Outdoors, Jakarta’s heat and humidity were oppressive. Inside the 6th World Peace Forum (WPF), most delegates were in heated agreement that violent extremism was a serious, global problem. Muslim delegates from dozens of countries were unapologetically hostile towards Islamists who promote terrorism and brutality, to the slight discomfort of a few western academics.
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