Friday, September 10, 2004

Jemaah Islamiyah takes responsibility of the Jakarta bomb, that killed 9 people.

Even now, when Indonesia is a partial democracy - nationalistic, rightwing and religious parties are legal, other parties banded, which seems to suit the West just fine, no need of true democracy in states that are not hostile to the West - the Jemaah Islamiyah is treated with extreme caution, one could say, as the fundamentalists have large support base in Indonesia (of which thanks go to the fact that secular opposition was crushed during the dictatorship of 1965-98, with the help of the West, who supported theocrats against secular socialists and now reaps what it sowed) which the government has to take account of.

And now the fundamentalists bite the hands that once fed them.