Posted on 11/19/2006 2:35:28 PM PST by Sam Hill
From demonstrations in and around Jakarta, Indonesia:
Gee, and only sixty short years ago our soldiers were fighting to keep these people from being enslaved by the Japanese. And then a few years later, from the Communists.
How time flies.
A "Religion Of Peace And Tolerance" ping.
Those could be pictures from the 2004 Democratic National Convention.
Boy, Bush's decision to send out several naval ships, such as the USNS Mercy, thus denying those services to our fighting men and women along with wasting hundreds of millions of dollars and deployment time to provide "meals on wheels" and thus win hearts and minds after the tsunami sure was a good idea (sarcasm off)
Gee, and only 2 years ago I was sending these rats money for Tsunami aid.
Hmmm....arnt earthquakes & tsunamis becoming more frequent here? Sorry folks, no aid for you
I see the DNC got their message out! I hope they are proud of themselves.
I've seen many of those exact same graphics they are using on their posters on U.S. left websites. You can't argue that there's no consequence to publishing that kind of material.
Wow. The muslim women there get to show their noses, eyes, and lips. Doesn't that inflame the guys, or,well--okay I took a second look--I guess it's okay.
I'm sure glad that I didn't.
http://photos.friendster.com/photos/94/09/28579049/28116387631888m.jpg
Others gathered at the al-Azhar mosque, Jakarta's second largest, to hear speeches by Islamic hard-liners denouncing Bush and U.S. foreign policy.
"Why is the U.S. backing Israel, which has bombed Palestinians and Lebanon," Tiffatul Sembiring, president of the Justice and Prosperity Party, asked the crowd of 3,000 who spilled from the mosque into the courtyard
"Bush is a terrorist," he said to cheers. "He's killed people in Afghanistan and Iraq."
Indonesia's leader, meanwhile, wants U.S. help in fighting poverty and a spiraling bird flu outbreak that has killed 56 people -- a third of the world's total. He is also eager to see American investors return to his country, which remains desperately poor eight years after the ouster of former dictator Suharto.
http://www.liputan6.com/files/politik/pic/160306apks.jpg
The slogan next to Osama bin Laden’s pictures says "Kill Bush Get Heaven."
Indeed. As I looked at the pictures, I had the strangest sense of dejà vu -- from the Dem convention!
The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS; Indonesian: Partai Keadilan Sejahtera; also Justice and Prosperity Party) is a political party in Indonesia. The party calls for a greater role for Islam in public life. PKS is currently led by Tifatul Sembiring.
The party was established as the Justice Party on July 20, 1998, with Nurmahmudi Ismail as its first president. The Justice Party was reconstituted as the Prosperous Justice Party in April 2003 after the Justice Party failed to meet the required two percent of votes in the 1999 election that it needed to contest the 2004 election.
The party has been associated with the Egypt-based Muslim Brotherhood; several of its founders attended Brotherhood-related schools.[6] The PKS is a prominent supporter of Abu Bakar Bashir, the Muslim cleric who was convicted of conspiracy for his role in the 2002 Bali bombing, arguing that was not involved in the bombing, and that he deserved release due to his poor health.[7]
The organization stages rallies supporting the inhabitants of Palestine in their conflict with Israel, and against the influence of the United States both in the Middle East and in Indonesia.[8]
I wouldn't have trouble believing those were the only four words in that poor wretch's vocabulary.
Why the President of the US sees any point in visiting a Muslim country is beyond me, or, for that matter, why Pope Benedict XVI wants to visit Turkey after a Turk tried to kill his predecessor.
Hidayat Nur Wahid, founder of Indonesian radical Islamic party PKS, addresses a gathering
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.image?id=6580
The common wisdom that democracy will help subdue the Islamic militantism is being questioned in Indonesia. While the world condemns the terrorists who have struck Indonesia in recent years, Sadanand Dhume reports that one of Indonesia's own political parties embraces those terrorists' Islamist ideology. The Justice and Prosperity Party (PKS) shares the radical beliefs of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood—and is scoring troubling success for those beliefs in Indonesia. PKS is riding a wave of Islamic conservatism that has overwhelmed Indonesia's traditional religious liberalism in the past three decades, and that now threatens the nation's success in a globalizing world. Embracing modern technology but rejecting modern values, PKS is actually more dangerous, writes Dhume, than the militant Jemaah Islamiyah because its apparent moderation is deceptive. The politicians of Justice and Prosperity can do more harm from within the Indonesian government than the terrorists of Jemaah Islamiyah could ever do from without. If Indonesia embraces the Justice and Prosperity Party's brand of radical Islam, argues Dhume, the nation will be on the same fundamentalist path that terrorist bombs tried to bring about. – YaleGlobal
it draws its ideology and organizational structure from Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood—whose vision spawned radical Islamist movements like Hamas, Sudan’s National Islamic Front and (most famously) al Qaeda. While Jemaah Islamiyah stands for suicide bombings, the Justice Party believes in peaceful protests. Yet both subscribe to the same fundamentally anti-modern worldview. Indeed, in the long term, it’s the political party—and not the terrorist outfit—that poses the greater threat to Indonesia’s pluralism, stability and economic growth.
The magnitude of that threat is most clear in the ideology of the Justice Party's greatest political inspiration, the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood's ideology is encapsulated in its slogan: “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Koran is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.” The movement's most influential thinker was the virulently anti-American Egyptian literary critic Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966). For him, as for Islamists everywhere, God’s laws (sharia) were superior to man’s laws. Islam belonged everywhere: in the classroom and the boardroom; in banks, in courts, in movie theaters.
Why do these Democrats hate Bush so?
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