Indonesia
11/03/2008 > INDONESIA/ USA
"Obama never studied in an Islamic madrassa"
Rully Dasaad, a fellow pupil at Barack Obama's primary school - labeled as an "Islamic madrassa" by the conservative American media - tells us about their childhood growing up in Jakarta, Indonesia, and the polemic that it's causing now. Read more…
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14/02/2008 > INDONESIA
Mein Kampf in pride of place on bookshop shelves
Bookshop shelves displaying both Mein Kampf and a book about Barack Obama in a department store in Jakarta
Hitler's notorious diary ‘Mein Kampf' was translated into Indonesian in 2007. An immediate bestseller for publishers Narasi, it became one of their top five favourites. An employee from the publishing house explains why. Should we be worried about this seemingly unhealthy interest coming from the most populated Muslim country in the world? Read more...
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