Because they wanted to “get rid of sinful deeds,” i.e., things that are against Sharia.
“Radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir backs Bali bombers, vows to enforce Islamic law in Indonesia,” South China Morning Post, October 11, 2022 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A radical Indonesian Muslim cleric, thought to be behind the 2002 terrorist bombings that killed 202 people on the resort island of Bali, said in a recent interview that he still believes Indonesia should implement Islamic law, vowing to work to make it happen.
Abu Bakar Bashir, 84, who was freed last year after serving time in a separate case for funding a militant training camp, spoke with Kyodo News last month near Solo on the main island of Java ahead of the bombings’ 20th anniversary on Wednesday.
Bashir is the alleged spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiah, a militant group to which the perpetrators of the Bali attack belonged. The group is also linked to the international terrorism network al-Qaeda.
The attack on Bali nightclubs crowded with foreign tourists killed 88 Australians, the most among foreign nations. Two Japanese also died. Indonesia experienced a slew of terror attacks in subsequent years, including the bombing of an upscale hotel in Jakarta in 2003 that killed 12 people….
In the interview, Bashir said the attack was wrong but that he believes three men executed in 2008 for their involvement in the bombings had “good intentions and purposes” because they were trying to “get rid of sinful deeds” such as music and alcohol that go against Islamic law.
During his trial over the bombings, Bashir was found to have given his blessing when the plan was insinuated before the attack. The Supreme Court overturned the determination, finding no orders given by the cleric or conspiracy involving him….
“What we have to do now is work hard to make Indonesia implement Islamic law because Indonesia is actually supposed to be an Islamic state. But successive governments have not been willing to implement it,” the cleric said….
Wearing a white robe, the white-bearded Bashir still routinely leads an Islamic prayer five times a day at a big mosque at the centre of his Al-Mukmin Islamic school….
Wellington says
In microcosm, dispositive of just how evil Islam truly is precisely to the extent that its tenets are implemented.
European pagan says
In Aceh there is already sharia… which part of the country will be the next one?
somehistory says
he has no conscience. he was born with one as are all humans; but he burned it by his many thoughts about murdering others and then following the thoughts with actions, for which he has no remorse. This is one of the signs of a psychopath.
CogitoErgoSum says
Even though this man is 84 years old he does not yet understand the difference between getting rid of a “sinful deed” and getting rid of a human being. He will never learn the difference either because his religion has him wasting his time praying for other people to die. At least the world will soon be rid of him. It is not a better place because he was here. He just added more crap to the pile.
tim gallagher says
It was very big news in Australia yesterday, the main story on the TV news, that the Bali Bombing happened 20 years ago. 88 Australians died in the attack since bali has long been a very popular tourist destination for Australians. This endlessly smiling piece of shit, Bashir, has been familiar to everybody here in Australia over the years as he was jailed then released, with the murderous creature always smiling like a brain damaged piece of crap. Hopefully, the evil brain dead creature will be off to fry in Hell quite soon.
James Lincoln says
tim gallagher says,
“This endlessly smiling piece of shit, Bashir…”
Perfect description.
tim gallagher says
Thanks, James, the constant smile that this shithead always had is certainly what struck me and most other people. He certainly seems to love his work, encouraging his fellow scum to commit terrorist acts. Yet another of the murderous monsters that islam produces in such huge numbers on its evil production line.
david1508 says
Yes, and all the Australians who went there on the anniversary are outraged over the way the Indonesian government presented it. To me it was a backhanded way of Indonesia saying it was okay for the Muslims to have killed the infidels that day.
https://www.news.com.au/travel/destinations/asia/bali/traumatic-bali-bombings-service-showed-the-bombers-and-attacks/news-story/0446f8d41f4237d0b22bb062a305133d
tim gallagher says
I agree with you, david1508. I can’t see any other way to interpret the foul garbage that went on at that ceremony in Bali. It had to be the Muslim Indonesian government trying to insult the Australians there. No surprise really. Indonesia is a Muslim country and is always going to be an enemy of any non-Muslim country such as Australia.
Walter Sieruk says
Those Muslim terrorists murderers in their Islamic worldview probably did have “good intentions.” in that they were following Islam’s “Qu ‘ran in what many violent jihadists call “the jihad of the sword.”
For the Qu ‘ran does instruct “O you who believe ! Fight those of the disbelievers who are close to you and let them find harshness in you…” 9:123. Likewise, the Qu’ran also instructs in 47:4 “”When you encounter the disbelievers strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them…”
As for the second verse still allies to the Bali bombings ,because the terrible harsh is that using bombs instead of swords is a very cruel but effective way of making a great slaughter among them”
Therefore those murderous jihadists were also devolt Muslims following in the Qu’ ran based way of the jihad. So in that sense only they had “good intentions.” That only proves that the old saying has to be true . Which is that “The the road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
That old proverb is literally true for those jihadist/Muslims who engaged those deadly Bali jihad attacks.
For they are now suffering in fires of terrible phace the Bible called Hell.” Luke 16: 19: 28.
