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Forum: 'Jihadists the last thing Gaza needs'
On Tuesday the government reiterated its refusal to send Indonesian troops to the Gaza Strip despite mounting pressure from some Islamic g roups to dispatch jihadists there
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On Tuesday the government reiterated its refusal to send Indonesian troops to the Gaza Strip despite mounting pressure from some Islamic g roups to dispatch jihadists there.
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The Indonesian government should take immediate action against those hard-line Muslims and Jihadists. Because of groups like this, Indonesia won't be taken seriously as a plural and democratic republic by the international community.
And, of course, actions by those people will only worsen the whole conflict in the Middle East. They use this conflict for electoral purposes and in the end the Palestinian people will be the victims of political games in Indonesia.
WIM BRUNEEL
As long as Indonesia can maintain a reasonable stance like this (to refuse to be dragged down to the level of Middle East jihadist's) it will continue to progress.
Going down that road cold only lead to unimaginable misery and violence for the people of Indonesia who are the only ones practicing this "religion of peace" as it should be done ... peacefully.
MORGAN
I wonder what those other effective avenues are? Every avenue has been tried in this area. Under occupation, any avenue will be short-lived.
First, what are the governments and their paid armies doing? The people are fooling themselves by volunteering to put themselves in a position so they are as helpless as the people of Gaza instead of pressuring the governments to do something concrete.
These governments have a history of not doing anything except taking the most risk-free course of action or acting in favor of the powerful, all in the name of good manners and diplomacy.
Second, people's lives should not be depend on the sympathy of others. It is a convoluted argument to justify why nationalist parties should quell the voices of those who call for action, whether they are Islamic or not.
If someone attacks a minority group or a citizen, what would make a leader concerned?
The same criteria is applied to the people of Gaza. Tell me this is not true. So, if someone badmouths any leader of almost any country in the world, it is not unjustified. The current systems breed leaders who, while personally good, are forced to act according to self-interests.
This leads groups to try to influence the interests of leaders and their parties, which powerful lobby groups and Western governments do very well in countries with Muslim majorities, even in countries with large Muslim minorities.
BERNY
