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Indonesia: Muslim cleric masterminded deadly jihad massacres from his jail cell

Jun 24, 2018 8:00 am By Robert Spencer

A Muslim cleric did this? A man who has dedicated his life to understanding Islam properly and communicating it effectively? How did he overlook all of the Qur’an’s exhortations to peace and tolerance that Western non-Muslim analysts are so sure are in there without actually having opened the book?

“Indonesia hands death sentence to Islamic State-linked cleric for militant attacks,” by Agustinus Beo Da Costa and Darren Whiteside, Reuters, June 22, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

JAKARTA (Reuters) – An Indonesian court on Friday sentenced to death a cleric linked to Islamic State, for masterminding from his jail cell a string of deadly militant attacks across the world’s largest Muslim-majority country.

The ruling comes as Indonesia struggles to rein in a rising tide of homegrown militancy, inspired in part by the extremist group Islamic State, with parliament approving tougher anti-terrorism laws last month.

Aman Abdurrahman, 46, is considered the ideological leader of Jemaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) – a loose grouping of Islamic State sympathizers in Indonesia.

“The court sentences the defendant to death,” said the judge, Ahmad Zaini, adding that Abdurrahman had been proved guilty of “carrying out terrorism”.

Abdurrahman bowed and touched his forehead to the floor on hearing the verdict, but did not respond to the judge’s query whether he would appeal against the ruling.

He was convicted of planning a 2016 gun-and-bomb attack in the heart of Jakarta, the capital, that killed eight people, including four attackers.

Abdurrahman was also proved to be behind a suicide attack last year that killed three police officers at a Jakarta bus station and the bombing of a church in Samarinda on Borneo island that wounded four children.

He was serving a sentence in a maximum security prison at the time.

Abdurrahman’s defence team told reporters the sentence was “too harsh”.

“He himself does not have the desire to appeal because he does not recognise the court or Indonesian laws,” said Asludin Hatjani, a lawyer for Abdurrahman, adding that the defence team had a week to consider filing an appeal….

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  1. Craig W says

    Jun 24, 2018 at 11:29 am

    Interrogate and kill is the only way.
    Stop treating these terrorists and clerics like criminals, they are enemies of democracy that will never rehabilitate.

    • Linda says

      Jun 24, 2018 at 12:51 pm

      “Interrogate and kill” is the best solution.

    • PRCS says

      Jun 24, 2018 at 3:35 pm

      They are terrorists who are rightfully subjected to applicable criminal law.

      That he does not recognize the court or Indonesian law will mean nothing when he’s hanging at the end of a rope.

      • boakai ngombu says

        Jun 24, 2018 at 5:45 pm

        isolate, interrogate, decapitate should he remain resolute

        should he be remorseful and desire mercy, find out why.

        people do change and be reoriented

  2. utis says

    Jun 24, 2018 at 8:07 pm

    It’s easy to be a master-mind when your minions are brain-dead. Look at Charles Manson. All you need is charisma, which has little to do with intelligence.

  3. gravenimage says

    Jun 24, 2018 at 8:44 pm

    Indonesia: Muslim cleric masterminded deadly jihad massacres from his jail cell
    ……………….

    This should surprise no one.

  4. CS says

    Jun 25, 2018 at 12:52 am

    Spencer’s sarcasm is priceless.

  5. MT rancher says

    Jun 25, 2018 at 8:10 am

    Too harsh, no, not at all, just making arrangements for a fan to meet his favorite star in person. When the Crusades resume, there will be a lot of this going on.

  6. Vicky says

    Jun 25, 2018 at 3:40 pm

    Not one muslim should exist in this country. Islam is incompatible with any people other than other islamists. Even then, they slaughter each other over differences. They are savages who practice a savage pagan religion.

  7. TheBuffster says

    Jun 26, 2018 at 8:24 pm

    “Abdurrahman’s defence team told reporters the sentence was ‘too harsh’.”

    When you conduct your vicious crimes from a jail cell, when you’ve proven being in prison can’t stop your crimes, you should expect the next step will be execution.

    Maybe you wouldn’t expect that in a Western country, but in Indonesia, where drug crime is a capital offense, you should perhaps be wondering why you, a jihad plotter of mass murder, were allowed to live in the first place.

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