Originally posted by KumSioJui
is. This is a huge embarassment to the indonesian
government....
THIRD TIME I wonder if anybody now will dare to risk going to
bali
on holiday when anytime you could get your head blown
off.>
Don't think the terrorists are interested in embrassing any
govt.
Their obession is to wreak havoc in any country they perceive
as
their enemy and they are using Islam as a means to that end.
But
they are not interested in the Islamic faith per se. They are
actually bigots who can only accept their brand of Islam and,
of
course, tolerate no other religions
towards foreigners, yes it's true that many australians and
foreigners are victims of these attacks but I believe that
subtely
these attacks are engineered towards the indonesians muslims
instead.
First of all if you attack foreigners, foreign agencies will
hunt
you down and you are on the run for the rest of your lives. but
if
these terrorists attack their own muslim people in the name of
god
but using the west as a pretext target and in the process
muslims
get killed or suffer, who do you think muslims everywhere
will
direct their anger towards: god? the invisible perpetrators?
or
their government for being inefficient in preventing these
attacks?>
Almost all the responses I read have been condemnation of the
attacks (the act itself and not so much on anybody or govt).
Though
some suggested social factors and policies by political
leaders,
local as well as global, to be contributing factors, none
blamed
the govt for being inefficient in preventing attacks.
It is simply impossible to prevent all attacks if the terrorists
choose
to terrorize a country. The efficiency of a govt is, therefore,
not
measured by its ability to prevent attacks but by how well it
responds to attacks.
Also, you seemed to have forgotten that 90% of the Balinese are
hindus
country, if a nation has a history of traditional tribal
faction
and ethnic violence democracy will never work out. Surarto knew
his
people were like this thats why he ruled with an iron fist,
during
his reign where were these terrorists ... they were like mice
with
a hardly more than a whimper but now that he is gone they are
like
lions with a roar and teeth that bite and they are
unstoppable.>
During Suharto's time terrorism was mainly confined to Middle
East.
Terrorism only spread globally and mutated after Al Qaeda blasted
the WTC on 11 Sep 2001.
