Persecution

AP - Indonesian family that bombed churches well off, friendly
The AP reports: "The Muslim family that carried out suicide attacks on three churches in Indonesia’s second-largest city, killing a dozen people as well as its two young daughters, lived comfortably in an upper-middle class suburb and was on friendly terms with a Christian neighbor. [...] According to police, on Sunday morning the two sons, aged 16 and 18, rode a motorcycle into a church courtyard and detonated their explosives. Puji Kuswati, the mother, attacked worshippers at another church with her daughters, aged 8 and 12, who police said were all wearing suicide vests. The father, Dita Oepriarto, detonated a car bomb outside a third church. Police initially gave his name as Dita Futrianto but corrected that based on his national identity card. All six died."

Comment: I read this news report hoping to find out more details about the family but realized that the headline says it all. The article reveals nothing new. The entire report dances around the obvious inspiration for their murderous act but dares not say it. Such a nice family from a nice neighborhood, we can't understand why it happened. Really.