Saturday, May 04, 2002

Indonesian-Style Taliban Fights for Islamic Law (washingtonpost.com)

A group calling itself the "Taliban Brigade" is running around in Indonesia dispensing radical-Islamist vigilantism. They're helped out by the regional government. This was one of the feared outcomes of the Afghan campaign, a rise in radicalism in other Islamic countries. And Indonesia, the world's fourth-largest country, would be a lot more trouble than little Afghanistan.

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