Promoted by Steven D. This is horrible news.
This story doesn’t discuss causality or trends (e.g., no numbers from past polls). But in light of April’s National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), reported on in The New York Times, that concluded that the Iraq war has spawned "a new generation of Islamic radicalism" and globalized it, is there any reasonable doubt that the US presence in Iraq is one reason why jihad is embraced by the most populous Muslim nation on the planet?
From the article:
AKARTA (Reuters) – Around one in 10 Indonesian Muslims support jihad and justify bomb attacks on Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali as defending the faith, a survey released on Sunday showed.
Indonesia is the world’s fourth most populous country, with 220 million people, 85 percent of whom follow Islam, giving the Asian archipelago the largest Muslim population of any nation in the world.