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.
Today’s Washington Post published Film Director Gillo Pontecorvo obituary. His film ‘Battle of Algiers’ broke ground in depicting the French battle to keep their Algerian colony.
The film depicts the French use of targeted killing and torture as successful; except the Algerians in the end were never pacified. The French and Charles De Gaulle were unwilling to spend money and lives endlessly to maintain their colony.
Neither the UK nor the US governments put themselves in the perspective of Muslims being invaded by Christian Overlords. The longer the USA and UK stay in Iraq the more Muslims across the world will perceive the occupation as a religious crusade. The French actually had settled in Algeria yet left. Sooner or later the USA will withdraw out of the Middle East too.
10% does not an “embrace” of jihad make. You’d probably find a similar percentage of Americans in favor of abolishing the First Amendment and establishing Christianity as the state religion.