Author: sheikyermami

Muhammad riding a four legged donkey-bitch called ‘buraq’ –

In Islamic tradition, a creature said to have transported the Prophet Muhammad to heaven. Described as “a white animal, half-mule, half-donkey, with wings on its sides . . . ,” Buraq was originally introduced into the story of Muhammad’s night journey (isra’) from Mecca to Jerusalem and back, thus explaining how the journey between the cities could have been completed in a single night. In some traditions he became a steed with the head of a woman and the tail of a peacock.

In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger. Palestine is the land of Isra ‘ and Mi`raj (Night Journey and Ascension). It is the blessed land where Jesus was born and Muhammad led all other Prophets in Prayer. Thus, it is the duty of every sincere Muslim to spare no efforts in backing its people and contribute in the so many efforts to restore this land.

* For starters, there is no “Palistan’, never was, never happened, Jesus got nothing to do with Muhammedanism, and Muhammad never went to Jerusalem and the murderous SOB never went to heaven. Muhammad was no prophet and never ‘led any prophets in prayer’.

Arabs invaded Israel in big numbers after Jews came back to lay claim to their ancestral homeland. That’s all. Now go and do what you do best, you Arabs: kill each other and f*kc goats…

France: Sex with the goats is not recommended. 

Fitzgerald: Reversing the roles of the Arabs and Israel

* Aisha explained: “The apostle’s body remained where it was but God removed his spirit by night.”

* There you have it: his child bride said ‘the SoB never went anywhere…’

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Volume 1, Book 5, Number 268:
Narrated Qatada:

Anas bin Malik said, “The Prophet used to visit all his wives in a round, during the day and night and they were eleven in number.” I asked Anas, “Had the Prophet the strength for it?” Anas replied, “We used to say that the Prophet was given the strength of thirty (men).” And Sa’id said on the authority of Qatada that Anas had told him about nine wives only (not eleven).

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Hadith Sahih Bukhari – Prophet Muhammad’s Sayings

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Did you know that old women don’t get to go to Muhammad’s heaven?

Hasan radiallaahu ‘anhu said: That a certain old woman came to the Prophet and requested him to pray to Allaah to make her enter paradise. The Prophet said, ‘O mother of so and so! No old woman shall enter into paradise’. The narrator says that on hearing this the old woman went back weeping. The Prophet said to the people around him to go and tell the old woman that she would not enter into paradise as an old woman. (Tirmidhi) Then he recited the verse:

“Verily we! We have created those (maidens) by a creation and have made them virgins, loving, of equal age” Qur’aan 56: 35-37

Muhammad’s Women:

Muhammed’s marriages are said to have been of a different nature. Some of his wives had belonged to clans he had conquered by force. Others were women he had lusted for and married with pleasure. Those beautiful women who were married to Muhammed became an object of jealousy to Aisha and some of his earlier wives, who were either too young or too old to be able to satisfy Muhammed’s sexual needs. With such a group of women, one wonders how he could have satisfied them and maintained equality between the various women he had access to.

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“No Jew is innocent”

* Kudos to Judeopundit

Islam Online: “the Jews in Palestine have emigrated from various countries, and they have no right in this land”

It has been a while since we last visited the “Ask the Scholar” feature at Islam Online. This one concerns “Fight Ethics Between Islam and Zionism.” When is it permissible to kill civilians?

Originally, it is prohibited to kill civilians, women, and children, but certain cases are exempted from this:

1. When all individuals on the enemy side participate in war, as then the term “civilian” would not apply to them.

2. When civilians do things to help militants, as then what they do would be regarded as a “military action.”

3. When warriors use civilians, women, and children as a shield and there is no way for Muslim warriors to reach those militants except by killing those civilians.

4. When the enemies kill Muslim civilians, for then their civilians may be treated the same.

5. When a civilian “accepts” usurping a (Muslim) land, he is considered an occupier, and is not a civilian any more.

6. When children themselves are not intended (or targeted) to be killed (deliberately) without doing anything wrong or committing any crime.

It is well known that Israelis, men and women, indulge in war against Palestinians, so they are warriors. They are also usurpers of the (Palestinian) land, because the Jews in Palestine have emigrated from various countries, and they have no right in this land. In Islam, it is obligatory to liberate any Islamic land from occupation. It should also be known that jihad against the Jews is not because they are Jews, but because they are usurpers and warriors.

