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Indonesia: Muslim cleric gets 4 years for funding jihad terror training camp

Jun 30, 2015 11:37 am By Robert Spencer

Afief Abdul MadjidHow did he miss all of the Qur’an’s peaceful teachings — teachings that are so blazingly obvious to John Kerry, David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Tony Abbott and the rest? How could a Muslim cleric, someone who has dedicated his life to understanding and imparting Islam properly, misunderstand Islam so spectacularly? Will Cameron or Johnson or Kerry or Abbott or any of our other non-Muslim imams be issuing a statement of explanation, or flying to Jakarta to teach Afief Abdul Madjid the true, peaceful Islam?

“Cleric jailed four years for funding terrorist training camp,” by Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Straits Times, June 30, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Radical cleric Afief Abdul Madjid has been sentenced to four years’ jail for funding a terrorist paramilitary training camp in Aceh, but was acquitted of joining the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group and spreading its violent ideology for lack of evidence.

The Central Jakarta District Court handed down the jail sentence yesterday, which was half the eight-year sentence that the state prosecution had demanded.

Afief was indicted under the 2003 anti-terrorism law that can punish anyone for creating public fear, conspiring to carry out terror activities or funding terror activities.

In their arguments, the prosecutors pointed out that ISIS carried out killings amid other violent acts and was declared a terrorist group by the Indonesian government in November last year.

Yesterday, the court found 63-year-old Afief guilty of giving 25 million rupiah (S$2,500) to a man named Ubaid that went towards the Aceh paramilitary camp, which was raided in 2010.

In acquitting him of the charge of joining ISIS and spreading its violent ideology back home, the three-judge panel said there was not enough evidence to show that he had joined ISIS or pledged allegiance to it.

“The prosecutors accused the defendant of joining military training, pledging allegiance to ISIS and spreading the ideology, but this was not convincingly proven during the trial,” presiding judge Mas’ud, who goes by one name, said yesterday.

But just minutes after the court acquitted Afief of the ISIS-related charge, one of his supporters shouted “Daulah Islamiyah, Merdeka!” or “Freedom for the Islamic State!”.

More than 25 Afief supporters who were in court also shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is great) while the judge was reading out the verdict. One of them, Mr Umar Abdul Azis, 50, told The Straits Times: “The verdict is a form of oppression on cleric Afief who is just a religious teacher.”…

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  1. mortimer says

    Jun 30, 2015 at 11:57 am

    Why would an Islamic cleric who studied Islam at the college level miss any important details about Islam? Doesn’t he understand the universal obligation of JIHAD? Of course he does…but he also believes in the obligation of ACTION, rather than merely TALKING about jihad.

    Islam per se is the source of jihad philosphy…it is not ‘extremism’…Jihad is normative Islam.

    It’s absurd to think Muslims don’t understand jihad correctly.

  2. mortimer says

    Jun 30, 2015 at 12:29 pm

    Muslim countries are DOUBLE-MINDED and self-refuting.

    Indonesia makes a show of enforcing Sharia, but it is fighting jihad because jihad is de-stabilizing. At what point will Muslim countries see that the problem is Islam. Do they have to be plunged into constant daily bombings, shootings and stabbings for them to see that Islam is the source?

    • gerard says

      Jun 30, 2015 at 7:55 pm

      During the Soviet era there was a saying “When you’re riding a tiger, you can’t get off!” The death penalty for apostasy and “blasphemy” is very effective in maintaining the status quo.

  3. Angemon says

    Jun 30, 2015 at 12:36 pm

    One of them, Mr Umar Abdul Azis, 50, told The Straits Times: “The verdict is a form of oppression on cleric Afief who is just a religious teacher.”…

    Let me guess: islamophobia at work…

  4. Ed says

    Jun 30, 2015 at 3:09 pm

    It’s a losing battle against a tidal wave of islamists.

  5. Huck Folder says

    Jun 30, 2015 at 3:11 pm

    Now mohammed was Afief .

    • gerard says

      Jun 30, 2015 at 8:01 pm

      “Now mohammed was Afief .”
      And Aliar and Amurderer..

  6. gerard says

    Jun 30, 2015 at 8:05 pm

    The mind games these people play is just off the chart! At the same time they laud the Jihadi Mohammad and then condemn Jihad! Go figure, if you can!

  7. Matthieu Baudin says

    Jun 30, 2015 at 10:20 pm

    More ‘softly softly’ sentencing of violent Islamic fanatics by Indonesian courts.

  8. particolor says

    Jul 1, 2015 at 8:10 am

    Absolute Bull Shit ! The judge was practising TAKIYYA for the world to see ! 🙁
    I’ll bet they get a nice soft bed and Yummy Halal Tucker if they are jailed !

    I’m not fooled by any stunt they pull.

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