Muslim--friend or foe?
The place is Indonesia, the fourth largest nation in the world and the one with the largest Muslim population. The time is 1962-3 on the eve of "The year of living dangerously. Recently married, my wife, Florence, and I were living in Surabaya, Indonesia. She was bitten by a rabid dog. No serum was available, it seemed, at this time of economic crisis. A Muslim woman appealed to friends on behalf of Florence and in the nick of time one Indonesian doctor found serum for injections, which saved her life. Note this point: this Indonesian Muslim secured a scarce serum for a foreigner, an American. This life-saving gift was given not to an Indonesian but to an immigrant, deemed by President Sukarno an enemy, a neocolonialist at this time of the cold war when Indonesia had the third largest Communist party in the world.
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