[sagar]

Wasn’t Banda Acheh was wiped out by the tsunami?

[deport]

It was the Boxing Day tsunami, which hit the morning of December 26, 2004,
after a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, in Indonesia.

[BenLurkin]

You’d think they would have got the message and turned to God. But they stuck with Islam instead.

[JudyinCanada]

Yup - IIRC, billions of dollars in aid went their way. I scratched my head at the time. Most of these people would slit our throats, given half a chance. Very hard-core islamists.

[Berosus]

“Wasn’t Banda Acheh was wiped out by the tsunami?”

*****

Yes, and I thought the Acheh Islamists believed Allah was no longer on their side because of the tsunami. Their long-standing separatist movement gave up shortly after the disaster.