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Lady Gaga Meets Radical Islam in Jakarta

Lady Gaga Meets Radical Islam in Jakarta

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May 16, 2012
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A decision by Indonesian national police to ban a sold-out June 3 performance in Jakarta by the American pop star Lady Gaga, which has already sold a whopping 52,000 tickets, has pushed the country’s laid-back urbanites into outrage at the country’s thin crust of Islamic militants.

Indonesia's hardline Islamist organizations including the thuggish Islami…

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