Monday, September 05, 2011

WikiLeaks' Asian field day...

In Indonesia, the national police are discovered to be using a hard-line Islamic group as its hidden “attack dog.” In Singapore, octogenarian founder Lee Kuan Yew calls Islam a “venomous religion." In Malaysia, UMNO leaders are “willing to blacken Malaysia's reputation to ensure the end to opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's political challenge.”

The latest flock of US diplomatic cables made available by the WikiLeaks Web site is setting off firecrackers all over Southeast Asia, particularly in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. A total of 251,000 cables were released by Wikileaks from diplomatic missions across the world last week, this time with no names removed to hide the identities of the confidential sources used by US embassies. The cables can be found at www.wikileaks.org. Here is a small sample.

 One of the most explosive quotes Indonesian State Intelligence Agency (BIN) official Yahya Asagaf, who said the National Police Chief, Sutanto, was providing funds to the thuggish Islamic Defenders Front, or FPI as it is known by its Indonesian acronym, which has specialized in harassing what they consider improperly dressed women, closing nightclubs and beating members of the Ahmadiyah offshoot of Islam. More...

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