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Article: Terror Islands.(Muslim terrorists in Spice Islands)
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- Newsweek International
- Article date:
- February 12, 2001
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Until recently Thomas Pury, 45, grew nutmeg and cloves on his four-acre farm on a remote island in the Moluccas, once called the Spice Islands. Like their parents before them, Thomas and his wife were Roman Catholics; so was virtually their entire village of 100 on the island of Kesui. They had lived in peace with Muslim neighbors for years, but all that changed in late November, when a group of Muslims from two nearby islands came to Kesui dressed in white and carrying swords. They demanded that the Catholics convert to Islam--or else risk an attack on their villages.
With dozens of others, Thomas felt compelled to become a Muslim. But he wasn't ready for what ...
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