Correction to Chrono's Answer.

Submitted by Imran Khan (United States), Nov 4, 2002 at 14:12

Indonesia was not always Muslim. Indonesia was a land of Hindu culture and the hundreds of ruins of temples in Java and other islands testify to that. That culture has now shrunk to only on the island of Bali where the last attack took place. One of the reasons for selecting Bali given was that most of the native indonesians that would die will be non-Muslims!

---

Note: Opinions expressed in comments are those of the authors alone and not necessarily those of Daniel Pipes. Original writing only, please. Comments are screened and in some cases edited before posting. Reasoned disagreement is welcome but not comments that are scurrilous, off-topic, commercial, disparaging religions, or otherwise inappropriate. For complete regulations, see the "Guidelines for Reader Comments".