A boy places a flower in front of the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Jakarta Friday. Nine people died in blasts there and the neighboring JW Marriott. ReutersFrom The Christian Science Monitor:
Charity worker Noor Huda Ismail went to the same Islamic boarding school as some of Indonesia’s top terrorists. Now he explains their ideology.
Jakarta, Indonesia - Indonesian authorities said Sunday that there is an increasing evidence that the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), an Islamist group responsible for more than 300 murders in attacks dating back to 2000, was responsible for Friday's deadly attacks on the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta.
Ansyaad Mbai, a senior Indonesian counter-terrorist official, said that an unexploded bomb found in a laptop in an 18th floor room at the Marriott indicates that the attackers – two of them suicide bombers – used the room as a sort of command center for the attack.
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Update: Jakarta Police Focus on Graduate of Islamic School -- Wall Street Journal
My Comment: The same argument can be made about the Islamic madrasses in Pakistan. A steady diet of hate and bigotry will impact a number of students. And while most (when they grow up) may end up rejecting these philosophy .... many will not.
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