Glad that was straightened out.

Hmm, that was yesterday…Saif Al-Islam Gadhafi says the two hostages to be freed soon

Saif al-Islam must have changed his mind:

Libya charity denies Austria hostages mediation

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – An organisation led by a son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi denied on Sunday that it was negotiating the release of two Austrians believed held by al Qaeda in north Africa.

The Gaddafi Foundation charity was responding to a report by Carinthia governor Joerg Haider on Saturday that its chairman Saif al-Islam was in touch with the kidnappers in Mali to try to obtain the release of the hostages.

“Gaddafi Foundation affirms that it has not undertaken any measures or efforts or contacts, whether direct or indirect, with the kidnappers despite the Foundation, and its chairman, having received several demands to do so.”

However on Sunday the Austrian news agency APA quoted Haider as saying in response to the foundation’s denial: “It is not an initiative of the foundation but his (Saif al-Islam’s) own … it is a secret action.”

The reported role of Gaddafi’s son, who has studied in Austria and is a friend of right-wing populist Haider, raised some hopes for the release of the two Austrian tourists who were seized in Tunisia last month and are reported to be held in northern Mali.

The Algerian-based al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb said it seized the two on February 22 and has demanded a ransom and the liberation of 10 militants held in Algeria and Tunisia. It has set a deadline of midnight on Sunday for its demands to be met.

Haider’s spokesman said on Saturday that “negotiations in Mali have reached a decisive phase and … in the next few hours there could be a decision in this matter … a release.”

Saif al-Islam was involved in negotiations last year to free six foreign medics sentenced to death for infecting Libyan children with HIV.

Austria has launched an intense diplomatic campaign to try to obtain the release of Andrea Kloiber, 43, and Wolfgang Ebner, 51, sending a diplomatic envoy to the Malian capital Bamako and seeking the help of regional states like Libya.

The Austrian envoy in Bamako, Anton Prohaska, said on Saturday he remained hopeful the two would be freed unharmed.

Mali’s government has been trying to help Austria obtain the release of the two tourists. Local military sources believe they are being held at a Saharan Islamist hideout in Mali’s remote northeast region of Kidal that borders with Algeria and Niger.

Al Qaeda has warned that any attempt to launch a military operation to free the captives could result in their death.

Profile: Colonel Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam

The eccentric Libyan leader’s son, Saif al-Islam, has emerged as the key broker in Tripoli’s detente with the West, report Alastair Jamieson and Colin Freeman.

Telegraph UK

Nice try, though:

 Body not that of Indonesian militant

Article from: Agence France-Presse

INDONESIAN police say a body recovered in the Philippines is not that of a key Islamic militant wanted over the 2002 Bali bombings.

Philippine authorities had said the body was believed to be Dulmatin, who was thought to have been wounded in a clash with government troops in the region in January.

“The team has returned from the Philippines and we affirm that the exhumed body was not that of Dulmatin,” the newspaper’s website quoted Indonesian national police spokesman Anton Bachrul Alam as saying.

The US Government has offered $US10 million ($11m) for Dulmatin, who was once a senior figure in the radical Jemaah Islamiah (JI) movement and is believed to have been hiding in the southern Philippines for the past five years.

Mr Alam said police would wait for DNA test results to be released by their Philippine counterparts for final confirmation that the body, found in a shallow grave on Tawi-Tawi island in February, did not belong to the militant.

Dulmatin is accused of helping JI plan and carry out the 2002 Bali bombings, which killed 202 people on the Indonesian holiday island, most of them foreign tourists.

Sidney Jones, an expert on JI, said last month that JI contacts in Indonesia would have likely known if Dulmatin was dead.

Whitest Kids – Hitler Rap

Discovered on the Gates of Vienna site

* “Islam has nothing to do with terrorism…” (robert fisk)

Qur’an 8:59 “The infidels should not think that they can get away from us. Prepare against them whatever arms and weaponry you can muster so that you may terrorize them.”

* Click on image to enlarge..!

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The willful ignorance & stupidity of Danish PM Rasmussen

Danish prime minister condemns Wilders’ remarks on Islam

Rasmussen calls Wilders’ remarks about Muslims “sickening.”

