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but read the articles, they said it was dozens, less than 100, and that is in the world's most populous muslim country. they are hardly reacting at all compared to the people in the middle east and taking the amount of muslims in the coutnry into consideration.
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Did you read both articles?
[quote:e445f]About 100 members of the Front of the Defenders of Islam (FPI) massed outside the building, chanting: "Let's go jihad! We're ready for jihad!". One of their banners said: "Let's slaughter the Danish ambassador!" |
[quote:e445f]In Surabaya, Indonesia's second largest city, a group of about 300 Muslims rallied outside the Danish representative office. |
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You're obviously basing your opinion here on media attention, because that has generally been focused on the middle east.[/quote:e445f]
ok, 400 people out of 200 million...still very unimpressive.[/quote:e445f]
Well...Have you got the figures for the middle eastern muslims??
Didn't think so.
...and even then, there are probably alot more than the figures I quoted - Like I said, the media has been focusing its attention far more on the middle east simply because of what's been going on over there recently - So there is going to be less reporting of Indonesian muslim reactions to this latest issue.
Regardless though, Machette is right about Huntington - The division is being caused by conflicting ideals and morals, a result of troubled middle eastern-western relations....The middle east reaction is obviously going to be at least a little bit more extreme simply because that area of the world has also been physically fucked with by westerners. Not like Indonesia, and even so, there is still strong indonesian reaction which supports that point.