Why wasn't he stopped short in this recruitment by the Koran's true peaceful teachings, in the existence of which we are all bound to believe on pain of being charged with "Islamophobia"?
Get the answer in my forthcoming book The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran.
"Preacher groomed boys for jihad," by Stephen Fitzpatrick for The Australian, August 12 (thanks to James):
THE Muslim preacher who recruited two suicide bombers for the July 17 Jakarta terror attacks groomed at least four other teenage boys in the small housing complex where he was a respected leader.An uncle of one of the teenagers said Syaefuddin Jaelani, 32, believed to be the main recruiter for fugitive terrorist Noordin Mohammad Top's deadly Indonesian network, had taken his nephew on a week-long camping and fishing trip to see if he was prepared to wage violent jihad....
The trip was focused on religious instruction and the importance of becoming a martyr, he said, although other sources have indicated it also included fishing at the Situ Lembang camping ground, an area popular with Indonesian tourists....
The uncle said yesterday he had questioned his nephew about the purpose of the religious retreat to Bandung. "I asked him, was the indoctrination (the boys received) meant to point them to becoming a bridegroom to commit jihad," he said....
Officials at the As-Surur mosque where Jaelani was a respected and well-liked preacher, known for his excellent command of Koranic verses, said they had taken steps to determine no other youths had been indoctrinated.
There is growing suspicion that a man originally thought to have been Top who was killed in a Central Java raid at the weekend was in fact a florist named Ibrohim, who worked at the Ritz-Carlton and Marriott hotels and was the bombers' inside contact.
Ibrohim, who disappeared immediately after the bombings, is also likely to have been recruited by Jaelani. Remembered as being friendly and polite, Jaelani had a wife and young child when he arrived in the small urban community at Kahuripan last year.
Here, for the record, from my record, are the comments that were made on this article, while we were still using IntDeb.
KAFIRKANUCK observed - Boy Scouts, Jihad style.
DDA said - Addressing article headlined 'Respected and well-liked preacher...'.
Hmm. Perhaps we should be looking particularly closely not at the Anjem Choudary's, standing on their streetcorner soapboxes ranting and waving their arms, but at the smiling, plausible, besuited and well-spoken Muslim 'community leaders'.
Furthermore: I *knew* that the jihadis could not have gotten into that hotel without inside help. And now we find out who it was. The last person any counter-terrorism investigator would look twice at - "a florist named Ibrohim, who worked at the Ritz-Carlton and Marriott hotels and was the bombers' inside contact."
Got that. "A florist". Let's all look at that, and think about it. Who would suspect the hotel florist, putting those tropical blooms in the vases, in the restaurant, in the lobby, in the guest rooms, of being in league with jihadis; of harbouring, in his heart, dreams of murder and mayhem?
Jihad-enabling florist. And how many Muslims, men and women, all over the non-Muslim lands, do we have holding down similarly seeming-inoffensive jobs, invisible and overlooked, smiling and fawning, bowing and scraping even, but with 'access' to all kinds of places?
-BASEBALLMAVEN added, to DDA - Scary but true.
KDOGGJAZZ - Hello,
is it just me, or does it seem that these so called great Islamic teachers, clerics, whatever, have no problem recruiting young men and boys to martyr themselves, yet they would not even dare think of putting themselves in harms way. Is this an accurate statement? One would think that the likes of Osama would be the first to martyr himself for the cause to claim the prize so many of them believe awaits them.
-TRUS said - Of course all of the great Islamic leaders will lead in the battle...right up to the blast danger zone. Then 100 steps back...behind the ones in burkas .
GODHATESISLAM said - Thanks to the jihadis there is a great misuse of the word martyr these days. A martyr was a Christian saint who was murdered for being a follower of Christ. They are not noted for strapping bombs to themselves to murder others.
Here are martyrs (warning not for the sensitive)
http://www.opinionbug.com/wp-images/christian_sch...
Here is a pathetic failed murderer
http://lemonodor.com/archives/images/israeli-bot-...
had he suceeded he would not be a martyr.