Tim Blair has some insiight on the Jakarta bombing:

Maybe they know that joke. After all, Indonesia’s blast masters practice often enough. But they’re stuck playing at home. And as a terrorist slogan, “Think global, act local” doesn’t cut it.


Meanwhile, consider the effect of this attack on what we might call Jemaah Islamiah’s target audience. We were warned that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq would cause Muslims the world over to rise up in outrage against the West; that hasn’t happened, but the attacks in Bali and Jakarta may provoke across Indonesia an even greater opposition to terrorism than already exists.


Muslim terrorists might soon discover how dangerous it is to alienate the world’s largest Muslim population.

I think most Muslims are not happy with bombing like this or the Bali bombing. They killed MOSTLY Muslims. Eventually they will have their say.