As the Bible informs its reader that a murder ” shall not inherit the kingdom of God.” Galatians 5;21.
Likewise Revelations 21:8. further confirms that verse in Galatians about murderers.
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Walter Sieruk says
Those Muslim terrorists who engaged in those murderous Bali jihad bombing might have had, in their deluded brainwashed Islamic worldview, “good intentions and purposes’ Yet the reality is that they were wrong, very wrong, dead wrong.
Walter Sieruk says
The date of this posting is October 12, 2022 which is the twentieth anniversary of those horrendous malicious and murderous affronts of the Indonesian island resort bombings in which 202 people were murdered, some of who were Americans, and 209 other people had been terrible injured in those vicious jihad Muslim terrorists attack for the cause of Islam.
Those Islamic mass murder terrorists attacks which occurred at the Bali resort does lead to the need that what is called “Radical Islamic Terrorism” , is very much based on religion. The religion of Islam For Islam’s “holy book” the Qur ‘an [the Koran] instructs on the use of violence and killing for the advancement of Islam. As found in ,for example 2:191. 4:89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4.
Furthermore, it may be illustrated that if Islam is represented as a tree then the fruits then the fruits of that tree are the many brutal, violent and deadly jihad terror entities. Such as Jemaah Islamiyah, al Qaeda, ISIS, Hamas, Hezbollah, P.I.J. etc. With this statement, the Wisdom of the teachings of Jesus may, very much, apply to this subject. For Jesus taught “Ye do know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.” After saying this Jesus told them what He told them when He said “By their fruit ye shall know them.” Matthew 7:16, 17, 18,.20. [K.J.V.]
In conclusion, Islam is a corrupt tree and also a false religion, Proverbs 14:12. John 14:6. First John 2:22,23. 4:14,15. 5:12,13,20.
Walter Sieruk says
The specific date of this posting is October 12, 2022, which means it’s exactly 20 since those murderous jihadist Bali bombings on the Indonesian Island at a nightclub which killed murdered 202 and terribly injured 209 other human beings.
Of that day 10/ 12/02 some of those dangerous and deadly jihadists were Muslim suicide /homicide bombers.
Those murderous affronts of that horrendous jihad mass- murder Islamic attacks. Which was the outcome of the Islamic doctrine from the Qu‘’ran [the Koran] of a sexual paradise with many virgins, houris , in it for the male Muslim /jihadist who dies fighting in the jihad for the cause of Islam is found in the “holy book” of Islam, the Koran, in Sura 44:54. 55: 56. 78:31. Also there is the Koranic instruction of Sura 9:111 which teaches “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.” Getting back to the origin doctrine of Islam from the Koran of a sex –filled paradise with many houris for the use only by the male jihadist who dies fight for the advancement of Islam.
All this started when the founder and prophet of Islam, Muhammad manufactured Islam he put, had stolen, some of sex doctrine of Zoroastrian mythology and a yet smaller bit of Hindu mythological sex teachings along with as well as mixture pagan Arabian folklore and myth plus a heavy dose of Judaism and Christianity. Also, some of it apostate “Christianity” For the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, couldn’t discern the difference between genuine Bible based Christianity and bogus “Christianity.”
Those words and teaching Muhammad gathered from many sources, including the virgins /sex place mythology. , and taught as “Divine Truth” were written down on many things then later compiled and then went into the composition of the Koran. So, the hoax of the Koran is actually a mixture and fusion Judaism Christianity and mythology of other religions and now the Muslim clerics with the Koranic brainwashing of young Muslims who are thoroughly mind programmed into believing this Islamic/Koranic virgins’ myth.
This deception of false doctrine /myth into the thoughts of some people was predicted in the Bible along with the false teachers who engage in the indoctrination of such a myth /doctrine into the minds and hearts other people. For it is written “For the time will come when they will not stand wholesome teaching but will follow their own fancy and gather a crown of teachers to tickle their ears. They will stop their ears to the truth and turn to mythology.” Second Timothy 4:3,4. [N.E.B.]
Devasur says
What is that sex teachings of Hindu and Zoroastrianism? Infact when did he even get contact with Hindus?
Walter Sieruk says
To Devasur, a number of scholars believe so , them such religious writings, especially more with the religion of Zoroastrianism
Scotsman48 says
The men that were busted for the Bali bombing were from Malaysia, this old fart may have been their leader but this old fart is the kind of Generals that send somebody else’s children off to do his dirty work… He is an evil self righteous old bastard.
I was in Bali just before and shortly after the first Bali bombing but know that Bali is NOT an islamic Island as it is in fact a Hindu Island a tiny part of the huge Archipelago of Indonesia.
The real islamic part of Indonesia in Aceh at the far western side of Sumatra, the rest of the country is catching up, but there are parts of that country full of non muslims, with Christians, Buddhists, Hindus and other religious Sects.
Hank says
If Australians are outraged by this Muslim cleric, his followers and their Islamic mindset and ideology – then why do they keep importing it? Why do they procrastinate in repatriating it? Why do they keep accommodating it? Its not rocket science.