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| Southeast Asia |
| Indons are indignant, too... |
| 2003-01-18 |
| Indonesia has expressed outrage at being included on a list of countries whose male citizens must register and be fingerprinted when visiting the US. The controversial requirement, which is part of America’s terrorism prevention measures, is applied to male visitors aged 16 and older from predominantly Muslim countries. Indonesia, which is home to more Muslims than any other country in the world, is not an Islamic state and is See snide comments re Bangladesh's wounded feelings, above. The Indons have been turned away from The Dark Side™ since October 12th. The place is still crawling with yokels who're determined to carry out jihad against Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindoos, and probably Druids. If the Bad Guys would be so kind as to wear their turbans all the time, then it wouldn't be so hard to tell them from the Good Guys, or the Indifferent Guys. Since they don't, better that suffer a minor inconvenience now than that they have to apologize for an atrocity later. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |