Originally posted by InfoKartel
However, Indonesia, where the largest population of Muslims live, has no oppressive regime. Neither does India where a lot of Muslims live as well.
But there's no oil in those countries, correct?
Lots of mineral wealth and some oil (enough to invade for?) in Indonesia.
www.thejakartaglobe.com...
'Although it is well-known that Indonesia is rich in resources, its actual mineral wealth is often underestimated. The country produces close to one
million barrels of oil per day, and each year some 72,000 million cubic meters of natural gas, 360 million short tons of coal, 65,000 kilograms of
gold, 610,000 tons of copper and 200,000 tons of nickel.
Using 2010 average prices, on international markets this take is worth no less than $95 billion'.
And they're having increasing levels of sectarian violence too.
'BANGKOK (AlertNet) – Violence against religious minorities surged in Indonesia in 2011, with authorities standing aside and failing to uphold the
rule of law as Islamist mobs attacked Christians and Ahmadis, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in its annual report on the country.
The report, part of a larger HRW publication monitoring human rights in more than 90 countries, also said violence continued to rack Papua and West
Papua. The report said the authorities used excessive force against peaceful protesters in these Indonesian provinces, where a low-level separatist
insurgency has been going on for decades.
Elaine Pearson, the group’s deputy Asia director, said attacks on religious minorities and police violence in Papua “got a lot worse in
2011.”
“The common thread is the failure of the Indonesian government to protect the rights of all its citizens,” she said.
The report said senior government officials, including Minister of Religious Affairs Suryadharma Ali, Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi, and
Minister of Human Rights and Law Patrialis Akbar, “continued to justify restrictions on religious freedom in the name of public order.”
Incidents of sectarian violence “got more deadly and more frequent” last year, with 184 cases of religious attacks in the first nine months of
2011, the rights group said. Churches as well as Ahmadi mosques and communities in various places came under assault.'
www.hrw.org...
If I was a conspiracy theorist, I'd link these two things and wonder who, if anyone, is pulling the strings.
Sorry, just realised. Waaaaaay off topic!
edit on 26-4-2012 by khimbar because: (no reason given)
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