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Indonesian terror attacks highlight an often forgotten truth
The recent spate of horrific terrorist attacks in Indonesia highlights a number of unfortunate, and often overlooked, truths about this global epidemic of violent slaughter.
- Editorial
- The Canberra Times
The first is that by far the greatest number of terror attacks carried out by so-called Islamic extremists occur in Muslim countries.
A second is the attackers, who appropriate the name of a worthy and long-established faith that espouses tolerance, justice and civil harmony, have about as much to do with Islam as the Klu Klux Klan has to do with Methodism, the…