Indo Traveling...... Movie.... Muslims.... REALLY?

I read an article about how most of the protesters haven't even seen the movie and do not have any idea what it is about. A lot reporters/historians think that the protests about the movie started as a cover story behind their true reasons for protesting...to "celebrate" 9/11. The movie has been out for months...it was reported on by an Egyptian Islamist television station on 9/8 and protests started on 9/11. I think it is too much of a coincidence for me. As for traveling to indo..as usual the media makes it seem like the whole country is on fire...only a tiny tiny fraction of people care enough to protest. I am sure people will be fine traveling there, especially on boat trips etc.

 

be cautious, be aware of your surroundings, don't act like a dip****...& you should be fine.

 

true, but it bears extra emphasis when traveling, & esp. when traveling into an area that's potentially problematic. the thing i notice a lot when traveling is that most americans tend to act as if they are still in america. they either forget or don't care that people do things differently in other parts of the world, particularly so in areas w/ a different cultural & religious heritage.

 

or just stay in the us and dont worry about none of the bs....plenty of waves here! wait till it simmers down...no need to be held hostage or beheaded on camera on youtube

 

if you can park your car in atlantic city and surf, then you can handle indo. respect people, and be polite. in any 3rd world country police are the ones you have to watch out for. don't argue and pay the bribe.

 

Mission = Hyjack Thread

My biggest dream trip has been Nicaragua. It's always firing there!!! But after reading about the crime there I am really nervous about booking that trip for next summer. Seems like a super dangerous country. Anybody been out there?

 

Everyone needs to listen to this... I'll scope it put and report back...stay inside your homes it's safer.

 

Well AC was no prob... I'm also interested in how things will shape up the next couple of montsh seeing we are planning for an April trip. Maybe the prices will drop? ha, yea right.

 

Idk man, Indo has the highest soncentration of Muslims if I remember correctly. I'm sure the media is only showing the pissed off ones, but I don't think I'd go. In general, anyone who is willing to kill over a book that is essentially a myth is retarded, wheteher it's the Bible, the Torah, or the Q'uran. Organized religion sucks, worship the ocean.

 

compared to where? the us? iran? this statement doesn't make any sense.

 

It doesnt make sense, and even after trying to make sense of it, its just incorrect. And having been there, I didnt feel all that unsafe either.

I realize wiki isnt always right...but they've listed Indonesia down around 30th in terms of Muslim as a percentage of country population.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Muslim_population

 

Actually it does make sense, I wouldn't post something if I didn't know what I was talking about. There's a s**tload of Muslims in Indo. I'll come back with a more reputable source when I have more time. From Wiki:

According to the Pew Research Center in 2010 there were 49 Muslim-majority countries.[11] Around 62% of the world's Muslims live in South and Southeast Asia, with over 1 billion adherents.[12], The largest Muslim country is Indonesia home to 12.7% of the world's Muslims followed by Pakistan (11.0%), India (10.9%), and Bangladesh (9.2%).[3][13] About 20% of Muslims live in Arab countries.[14] In the Middle East, the non-Arab countries of Turkey and Iran are the largest Muslim-majority countries; in Africa, Egypt and Nigeria have the most populous Muslim communities.[3][13]

I'm not saying dont go, I could really care less what you do or think, I'm just saying I wouldn't go.

 

Still waiting....

Do your research before you get argumentative you dumb s**ts, that excerpt came from the link you provided scotty. Maybe you didn't read it and just looked at the pretty color coded map.

 

Your waiting on yourself??

Why bother? You dont want to go to Indo, thats fine, its not for everyone.

 

Bro its the freaking Internet and u Wikipedia'd that ****. Relax...

Bali has a high population of Hindu where islands adjacent are predominantly muslim like Lombok and java

Youll be fine just fly into denpasar
Seldom seen have you been to Indonesia?

 

Best you could do? I was waiting for an intelligent and accurate response, not a smart a** comeback.

@ Turrtle I have not. Again, not telling anyone not to go anywhere, the OP was asking people's opinions and I provided mine.

 

click the third column "muslim % of total population", sort it descending. Displays muslim population as a percentage of the total country population. Indonesia is down at like 30th rank. When you said "Indo has the highest concentration of Muslims " to me that implied highest percentage, not total number. I remember from going there, and talking to locals, that there are a lot of Christians.