In Reply to: thats quite a mean way to think posted by nasicampur on Friday, 15. May 2009 at 16:42 Bali Time:
2002 I was in Jogajakarta and every stall along the main drag was holding up their brand new item for sale.
It was a T shirt featuring the smiling Bin Laden photo that we all know on the front with a plane crashing through a tower on the back.
One salesman grabbed my shirt and urged me to buy a T shirt as " business bad, no tourists."
They just didn't get it that the item was competely offensive to Western people as in their minds the guy was a hero so we should think so too.
There are a lot of brainwashed people in Java and to compare them with the moderate Muslims you and I know is unhelpful.
Most Indonesian Muslims are moderate but there are tens of thousands who are not.
That's just the way it is.