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Originally Posted by frostfire
Both are true. The colonialism: http://www.workers.org/indonesia/chap3.html The corruption should be widely known.
Back to the main topic, I think both sides are not necessarily against each other. Islam was brought to SE Asia by Arab merchants, and assimilated with the local culture etc. The lack of violence in the process yield a "more peaceful" version of Islam relative to the ones in Middle East. However, the Koran (and the imam) can easily spark and justify violence.
A good read for Islam and terrorism in SE Asia: http://www.terrorismcentral.com/Libr.../JIHistBG.html
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FrostFire,
Before you start calling the Indonesian people "peaceful" you might want to research what they did about 40 years ago.....
It will give you some insight as to how they "think" as a people. I'll give you a hint, it was genocide on a masssive scale!
TS
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