COPENHAGEN – Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen rejected praise from controversial Dutch politician Geert Wilders and condemned Wilders’ “sickening” and “coarse” remarks about Muslims.

In an interview published Wednesday in the Danish daily Jyllands Posten, Rasmussen was responding to remarks by Wilders during a visit to Copenhagen earlier in the week praising the Danish leader for his “courageous defence” of freedom of expression.
Rasmussen said he strongly distanced himself “from Wilders’ debasing remarks about Muslims,” and called Wilders’ views “incredibly sickening.”

Wilders, the Dutch politician controversial for his anti-Islam views and plans to release a film about the Koran, had called Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende a “coward” for his critical stance against the film project. Wilders wants to ban the Koran, comparing it with Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.”

“Wilders’ comments about Muslims are so coarse, that I would not want to see any group in Danish society attacked in such a way,” the Copenhagen leader told Jyllands Posten.

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To Fitna or not to Fitna? 

 No movie after all?

Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch:

By now the idea is spreading all over the place that there is no movie Fitna, and never will be — that Geert Wilders simply announced that there would be to expose Islamic intolerance.

I have no direct knowledge either way, but I’m inclined to credit this idea at this point, since the film has not appeared now on several dates on which it had been announced to appear. Maybe it will finally burst upon the world, but I won’t be surprised if it never does.

And look what we have seen: for the mere announcement that he was making a film quoting the Qur’an and showing Muslims acting violently in accord with its words, we have seen threats from several Muslim countries, threats from Al-Qaeda, demonstrations in the Netherlands and around the world, and quailing dhimmitude from the august leaders of Europe, as they cringed before the anticipated Islamic wrath, and from Network Solutions, as they pulled Wilders’s site while it was almost entirely devoid of content.

Note, meanwhile, that hardly a day goes by on which some Muslims somewhere do not commit an act of violence that they deem to be justified by the words of the Qur’an. Jihadist leaders routinely invoke Qur’anic passages to explain their actions and make recruits among peaceful Muslims. In other words, we see the announced theme of Wilders’s Fitna played out every day, not by non-Muslims but by Muslims — and there is nary a peep of protest from anyone. Muslims in the West issue vague denunciations of “terrorism,” but never specifically explain whom they actually believe to be a terrorist, and there are no protests, no threats, no nothing against those who have supposedly “hijacked” their religion.

Maybe that was Wilders’s point all along, and it is a point well made, made again and again and again.

That was quick:

After throwing his white grandmother under a bus and failing to sell his Muslim grandmother in Kenya as a ‘Christian’ Obama denounces his radical pastor. What’s next..?

* The Bommah & his spiritual advisor: here today, gone tomorrow, never happened…

WASHINGTON (CNN) — After tapes of inflammatory statements made by Sen. Barack Obama’s pastor came out last weekend, it appears to have had some negative impact on the Illinois senator.

* Victor Davis Hanson: The Obama Crash and Burn

* 2nd Obama-linked pastor under fire for racist talk:

Minister called U.S. mayors ‘slave masters,’ blacks who protect white men ‘house n-ggers’

“The N-word is not in the African-American community a bad word. It’s a term of endearment. And I don’t see it as derogatory or defensive, offensive.”

That’s cool! Think I’m go get away with it bro?

By Aaron Klein

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* Today’s Islam lesson:

The Best of Peoples in Allah’s Eyes

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OBAMA’S TIES TO FUNDING TERRORISTS

Thanks to Pamela/Atlas Shrugs

From left to right, Michelle Obama, then Illinois state senator Barack Obama, Columbia University Professor Edward Said and Mariam Said at a May 1998 Arab community event in Chicago at which Edward Said gave the keynote speech. (Image from archives of Ali Abunimah)

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Krauthammer: Obama’s speech a brilliant fraud

“I can no more disown [Wright] than I can my white grandmother.” What exactly was Grandma’s offense?

She was afraid of black men. That made her a ‘typical white woman’ in the eyes of the Bommah.

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Stop Press! Stop Press! “Wright is victim of lynching!” Halleluja!

Reverend Wright’s disgusting diatribes now packaged as justifiable “black anger” can translate further ………….. Islamic jihad is justifiable as “Muslim anger”. Moral inversion of the first order. Only a morally ill society could fall for this malevolent tripe. (Atlas)

‘You picked the wrong folk to mess with,’” Moss said to an enthusiastic congregation, standing up during much of the sermon, titled “How to Handle a Public Lynching.”

