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When disaster hits, Indonesia’s Islamists are first to help

  PALU, Indonesia --- The flags hanging outside Anwar Ragaua's house have drawn warnings from police, but the wiry 50-year-old vows he's not taking them down.   After all, the police weren't there to help when he was the sole fisherman in his village to survive the tsunami that inundated the Indonesian city of Palu at dusk on Sept. 28. Nor was the government. Nor were the aid organizations that swept into the stricken region in remote central Sulawesi.   Instead, the first people to offer him hope --- and a new boat --- were deployed by a hardline Islamic group notorious for vigilante violence such as storming the offices of Playboy magazine, smashing up...

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