An Islamic youth group threatened Wednesday to force U.S. and allied diplomats to leave Indonesia, amid rising condemnation of the imminent war against Iraq. Y'know, this might be getting to be a habit with them. Indon thugs threatened the same thing when we went into Afghanistan...
Anshor, the youth wing of Indonesia's largest Islamic organization Nahdlatul Ulama, said it also plans a national boycott of U.S. products.
We could boycott Indonesian products, too, if they had any...
"Anshor will demand the expulsion of U.S. diplomats and government representatives and also those of its allies," the head of its communications department, Munawar Fuad Noeh, told AFP. If the diplomats did not leave voluntarily within 48 hours from the start of any attack, "there will be the possibility of a forced expulsion by the people," an Anshor statement threatened.
Are we talking about occupying the U.S. embassy and holding hostages? It's been done. It won't be a long drawn-out hostage crisis this time...
Should war break out, the movement will also try to close down all U.S. companies operating in the country, lower U.S. flags in public places and launch a national boycott of American products.
I suppose we could just take our losses and get out of Indonesia entirely and leave them to suppurate, but Australia does have more extensive commercial interests there...
"This decision did not come from Anshor itself but following intensive discussions with other youth and religious groups and leaders," Noeh said. Anshor claims millions of members. "Washington should realize that these anti-war sentiments are not just small ripples that it can ignore. You go and make war and you will see what you will reap," said Noeh, terming any attack a "modern form of barbarism."
Roving gangs of Islamic bully boyz are something else?
Hundreds of students at Palu in Central Sulawesi barricaded a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet on Tuesday, March 18, and scared away customers. Syafii Ma'arif, head of the second largest Muslim group Muhammadiyah, described President George W. Bush as a "war criminal."
Yeah, yeah...
"Bush needs to see a psychiatrist because his mindset is no longer normal. It is a pity to see a superpower country having a leader like him," he was quoted as saying by the Detikcom online news service.
Boy, am I getting tired of hearing this kind of talk coming from Third World religious fanatics in the process of peeing in their own soup. It just bothers me more, the more it's repeated.