Jemaah Islamiah members probably don’t think of this as being as odd as it may appear to non-Muslims in the West. One of the causes that zakat, obligatory Islamic almsgiving, funds is jihad. So there is really no problem here, as far as JI is concerned.
“Feared terrorist leader who is believed to have orchestrated the Bali bombings reveals sick web of secret Jihadist fundraising posing as charity boxes in normal supermarkets,” Australian Associated Press, December 27, 2020:
After 18 years on the run, an Indonesian terrorist leader who orchestrated the Bali bombings has revealed new secrets after his arrest.
Charity boxes in food stalls and mini-marts have been helping to fund radical causes and police believe there could be up to 6,000 active members of Jemaah Islamiah in Indonesia.
JI is the al-Qaeda-linked group which planned and orchestrated the devastating 2002 Bali nightclub bombings which killed 202 people, as well as a string of other bombings in Indonesia.
Indonesian police have revealed that more than 20,000 charity boxes, placed in food stalls, have been used to fund the shady terror group’s operations.
The boxes have been used to collect cash in 12 regions of Indonesia, across Java and Sumatra, and the food stall owners had no idea the money was going to a terror group.
The arrest in November of Aris Sumarsono, known as Zulkarnaen, has thrown a new spotlight on JI and its contemporary incarnation….
mortimer says
NONE of Islamic zakat charity money goes to the dirty KAFIR, but part (or all of it) may go to buy weapons, clothing, food and lodgings for the JIHADISTS.
Western people must learn that Islam’s ZAKAT is NOT *BENIGN*. It is in part malignant and it is a BIGOTED charity.
Mount Zion says
Zakat is also jihad .
gravenimage says
So true.
Michael Copeland says
Is Zulkarnaen the Indonesian equivalent of Dhul-Qarnayn, the Islamic name for Alexander the Great?
Infidel says
Yeah. Although there have been some muslims who claimed that the character wasn’t Alexander, but Cyrus the Great of Persia
The ‘d’ is generally used in Arabic, such as Ramadan, Qadi, Dhul-Qarnayn. The ‘z’ is used in Farsi, Urdu and other Farsi derived languages, so that the same words become Ramzan, Qazi, Zulqarnaen and so on
gravenimage says
Indonesia: Jihad terror group behind Bali bombing that killed 200 raises money with supermarket charity boxes
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Sickening, but who can really be surprised? A major part of Zakat–often mistranslated as “charity”–in Islam goes to funding violent Jihad.