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Indonesia: Muslim cleric who set up jihad terror training camp says, “What I did was right according to Islam”

Feb 9, 2016 7:56 pm By Robert Spencer

Abu Bakar Bashir is a Muslim cleric. He has dedicated his life to understanding Islam properly and communicating it effectively to others. But according to Barack Obama and John Kerry and Pope Francis and David Cameron, he has drastically misunderstood his peaceful religion. I do hope they are preparing to travel over to Jakarta and explain the true Islam to them.

Abu Bakar Bashir By Islam I am right

“Indonesia sentences 7 for IS links, Abu Bashir files appeal,” Associated Press, February 9, 2016:

Jakarta: An Indonesian court on Tuesday sentenced seven men for conspiring with the Islamic State group, the first time the country has sent anyone to prison for IS links, as radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir appealed his conviction.

A three-judge panel at the West Jakarta District Court found four men guilty of violating Indonesia’s anti-terrorism law by joining Islamic State jihadists and attending the group’s military-style training. Ahmad Junaedi, Ridwan Sungkar, Helmi Muhammad Alamudi and Abdul Hakim Munabari were sentenced to between three and four years imprisonment.

Their recruiters, Aprimul Henry and Koswara Ibnu Abdullah, were sentenced to three and four years in jail for helping them go to Syria.

The seventh, Tuah Febriwansyah, who is also known as Muhammad Fachry, received a five-year sentence for actively spreading IS propaganda through his own radical website and posting violent videos of terrorism activities on the Internet, including one showing militants in Syria giving military-style training to Indonesian children.

At a hearing in another court Tuesday, Bashir filed an appeal to overturn his 2011 conviction for violating the anti-terrorism law by setting up a militant camp in Aceh province. The 77-year-old founder of the Jemaah Islamiyah militant network had received a 15-year sentence, but it was later cut to nine years.

Bashir is considered the spiritual leader of al Qaida-linked militants blamed for the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people. He has expressed his support to the Islamic State and has pledged allegiance to IS.

Bashir’s lawyers and state prosecutors signed a conclusion of his appeal before judges in the Cilacap District Court, the closest court to the high-security prison island of Nusa Kambangan where he is serving his sentence. The appeal will be sent to the Supreme Court this week for the final ruling.

“I hope judges understand that my deed of helping training camp in Aceh was my religious obligation,” Bashir told the court. “I’m guilty according to the government law, but what I did is correct according to Islam.”…

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  1. sidney penny says

    Feb 9, 2016 at 8:17 pm

    ” I do hope they are preparing to travel over to Jakarta”

    Obama knows Jakarta well,really well.

    “what I did is correct according to Islam”

    Robert Spencer could have told him that.

    Abu Bakar Bashir the Muslim cleric is not a one man band-he has lots of supporters.

    Most Muslim clerics whether in Pakistan or Indonesia are not one man band so are able to create with the support they have havoc.

    • mortimer says

      Feb 9, 2016 at 11:59 pm

      The source texts of Islam (Sira, hadiths, Koran, commentaries, Sharia) CREATE THE JIHADISTS.

      Most jihadists have attended ISLAMIC STUDY GROUPS THAT STUDY THE SOURCE TEXTS!

    • Sandra Lee Smiths says

      Feb 10, 2016 at 2:26 pm

      Yep, the dude’s just an orthodox Muslim, following his “prophet” exactly. It is nice to see Indonesia making an effort to stem that tide, not that I really think it’ll go very far, but they’re making an effort to divorce from the hateful violence.

  2. john spielman says

    Feb 9, 2016 at 8:43 pm

    bet he will released VERY EARLY on good”islamic” behavior

    • Paulina says

      Feb 10, 2016 at 12:25 am

      Indonesia is a corrupt country. Terrorists who indirectly killed 202 people got only 3 – 9 years sentence while foreigners who got caught with drugs were executed. The foreigners were not Muslims

  3. JeffS says

    Feb 9, 2016 at 8:48 pm

    Bechya 4 years in prison will show the error of their ways. /sarc

  4. Matthieu Baudin says

    Feb 9, 2016 at 8:57 pm

    “…’I hope judges understand that my deed of helping training camp in Aceh was my religious obligation,” Bashir told the court. “I’m guilty according to the government law, but what I did is correct according to Islam.’…”

    Bashir is a creepy guy and there are many more like him in Islamic regions of South East Asia. The arrogance and contempt that he exudes no doubt is buttressed by his familiarity and commitment to Islamic principles.

