Indonesia: Radical Muslims’ parties lose support

Bravo, Indonesia!

The world’s largest Muslim nation rejects radicals at the polls:

clipped from www.nytimes.com Indonesia’s Voters Retreat From Radical Islam Image via Wikipedia [H]ere in the world’s most populous Muslim nation […] Islamic parties [are] suffering a steep drop in popular support. […] In parliamentary elections this month, voters punished Islamic parties that focused narrowly on religious issues, and even the parties’ best efforts to appeal to the country’s mainstream failed to sway the public.[…] The party had projected that it would double its share of seats in Parliament even as it stuck to its founding goal of bringing Shariah, or Islamic law, to Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous nation, with 240 million people. […] Altogether, the major Islamic parties suffered a drop in support from 38 percent in 2004 to less than 26 percent this year […] [F]undamentalist measures seem to have alienated moderate Indonesians […]

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