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Indonesia: Husband, wife jihad suicide bombers underwent government-sponsored deradicalization program

Jul 26, 2019 11:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

“An Indonesian husband and wife who had taken part in a government-sponsored deradicalization program are believed to be the masterminds of a suicide bombing of a Roman Catholic cathedral in the southern Philippines earlier this year that killed more than 20 people.” 102 others were injured.

This is striking, since Indonesia’s Minister of Justice and Human Rights admitted as long as nine years ago that his country’s deradicalization program was a failure.

By now, officials should know that deradicalization programs do not work, because there is no desire on the part of jihadists themselves to make them work. To jihadists, the House of War is the problem; they are working under orders sanctioned in Islamic texts to achieve martyrdom, and there is no state program that can reverse that. Some past Jihad Watch stories about deradicalization programs.

  1. 11 ex-Gitmo prisoners flee the Saudi “rehabilitation program” and join up with terrorist groups
  2. Jaw-dropper: 25 former Gitmo detainees “return to militancy” despite Saudi rehab program!
  3. Graduate from Saudi jihadi rehab program killed in Syrian jihad: “killed a large number of Christians before his acceptance by God”
  4. Flight 253 jihadist wasn’t cured by Saudi anti-jihad art therapy
  5. Former Guantanamo detainee  was transferred to Saudi Arabia in 2006 where he was placed in a national rehabilitation project but became “a top ideologue for al-Qaida in the Arabian peninsula.”
  6. Australia: Multi-million-dollar taxpayer-funded “deradicalization” helpline “failing to gain traction”
  7. France’s de-radicalization program was deemed to be an utter failure. French officials found that “the program actually increased the threat of radicalizing inmates into terrorists rather than diminishing it.”
  8. Last but not least,  In Australia, a Muslim who plotted jihad massacres at Sydney landmarks was part of deradicalization program

So that is the state of affairs with deradicalization programs: they don’t work.

Prasetyo said Zeke and Saleh had previously failed in an attempt to reach Syria with their children, and after returning to Indonesia underwent a government deradicalization program before being released.

The pair clearly cooperated with authorities to save their own skin and obtain early release, and they succeeded. Yet social justice warriors will continue to advocate for them, while the 20 murder victims and the 102 injured will be forgotten.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau thinks that Islamic State jihadists can be a “powerful voice” for deradicalization, and so he has rolled out the welcome mat to them.

“Husband, wife who underwent deradicalization program behind bombing of Philippines cathedral: police,” by Suarez Sang, Fox News, July 24, 2019:

An Indonesian husband and wife who had taken part in a government-sponsored deradicalization program are believed to be the masterminds of a suicide bombing of a Roman Catholic cathedral in the southern Philippines earlier this year that killed more than 20 people.

Police said Tuesday they believe Rullie Rian Zeke and his wife, Ulfah Handayani Saleh, detonated two bombs minutes inside the Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Jolu, Suly province, during Sunday service on January 27.

Twenty people were killed and 102 others injured. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.

Indonesia’s National Police spokesman Dedi Prasetyo said Tuesday they identified Zeke and Saleh as the perpetrators of the attack after they arrested an Islamic militant in East Kalimantan last month. He said the militant, identified only as Yoga, confessed that he’d recruited the couple for the Philippine bombing.

Yoga reportedly told police that he and the couple he recruited for the bombing were part of the Jemaah Anshorut Daulah, a banned Islamic extremist organization in Indonesia that allies itself with ISIS.

The couple’s alleged role in the bombing highlights links between militants across Southeast Asia. Authorities in the region are concerned of Indonesian, Malaysian and Philippine citizens who joined ISIS in Syria and Iraq returning home and carrying out attacks.

Prasetyo said Zeke and Saleh had previously failed in an attempt to reach Syria with their children, and after returning to Indonesia underwent a government deradicalization program before being released.

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  1. Debra Gour says

    Jul 26, 2019 at 11:36 am

    Maybe That’s also why the Democractic Party in USA, & Liberal Party in Canada with all their radical Socialist programs, are part of the Communist/ Islamic Partnership to try & overthrow North American & Western Governments & Countries !*

  2. John bolt says

    Jul 26, 2019 at 12:29 pm

    If you support Islam and let it in your country you get what you deserve no longer can have sympathy for people at this point. The reality is Christians have become huge cucks loving people that hate them and would kill them if they could.

    • CRUSADER says

      Jul 26, 2019 at 1:35 pm

      Far more productive to watch the videos by Jay Smith:

      • Walter Sieruk says

        Jul 27, 2019 at 12:45 pm

        With Islam so much in the news and in such great power in some countries, as Saudi Arabia and Iran, it’s a good thing to define what Islam really is .Of the many ways Islam may be described, one of them is that a religion of denial. Meaning that Islam denies that Jesus is the Son of God. As in the Son of God Who is God the Father. Furthermore, Islam denies the Jesus is God the Son. In addition, Islam denies that Jesus is God.

