in terror in Indonesia is absolute balderdash.
If your information on Indonesia is so wrong I can treat the rest of your information with an equally large dose of salt.
No Islam, know peace.
Know Islam, no peace.
Yup, an isolated incident in a remote region of a huge archipelago.
By the same token I could say black people are living in terror in the United States as they are shot dead by police with impunity.
I could link to, oh I don’t know probably several thousand, websites showing how black people are being shot by brutal racist police officers, I could post videos of cities on fire as black people rioted in anger against the horrific oppression they suffered in the US.
None of the links would be fabricated, they would all show genuine cases, however none of them would provide an accurate portrayal of life in the US today.
Thus a handful of churches having problem in a dozen or so local areas in Indonesia do not accurately portray an image of an Indonesia where Christians, Buddhists and Hindus live in terror, as you claim.
I live here, I think I have a much clearer understanding of life in Indonesia than you do.
FWIW, this looks an awful lot like terror to me.
Post all the links you want mate, it won’t change a thing, because I live here and I know the real situation.
Indonesian Christians are no more living in terror than black people are being routinely gunned down with impunity by racist cops in the US.
The US is a very big country in which bad things happen occasionally but on the whole it is a peaceful place.
Ditto Indonesia. End of story.
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