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...wildly popular entrepreneurship of Aa Gym, whose immaculately clad staff hand out glossy brochures in the gardens of his pesantren-cum-business headquarters while visitors sip on the celebrity preacher's own brand of soft drink? Will it be the dogma of Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia - set up by accused terrorist leader Abu Bakar Ba'asyir to lobby for Islamic sharia law - whose members sell Osama bin Laden T shirts outside a shabby office in Yogyakarta? Or will it be the intellectual questing of the Liberal Islam Network, whose leader Ulil Abshar-Abdalla has sparked wide debate and death threats with...
...fear goes both ways; one pesantren student, asked why he hated Australians, retorts, "because you have banned girls wearing headscarves to school." But Javanese hospitality to strangers endures. Ba'asyir's Ngruki pesantren banned Australian, American and Singaporean journalists after they reported links between the school and members of terrorist group Jemaah Islamiah. But after a special plea by an Indonesian-Muslim journalist, Ba'asyir approves from jail a visit by a group of Australians - who soon find themselves on his daughter Nanik's floor, lunching on fried chicken as veiled women move around beneath drawings of English castles...
...times a day, yet disappoints many acquaintances by shunning the jilbab, the head covering worn by increasing numbers of Indonesian Muslim women. This graduate of an Australian university admires progressive Indonesian scholars for their moderation but also subscribes to the widespread conspiracy theory that Western agents are behind the terrorist attacks in her country: "They have created Islam as the common enemy." And in the dusty grounds of a pesantren in the same city, a young teacher wrestles with the question of whether his faith sanctions violence. Was the Bali attack acceptable? "It's difficult to say," he mumbles, before...
Americans who look at Aziz and his companions see only Arab solidarity, if not a terrorist cell, but the reality is far more complex and scary. Some of Aziz's friends are honest men looking for a better life, but some are con men (insurance grifters, identity thieves), and some are worse (drug dealers, terrorists). Some don't know what they are. With its international scope, its wandering point of view, its constant play of literary ambiguity and genre suspense, Harbor feels more contemporary than almost anything else out there. Sure, in an earlier era there might have been some...
Americans who look at Aziz and his companions see only Arab solidarity, if not a terrorist cell, but the reality is far more complex and scary. Some of Aziz's friends are honest men looking for a better life, but some are con men (insurance grifters, identity thieves), and some are worse (drug dealers, terrorists). Some don't know what they are. With its international scope, its wandering point of view, its constant play of literary ambiguity and genre suspense, Harbor feels more contemporary than almost anything else out there. Sure, in an earlier era there might have been some...