        Before going over these three denials of Islam it first should the stated the Bible instructs the way to tell if a prophet or religious teacher is really from and of God or not is do the teachings and doctrines of that prophet of teacher really fit in accord what is found in the Bible ? For if that prophet or teachers and teachers doctrines that are in contradiction to the Bible then that prophet is a false prophet and that religious teacher is a false teacher and thus in doctrinal error and darkness. Likewise if a religion had teachings and doctrines that are in contradiction that is religion is in error also part of the world of darkness and is therefore a false religion. As the Bible instructs in Isaiah 8:20. “To the law of the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” [K.J.V.] With this clearly stated, three things should be known.

        First, that Islam denial that Jesus is the Son of God is in great contradiction to the teaching of the Bible . Which reveals the Jesus is the Son of God? As seen in ,for example Matthew 3:16,17. 16:15,16. Luke 1:35. John 3:16-18, 36. First John 2:22,23. 4:14,15. 5:12,13.

        Second, that Islam denies that Jesus is God the Son is in strong contradiction to the Bible. As found in Hebrews 1:6-8. With emphasis on verse 8. Third, Islam’s denial that Jesus is God is in great contrast to the doctrine and teaching of the Bible. That Jesus is God may be found in ,for example, John 1:1;3. Colossians 1:15-17. 2:9. Romans 9:5 Second Peter 1:1. Titus 2:13. First John 5:20.

        Third, to further discover that the Bible teachings that Jesus is God all a person has to do is to compare the Old Testament with New Testament to see that Jesus is God. As in comparing Isaiah 45:22,23. with Philippians 2:5-11. Also by comparing Psalm 89:8,9. with Mathew 8:23-27. will reveal that Jesus is God. Likewise, by comparing Psalm 62:5-7 . with First Corinthians 10:4. shows the Deity of Jesus. Even by comparing the News Testament books together will show that Jesus is God. As in comparing Romans 14:12. with John 5:22. will show Jesus to be God. The list can go on but this should be enough, for all who are willing to see the truth, that Jesus is, indeed, the Son of God. That Jesus is God the Son and that Jesus is God.

        The imams and mullahs as well as the other apologists for Islam will try to “explain’ this all away by making the claim that the Bible had been corrupted by Christians ,through time, and that’s way the Bible reads as it does. This claim, very much, underestimate the Power of God to protect and preserve His Word ,through time , and to keep in intact and away from the corruption of men.

        In conclusion, in light and information of the Bible in can be seen that Islam is a awful and terrible doctrinal error concerning it teaching about the Nature of Jesus and therefore Islam is part of the world of darkness. So Islam with its strong contradictions to the Bible is a false religion, Proverbs 14:12. So all dear Muslims are thus invited to leave the false religion of Islam and come the and receive the Jesus of the Bible who is the only way to heaven, John 14:6. and the True Light of the world. John 8:12.

        To reply to the many apologists for Islam with their many claims to support Islam there’ the Christian site http://www.answering-islam.org

  3. Walter Sieruk says

    Jul 26, 2019 at 3:22 pm

    One of the main reason that deradicalization program didn’t work is because this married Muslim couple both the husband and wife had been so thoroughly indoctrinated by hard core non- watered down jihad Quran based Islam that no de-mind- programming system would have had any effect of them .

    That was how terrible infected they were by in soul ,spirit and mind by Islam’s murderous jihad-tic ways.

    In other words ,they were made crooked and dangerous by the mind control of Islam with its deadly violent and deadly jihad.

    That’s why they couldn’t be helped or straighten- out by a deradicalization program.

    As the ancient Greek playwright, Aristophanes wrote “Even the wisest of the wise can never make a crab walk straight.”

    Likewise the philosopher , Immanuel Kant . had written “Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can be made.”

    The Muslim couple ,husband and wife. had been made crooked by the deceptive and violent influence of Islam.

  4. Angemon says

    Jul 26, 2019 at 5:51 pm

    I suspect it’s easier to implement “real” Communism than an actual deradicalization program for “radicalized” muslims…

  5. gravenimage says

    Jul 26, 2019 at 9:01 pm

    Indonesia: Husband, wife jihad suicide bombers underwent government-sponsored deradicalization program
    ………………….

    We see how well *this* works…

  6. robert_k says

    Jul 27, 2019 at 2:53 am

    Just goes to show you –
    “The Jihadi Suicide bomber couple that slays together, stays together”.

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