Wednesday, October 12, 2005
BOMBERS AGAINST BIKINIS
“Why are we targets in Bali?” asked several commentators recently. Here’s Andrew West:
I don’t want this to be my “Susan Sontag” moment, but in the wake of the second, awful – and yes, evil – round of bombings in Bali this past weekend, we need to ask a lot of questions. We’ve already started to answer some: who, what, when, where and how. But we still haven’t asked, at least not in any depth, the most important question: why?
Muhammed Khozin, younger brother of 2002 Bali bombers Amrozi and Mukhlas, provides an answer:
“Alcohol, bikinis, that kind of thing makes Muslims angry. Don’t do that when visiting a country with a Muslim majority,” he said. “I’m sorry, Australian culture makes war on morality. They come to Bali with bikinis, they make war on morality. Not physical war, morality war. Respect the culture and religion of Indonesia.”
(Via Geoffrey Gold)