Bali Bombing Cleric Tells Muslims to Go on Jihad
Charles Johnson
Wed Nov 8, 2006 at 10:52 am PST • Views: 389
After serving only two years for his part in the Islamic mass murder attacks in Bali, cleric Abu Bakar Bashir is back urging Indonesian Muslims to commit violence in the name of Islam—just not at home: Bashir warns against Indonesia jihad. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
HARDLINE cleric Abu Bakar Bashir today told his fellow Indonesian Muslims that if they wanted to go on jihad, they should do so outside the country.
“If you want to go on jihad, do not do it here (in Indonesia), but in the southern Philippines or even in Iraq,” Bashir told members and supporters of the Indonesian Mujahideen Council (MMI) in a sermon at a mosque in Kediri, East Java province, the state Antara news agency said. Bashir chairs the MMI, an umbrella organisation advocating the implementation of Islamic Sharia law.
His sermon came as he was commenting on the “jihad” by the key players in the 2005 Bali bombings, for which he had been accused of advance knowledge and of having sanctioned the action.
He said that the Bali bombers had been on jihad but unfortunately “not at the right time or place”. He did not elaborate.
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