* Uhh brother! its all our fault:

Though the church recently moved a once-prominent section on its Web site about the “Black Value System,” the congregation still describes itself as “unashamedly black and unapologetically Christian.” A plaque states this prominently behind the front desk.

* Not so sure about ‘Christian’. But yeah: read it if you must…

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But you don’t want this in the white house either:

Hahaha!

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Predictable:

Yusuf Irfan, Australia’s best looking Islamofascist clown, finds Abu Bakr Bashirs sermons ‘disturbing’. (many of us may find Yusuf ‘disturbing..’) Unfortunately for Yusuf Irfan from planet Islam, Bashir has been on record preaching the same bile for decades and is unlikely to change in his old age, after being treated with velvet gloves and a slap on the wrist for the Bali bombings.

But Yusufs Islamic duty is to sing a lullaby to the irritated infidels who might find the bile and the venom of the Bashir-reptiles of this world objectionable, because they are after all ‘good Muslims’, and the Islamic message in this case is ‘don’t wake up sleeping dog’s, the best time to attack is when the enemy sleeps…’ just like his Muslim brother Tariq Ramadan, who insisted in Vienna recently that the real goal of Islam must be kept a secret from the public. What a strange hard-boiled declaration at a meeting which he knew would be reported by the press. Does Yusuf, just like Tariq Ramadan, both calculate cynically on the general repression mechanism of the “unbelievers”?

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“The Oz hatchets work of research student …”

Yusuf really rubs it:

Basyir’s (Bashir’s) comments, if correctly translated, are disturbing. However, they also reflect the resentment which many Indonesians feel toward a minority of foreign tourists who use their holiday in Bali and other places as an opportunity to buy, sell and consume narcotics and engage in acts which even most Australians would class as sexual deviancy.

* None of your business, Yusuf! ‘Sexual Deviants’ Only!

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* Goodness Yusuf: get a life! The biggest drug consumers and sexual deviants in Bali are not foreign tourists. But even if they were, does that make it alright to bomb and kill them? It is none of your business what grown people do behind closed doors, Yusuf. Obviously you find yourself in agreement with the poisonous snake Bashir, and that is DISTURBING Yusuf, it really is!

* then comes the inevitable ‘tiny minority of extremists’ bullshit:

‘There are about 16,000 pesantren in Indonesia but only about four of them have ever been identified as giving training linked to acts of terrorism,’ he said …

Yep, that’s right. A total of four (4). Out of 16,000. That means around 0.025% of Indonesian religious schools could be described as terrorist training camps.

* Doubt it. But it only takes one demented co-religionist of yours to blow up a nightclub, Yusuf. That’s ONE TOO MANY!!!

Read it all

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Jemaah Islamiyah 

Barnabas Fund has received credible reports that the Al-Qaeda linked terrorist organisation Jemaah Islamiyah has threatened to target Christians in Indonesia this Easter. Jemaah Islamiyah has been responsible for many attacks in the past – it is believed to have organised the Bali bombings in 2002 and 2005, and bomb attacks at churches on Christmas Eve in 2000.

Jemaah Islamiyah is dedicated to creating a single Islamic state throughout South-East Asia under shari`a law. It considers non-Muslims as legitimate targets and is active throughout the region. The organisation is closely linked to Al-Qaeda, and has shown that is it able to carry out devastating attacks, such as the Bali bombings in 2002 which killed 202 people. On Christmas Eve, 2000, Jemaah Islamiyah bombed several churches in Jakarta, Bandung and Riau, killing 18 people and injuring more than a hundred.

Threats to Christians on major celebrations such as Easter and Christmas are frequent in Indonesia, and security guards are often posted outside churches at this time. Some churches in Jakarta keep metal detectors near their entrances to try to thwart bomb attacks. This Easter will therefore be a time of great anxiety for Indonesia`s Christians.

Source: Barnabas Fund

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“Instead of being angry at those who give his presumably peaceful religion a bad name, he condemned me for reading their quotes”

About the hopelessness of debating Muslims. By John David Lewis at The Objective Standard via Jihad Watch

This is evasion par excellence—to condemn those who raise Islam’s violent past and present rather than have to face the fact that the vision of idyllic peace that one associates with one’s religion has no basis in reality.

