Consider this, look again at the awful carnage in Bali, and
shudder if you ever said, or thought, that the bombs in London in
July, or the bombs in Baghdad every day, or the bombs in Bali last
Friday, are caused by any "policy" but that of the bombers
themselves. Note the following:
1. East Timor was for many years, and quite rightly, a
signature cause of the Noam Chomsky "left". The near-genocide of
its people is an eternal stain on Indonesia and on the Western
states that were complicit or silent. Yet bin Ladenism wants not
less of this killing and repression but more. Its demand to
re-establish the caliphate is a pro-imperialist demand, not an
anti-imperialist one.
2. Random bombings are not a protest against poverty and
unemployment. They are a cause of poverty and unemployment and of
wider economic dislocation.
3. Hinduism is considered by bin Ladenists to be a worse
heresy even than Christianity or Judaism or Shiism, and its
adherents, whether in Bali or Kashmir, are fit only for the edge of
the sword. So, it is absurd to think of jihadism that murders the
poor and the brown without compunction as a movement against the
rich and the "white".
So, what did Indonesia do to deserve this, or bring it on
itself? How will the slaughter in Bali improve the lot of the
Palestinians? Those who look for the connection will be doomed to
ask increasingly stupid questions and to be content with
increasingly wicked answers.
I've added a link from the word caliphate to wikipedia since I wasn't
sure of it's meaning. The important part from wikipedia I think is this
sentence:
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