February 27, 2006
SO, CAN THESE ARABS RUN OUR PORTS?
US tsunami aid still reaps goodwill: A recent poll found Indonesians' support for the US is almost as high as it was in the immediate aftermath of the disaster. (Tom McCawley, 2/28/06, The Christian Science Monitor)
The poll of 1,177 Indonesians in late January found that those "with a favorable opinion of the US" jumped from a low of 15 percent in May 2003 following the US-led invasion of Iraq, to more than 44 percent in January of this year. A similar poll released by the Pew Research Center in June last year also said tsunami aid had changed Indonesian opinions of the US."The military aid [after the tsunami], humanitarian help, and private philanthropy ... boosted the image of the US," says Djoko Susilo, a legislator on parliament's security commission, noting that "even rich Indonesians" don't generally give money to such causes.
And they're an emerging democracy to boot. Posted by Orrin Judd at February 27, 2006 8:02 PM
You're quite consciously transposing Arabs and Muslims, aren't you.
Posted by: ghostcat at February 27, 2006 9:41 PMGhostcat: You're right. It has to be a conscious switching of race and culture. No one could possible be so dumb or so ignorant as to think Indonesians are Arabs.
So there must be some hidden point being made here. Unfortunately you and I, and probably all the rest of us, all the rest of us, have missed it.
Posted by: Lou Gots at February 27, 2006 11:14 PMWell, our host is hardly dumb or ignorant. He is, like all of us, capable of a brain-phart, but this is not that.
Posted by: ghostcat at February 27, 2006 11:27 PMOne more instance when oj lurks on his own blog. Let's move along.
Posted by: AllenS at February 28, 2006 7:14 AMI concede the point that Islam in Asia is nothing like Islam in Arabia. My mistake.
Posted by: oj at February 28, 2006 7:26 AMHa!
Posted by: RC at February 28, 2006 8:56 AMWell, if you speed-read, Myanmar and Malaysia probably compute as Mohammed, eh? And Mahathir bin Mohamed sounds Arabic, although it was probably not his birth name.
Posted by: ratbert at February 28, 2006 10:46 AM