Indonesian Intolerance Rising
Last Saturday night, a band of fundamentalist Islamic thugs showed up in the Indonesian town of Sukoharjo in Central Java and broke up a performance of wayang, the iconic Javanese shadow puppetry that is a symbol of Indonesian culture.
Throwing rocks and waving machetes, the youths, calling themselves Laskar Jihad – holy warriors – forced the audience ou…
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