    As long as foreign leaders ignore the Islamic element spuring on the activities of traditional Jihadists like Bashir and his followers, there will be little impetus for the governments of Indonesia or Malaysia to engage in the process of a radical reform of the faith, away from fundamentalism and supremacism.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Feb 10, 2016 at 4:55 am

      Islam will not be reformed: its own rules forbid it: the penalty, death.
      An Iranian suggested, in Koran readings at his home, that the story of Jonah and the whale be taken figuratively. He was hanged.

  5. Angemon says

    Feb 9, 2016 at 9:07 pm

    “I hope judges understand that my deed of helping training camp in Aceh was my religious obligation,” Bashir told the court.

    My guess is that they understand, but don’t give a s***.

    • particolor says

      Feb 10, 2016 at 5:18 am

      Nobody Understands the Made Up Bullshit !! And I want my Donation Money Back for their Earthquake Appeal ! 🙁
      They built a Dirty Big Mosque with it 🙁

      • Paulina says

        Feb 11, 2016 at 1:37 pm

        The people of Aceh apparently have forgotten all the money and help they got from the West after the 2004 tsunami. The West donated lots of food and medical supply even sending medical personnel. Now 11 years after tsunami, the Muslims are burning and closing churches and persecuting Christians by forcing them to submit to Sharia law. Last month a Muslim woman and man were flogged in public because they were accused of being together. Yet amid this persecution, the population of Christian are growing.

  6. Angry Aussie says

    Feb 9, 2016 at 9:11 pm

    Jemaah Islamiyah are linked to the controversial Bendigo mega mosque that the council in Bendigo, Victoria (Australia) approved. The council in Bendigo are well aware of the terrorist links yet approved the development application, despite the majority of residents being opposed to the mosque. At the last census in 2011, I believe there were 36 people in Bendigo who identified as Muslim. Apparently they need a 2000 person mosque.

    • Paulina says

      Feb 10, 2016 at 12:19 am

      If there were only 36 Muslims, who then financed the Mosque?

      • particolor says

        Feb 10, 2016 at 4:36 am

        Good One Paulina ! That’s what We All want to know ?? I’ll bet its got something to do with that Satanic Mark on the Begemite !! 🙁 And anything else they could Extort ! 🙁

  7. mortimer says

    Feb 9, 2016 at 11:52 pm

    Sharia law promotes terrorism, whereas secular laws promote peace and order and international harmony.

    So secular laws are overruled by Sharia and normative Islam is terrorism.

    Clear. Got it.

    • particolor says

      Feb 10, 2016 at 4:43 am

      Sure Have ! Got it, and GOT THEM ! 🙁 🙁
      When the Greeks came out here years back, Boy am I glad they didn’t DEMAND that we wear Pleated White Tunics and Shoes with Pom Poms on them !! 🙂

      • Sandra Lee Smith says

        Feb 10, 2016 at 2:29 pm

        What? You don’t like their traditional army uniform?

  8. خَليفة says

    Feb 10, 2016 at 2:39 am

    Islam brainwashes its followers. They are taught to obey what you are taught and that what Mohammed did and said is from God. Well trained Muslims lack the ability to use common sense and cannot tell right from wrong. All non Muslim cultures know that killing is wrong, that having sex with prepubescents is wrong, incest is wrong. Muslims follow the Islamic rules of perversion. True human beings know that laws can be wrong – that’s why in the west laws get changed or repealed. Can’t do that in Islam. We in the west know that just because the law says something is ok, does not mean we have to do it if our conscious tells us it is wrong. Muslims lack this inner voice. And true, there are people in the west without conscious.. There were people in the Nazi party who were willing to do heinous thing because the law said it was ok. A problem with Islam is that it cannot change its rules and remain Islam. Islam is doomed to fail, as it did in the past – how many caliphs were killed by rivals who wanted power? It’s only a matter of time, but the loss to humanity of all those Islam will kill is unmeasurable. Islam is too bigoted and hypocritical and ignorant to even realize how wrong and evil it is.

    • Sandra Lee Smith says

      Feb 10, 2016 at 2:31 pm

      EXACTLY!

  9. particolor says

    Feb 10, 2016 at 4:31 am

    Of Coarse He Did ! And that goes for Every other Country they have Invaded Too ! 🙁 🙁

  10. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Feb 10, 2016 at 7:16 am

    The Imam is right, the Holy Ko-Ran is right. Who is some phony judge from where Prez Barack Hussein grew up to question Allah? They must enforce Islamic Law in this trial. We’re all going down, that’s right.

  11. gravenimage says

    Feb 10, 2016 at 11:57 pm

    Indonesia: Muslim cleric who set up jihad terror training camp says, “What I did was right according to Islam”
    ……………………………

    Abu Bakar Bashir is not wrong.

    But many who know nothing about Islam will claim that he is. Worse, many who *know* that Jihad is an intrinsic part of Islam will lie and say he is wrong, and will be believed by any number of foolish Infidels.

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