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Thursday, March 09, 2006

MUSLIMS BOMB HINDU TEMPLE IN INDONESIA

AP:
POSO, INDONESIA - A small bomb exploded Friday outside a Hindu temple on an Indonesian island that has been plagued by religious violence, wounding a man who was guarding the compound, police said. Hundreds of onlookers gathered around the temple after the blast, which seriously wounded the guard.

Some 3,000 security personnel have been deployed to safeguard Poso, a city 1,000 miles northeast of Jakarta, since last year following a spate of attacks targeting Christians. Though Indonesia is predominantly Muslim, a large percentage of Poso's population is Christian and a small minority is Hindu. There were fierce battles between members of the two faiths in 2001 and 2002 that killed about 1,000 people.
FLASHBACK (2005):
A Christian man has been killed by decapitation in the latest attack against non-Muslims in the sectarian violence-hit eastern Indonesian town of Poso, police said on Friday. ...Poso has seen intermittent communal violence between Muslims and Christians since 2000 despite a government-brokered peace accord agreed two years ago.

Thursday's incidents followed the unsolved shooting of a man in the grounds of a church in Poso last month. ...

Also last month, a Hindu woman was killed and two Christian men wounded when a group fired randomly into houses in the region on the same day that two Christians were hacked to death near the provincial capital Palu.
All this violence is Muslim versus non-Muslim. Do you think this has ANYTHING to do with Iraq or Israel or Halliburton!? You know what I think? I think that if-and-when Indonesia's Christians and Hindu's start fighting the Left'll still be blaming BusHitler and the Jews - I mean neo-cons!

A little more HERE. (BTW: as the flashback excerpt noted, Poso has had radical Muslim violence since 2000 - that's BEFORE 9/11 - even BEFORE Bush was elected!)

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