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...they will read it at Friday prayers at the mosque. About how the Anglican church in the United States is approving homosexuality and has now elevated a homosexual man with a partner to be a bishop of the Anglican community. And Christians will probably die. They may die in Indonesia as well. Sodomy is punishable by death under Sharia law. It's a shame that Islam is that intolerant - that they kill Christians every time there's some wave that comes along. Right on the borders of Christianity and Islam where they're overlapping, there is a tremendous contest...
...Malaysia and testified by video-link, is Jemaah Islamiah's (JI) putative treasurer, and he confessed to personally delivering the $30,000 used to fund the Bali attack. That was merely the latest in a series of revelations that have been entered into the docket in courtrooms around Indonesia. In Jakarta and Bali, self-confessed or alleged members of JI have proven to be most voluble and capricious defendants...
...summer of 1997 with the haze: Indonesian forests were burning, and Malaysia and Thailand choked in their smoke, a story the satellite news networks transmitted to the world in apocalyptic images, as they would the calamities that followed. Then, one after another, Asian currencies collapsed. In 1998, Indonesia was in chaos as the Suharto regime was brought down by street mobs; a year later, Ambon and East Timor were riven by appalling sectarian violence. Sri Lanka was rocked by waves of suicide bombers; in July 2001, Colombo's airport was hit. Then came 9/11, with anti-American demonstrations...
...then came SARS. Unlike previous crises, which remained relatively focused in their impact, the contagion tarred every destination in East Asia with the same brush. In the late 1990s, Thailand and Hong Kong benefited from Indonesia's turmoil as travelers went to those two places in search of a safe haven. But with SARS, everybody lost. Although Thailand and Indonesia were virtually untouched by the virus, they suffered almost equally with the worst-hit destinations...
...unrelenting bad news, and the resulting decline in income from foreign tourists, are turning the handsome prince of travel back into a toad. Governments that once talked about building satellite international airports to handle the crowds of foreign visitors are now erecting new barriers to keep them out. Indonesia has decided to abolish tourist visas on arrival, citing reciprocity: if Western nations won't give us visas on arrival, why should we make it easy for them? (It remains unclear when the new regulation will go into effect, if ever.) Travel advisories posted by the U.S. and other governments have...