With all due respect to Obama, other media need to wake up when it comes to Indonesia’s slide toward radical Islam before the place becomes the Pakistan of the South Pacific.
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| Christians pray outside after the closure of the Yasmin Church in Bogor |
Source/Credit: Get Religion
By Julia Duin | November 3, 2017
Obama doesn’t seem to realize that the Indonesia of his childhood no longer exists.
Soon after the 9/11 attacks, my employers were looking for the next place where Islamic militants were hiding out and I proposed a trip to Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim country – where there was a potential massacre awaiting Christians in one of its eastern provinces. The plane tickets were all bought and plans were for me and a photographer to fly to Palu, a city in central Sulawesi, an island shaped like something between a swastika and a pinwheel.
At the last minute, a top editor cancelled the trip because he was afraid that if we were kidnapped, the newspaper didn’t have the means to rescue us. Being that journalists were getting killed in Afghanistan, it was a very real fear. But I was terribly disappointed not to go.
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