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July 20, 2009
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Indonesian Muslim leaders urge not to link terror with Islam

JAKARTA, July 20 (Xinhua) -- Various Muslim leaders and organizations in Indonesia are calling on all sides not to link Islam to terror attacks which killed nine people and injured more than 50 others in Jakarta last week.

"Resorting to terror was not Islamic. Islam does not adopt that terror behavior. So, the bomb terror such as the bombings of two top hotels in South Jakarta on Friday has no link with Islam," Antara news agency quoted chairman of the Islamic organization Basri Bermanda as saying on Sunday.

The Marriott hotel and the Ritz-Carlton hotel in southern Jakarta were hit by two explosions on Friday Morning, killing at ...

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