not sure how you can write about SE Asian moslems without addressing the terror campaign punctuated by beheadings of Buddhist teachers in South Thailand, and culminating in the overthrow of the PM by Moslem general, who wants to give the region some sort of Moslem-dominated autonomy. Is the bad acting in the region the reason why John Howard has such a similar perspective on Iraq that President Bush has?
I have a Malaysian friend. He's one of the "good Muslims" and I agree whole-heartedly that while radical Islamic doctrine is a threat to 21st century Western civilization, not all Muslims are radicals, and the Indonesians and the Malaysians are proof.
Remember, the Arabs don't have that much respect for them. After all, they're Muslim brothers, but they're not Arabs!
Wasn't their just an article here on FR detailing how Indonesia misappropriated tsunami aid for some nefarious purpose? It seems I remember something about Christian girls being slaughtered as well in Indonesia.
BS.
I was just in Malaysia. They have passed all kinds of laws to make Muslims preferred citizens - Bumiputras. This means something like "Son of the soil" in Malay. A Bumiputra is a native Malay and a Muslim.
Malaysia is a unique country. Only about 50% of the population are Malay. The rest are made up of Chinese Malays and Indians.
The native Malays are Muslims and only they can be Bumiputras. They get special preference for jobs. They get disounts on home purchases. Mortgage relief. They get higher returns on bank deposits - all by racist laws designed to promote the interests of the Bumiputra over the "other" Malays.
They have passed laws making it impossible, not only to build a new church, but to even remodel an existing one. Mosques experience no such legal hurdles.
The list goes on - in essence, Malaysia is tolerable for Dhimmis - if you don't mind being a second class citizen, paying more and getting less.
Some of the 9/11 hijackers were friendly smiling taxi drivers.
"We have made it. We beat colonialism, we beat nationalism, we beat war, we beat poverty, we beat the Asian crisis ... let's show you around and make money together."
And then, let's stop at the local Catholic school for young girls and cut off their heads!
An interesting article about Muslims in Indonesia and Malaysia but I don't know how accurate it is.
Not very accurate. It is propaganda, just what they want you to believe. If you think they don't know how to use propaganda, just check out the product of ther schools where they teach hate, suicide bombing, and second class citizebship for anyone but Muslim males.
> An interesting article about Muslims in Indonesia and Malaysia but I don't know how accurate it is.
In a thread several years ago a Freeper said, "Indonesia is 5000 islands with nothing in common except its currency and a hatred of everything Dutch and Christian." Considering the Bali bombings of 02 and 05, and the fact that Bashir is now a free man, I think he was right.
Directionality? Sounds like a word out of a propaganda school. Anyone who uses such a word is not to be trusted.
Malaysian Muslims clearly think they are superior to infidels, from what I observed. I worked and went to school with them.
Taqiyya alert!
Taqiyya and the Myth of Moderate Islam
http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/3518
Taqiyya and kitman: The role of Deception in Islamic terrorism
http://www.ci-ce-ct.com/Feature%20articles/02-12-2002.asp
Taqiyya and kitman: Deception in Islamic warfare
http://www.whataretheysaying.org/archives/001336.html
It would be a mistake trusting them. They may be jovial at the moment. Long term, who knows?