Tuesday, March 25, 2008

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Beat up infidel tourists, says Muslim cleric

By Natasha Robinson March 24, 2008 01:26am

Hardline ... Indonesian Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has called for tourists in Bali to be beaten and for youths to become martyrs / Reuters

  • Bashir back to hardline
  • Call to beat up tourists
  • Retribution for executions

ISLAMIC cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has returned to his hardline rhetoric with a call for followers to beat up Western tourists and for young Muslims to die as martyrs.

In the sermon, organised by an Islamic youth organisation and delivered a few kilometres from the home village of convicted Bali bombers Amrozi and Mukhlas, Bashir likened tourists in Bali to "worms, snakes, maggots", and specifically referred to the immorality of Australian infidels.

The address was caught on video by an Australian university student.


"The youth movement here must aspire to a martyrdom death," said the cleric, who was convicted of conspiracy over the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians, but was later cleared and released from prison.

"The young must be first at the front line - don't hide at the back. You must be at the front, die as martyrs and all your sins will be forgiven. This is how to achieve forgiveness."

Observers said the sermon's content was a clear indication of what many terrorism academics have noted - that the accused spiritual head of Jemaah Islamiah has been emboldened by his release from prison last year after serving 26 months for conspiracy in relation to the Bali blasts.

"Immediately after Abu Bakar Bashir was released from incarceration he was very cautious in spreading hatred," said Rohan Gunaratna, head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University.

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"The remarks show that Abu Bakar Bashir has gone back to the pre-incarceration period where he was in a very similar way urging JI members, encouraging JI members to move in the direction of violence, especially violence including terrorism."

The sermon was organised by the youth group Persatuan Pemuda Islam Pantura (Java North Coast Islamic Youth Group) and delivered on October 22 last year

Link: http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,26058,23421939-5014090,00.html




5 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

Tourists should stay away from Bali, see how they'd like that without the money that they bring in to the country.

6:12 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Tourists should stay away from Bali, see how they'd like that without the money that they bring in to the country.

6:13 PM  
Blogger Nemesis said...

Hello English Rose......bit of a catch 22 with Bali. The Balinese are mainly hindu and do not consider themselves Indonesian which are mainly Muslim.

Take the tourist dollar from Bali and the Balinese suffer because Indonesia will not provide for them.

Westerners, and the ease of access to them via the downtown bars and other haunts was the main reason that the Bali Terrorists (muslims) set up the Bali bombings.

Indonesia is a conglomeration of Island states(mostly muslim) which is loosely held together by the Indonesian government. I've been waiting for the whole thing to fall apart, which it eventually will, for years.

The Indonesian government cannot afford to crack down too hard on the misbehaving muslims because of the perceived trouble they will generate toward the government, such as riots which could lead to open rebellion. That is why there is the occasional church burned down and the christian murdered which authorities never seem to be able to control. Terry

11:25 AM  
Blogger MathewK said...

I'd stay away from Indonesia because of other reasons as well, it's not a country like Australia where you have certain rights and privileges. If you get into trouble over there, you're on yer own.

6:10 PM  
Blogger 10 men said...

In Ache sharia law rules the land.

8:58 AM  

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