Indonesia, much romanticized and praised by Obama, was also the site of Muslim genocide aimed at non-Muslims. And while we hear ceaseless lectures about the grave threat of Islamophobia, events like these just breeze on by.
A would-be suicide bomber's explosives failed to detonate in a packed church in westernIndonesia during Sunday Mass, and he injured a priest with an axe before being restrained, police said.
The 18-year-old assailant left a bench and ran toward the priest at the altar, but a bomb in his backpack only burned without exploding, said national police spokesman Maj. Gen. Boy Rafli Amar.
Before he was restrained by members of the congregation, the man managed to take an axe from the backpack and attacked the Rev. Albert Pandiangan, causing a slight injury to the 60-year-old priest's hand, Amar said.
The motive for the attack at the Roman Catholic St. Yoseph Church in Medan, the capital of North Sumatra province, was not clear, but the perpetrator carried a symbol indicating support for the Islamic State group.
We get that tidbit only at the very end. With the addendum that Indonesia is doing a fine job of cracking down on terrorism. Or rather militants.
In a better world, this story would have as much traction as Muslim whining about the Burkini. But in a better world, we wouldn't have an open door for the Jihad anyway.