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Think-Tank: Support for IS Extremist Group Declining in Indonesia
[BenarNews] Support for the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... hard boy group is on a downward slope in Indonesia and its main local affiliate has become "largely inactive," yet local holy warriors still are splintering into new cells, according to a think-tank report released Thursday. The arrests of some 70 suspected leaders among pro-IS Indonesian groups and the defeat of IS in Iraq and Syria have diminished its allure and severely weakened it, according to the study by the Jakarta-based Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC). Posted by: trailing wife 2021-01-30 |
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