banjar...make peace overtures? with ehom? with wha
Good 'ol banjo...ever the appeasing apologist and attempting to trivialise these animals
"Bashir has been elevated to a higher status by the western media than anybody else. Rather than being a serious threat to Indonesian security he is little more than an annoyance"
What a load of revisionist cr#p.
And this other bit from your post..."if you don't give the radicals or troublemakers a forum with which to spread their ideas, then it limits their influence and gives greater opportunity for the conservative voices and leaders to hold the hearts and minds of the masses"
First up...kinda hard not to televise the collapse of the towers, aint it
And secondly, the whole premise is totally flawed. The impact and influence of the JI's of this world is in the poverty, disillusioned and rabid masses of loonatics in the Middle EAST
The govt is the cause of their plight and it is here that the AQ and the JI and the Hamas have their breeding ground
Betchya 90% of the footsoldiers havent paid a moments notice to WEstern Media. Indeed in many places there is only their version of news
The effect of which you speak might have some credence in the west but in the Dark Ages that most of these countries live in
