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...looking for a place to chill in steamy Jakarta didn't have to look much further than the Buddha Bar. Last year, the posh establishment opened as the first Asian branch of an international chain with outlets everywhere from Paris and Cairo to Kiev and Sao Paulo. But on March 10, the Jakarta Legislative Council ordered the nightspot shuttered because its use of religious iconography could be considered offensive to Buddhists. In addition to its religiously inspired name, the restaurant's dining area is dominated by a giant Buddha sitting in the lotus position...
...adherents of other faiths are looking to make their mark in the public sphere, too. In early March, Buddhist students armed with nothing more menacing than joss sticks staged a protest against the Buddha Bar. They argued that a place called Muhammad Bar or Jesus Christ Bar would hardly meet with approval. The students demanded that the hotspot's name be changed, something the Jakarta Legislative Council has agreed must be a prerequisite for the Buddha Bar to reopen. At the same time, Indonesian Corruption Watch, a local NGO, has raised questions about whether the dining lounge, which is located...
...Sept. 11 attacks united, for a brief moment, the U.S.'s two political parties in patriotic determination, the March 11 attacks had exactly the opposite effect in Spain. It's been five years since Madrid awoke to the horror of the Atocha train bombings, and 18 months since Spain's national court tried and found guilty 21 people for participating in or abetting the attacks. But the breach the attacks opened in Spanish politics lingers...
...abandon violence. But when the government began tentative talks with the group, the PP reverted to its rhetorical attacks, repeatedly accusing the government of "betrayal" and "negotiating with terrorists" and at one point, refusing for the first time in history to participate in a government-sponsored anti-ETA march. (Read a TIME story about...
...accounts, the political hostility that has its roots in March 11, 2004 has diminished significantly in the last few months, and the second Zapatero administration has managed to achieve some collaboration with the Popular Party on pressing economic matters. "Time is a healer," says Savater. "Things have lost their ferocity...