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Indonesia's Shiites Fear They're Next

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Mar 15, 2011
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The small Al Khasanah Mosque in East Jakarta was half-full when Farid Okbah took to the podium to deliver his sermon. Fifteen minutes into his fiery speech, the place of worship was packed with around 150 people eager to hear the firebrand cleric lash out against what he called deviant beliefs.

Minority sects "are thorns in our flesh," he told his follow…

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