(I at least got a good laugh out of this exchange when I concretized the meaning of the tax on subjugated peoples. Suppose a Mafia thug came to your door, I said, and he offered to protect you for, say, $100 a month. You would ask the thug, “From whom do I need protection?” to which he would reply: “Us.”)

Read it all

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Appeasing Idiots of the World, Unite! 

Everyone urged to upload ‘Fitna’ apology

Dutch say ‘sorry’ for anti-Islam film

DUBAI (AlArabiya.net)

* One of the campaign videos mocking Wilders (Screenshot)

A Dutch activist group has called for a mass online apology campaign to “smother out” the soon-to-be-released anti-Islamic movie by a right wing politician.

Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders says he plans to broadcast his film “Fitna” — Challenge in Arabic – on the web sometime in the next two weeks. The 15-minute movie denounces the Quran as a “fascist” book.

On Monday, Amsterdam-based cultural organization Mediamatic called on Dutch citizens “to make their own version of Fitna in which they apologize for Wilders’ embarrassing behavior”.

“If everybody joins in it will be hard to find the video by Wilders without finding lots of movies apologizing for it,” said a statement released by the organization.

“Just to let the world (and ourselves) know that allowing opportunists to speak does not mean that we agree with what they say,” the statement added.

Willem Velthoven of Mediamatic urges people to “act as a look-a-like of the politician” by putting on a blonde wig, and then film themselves apologizing using a mobile phone or video camera.

He urged people to publish their apologies as many times as possible on sites such as Youtube, Hyves, Facebook and Myspace, calling it “Fitna by Geert Wilders”.

“Because of the freedom of speech, Mediamatic doesn’t want to stop the Fitna video,” the statement said. “What Mediamatic can do is to stimulate disinformation…[in] hopes that Wilders will be smothered in apologies”.

* Stupid is as stupid does. You wish it would hurt… 

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Clitman’s Toxic Legacy Kills:

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Bunglawussy Watch:

Introducing Jack Shaheen, Arab Islamo-Bullshit Peddler

George Clooney, center, consulted with author Jack Shaheen while filming “Syriana,” which deals with work and politics in the Middle East.

‘Jack’ Shaheen

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“When I grew up, it was Native Americans. Blacks. … We had the red scare with Communists. So we have all of these formulas from the past that sort of make their way to the present.

“Now it’s Arab equals Muslim equals the godless enemy Other. And it’s hard, because once we begin to get a fixed image of a people or a faith in our minds, it’s difficult to shake.”

So far, Shaheen says he has tried to do his part. But for real change to take place, he said, politicians, celebrities and industry heads are going to have to take a stand, too.

“Silence means approval, and at some point these guys have to say, ‘Intolerance is intolerance. It’s just as wrong to vilify an Arab as it is a Jew or a black, and we need to stop.’ “

* Actually, NOT! We don’t have to tolerate the intolerant. And we don’t have to stop to expose them, the bullshit has to stop. the terror has to stop. the Islamo-BS has has to stop.

* Jack Shaheen to Discuss Stereotyping of Arabs in the Media

* This is the kind of bullshit jack Shaheen peddles:

JOHN DONVAN Interview:

But, what do you do about the fact that, particularly for Americans particularly after September 11 th, they have seen an extreme act of violence perpetrated in the name of Islam, perpetrated by those who did the deed …

JACK SHAHEEN

Absolutely. Absolutely. Well, you have 19 Arab Muslim terrorists responsible for the death of 3,000 innocent Americans. 3,000 of us. And they’re Arab Muslims, right? Do their actions represent 1.2 billion Muslims? When we see Catholic priests and other men who abuse their faith and seduce and malign young boys, does that mean everyone in the faith is a child molester? The problem is and continues to be, unfortunately, that we have this “Islamophobia” in our country that everything Muslim is associated with evil. And we have these evil men who did these terrible things and they said they did it in the name of Islam.

* They did, Jack. They did it in the name of Islam. OBL & Zawahiri always justify their actions with the relevant Koran sura’s. And they’re proud of it. Your Islamic clerics are pretty good child molesters too, especially your prophet married Aisha when she was 6 and consummated his ‘marriage’ when she was 9. But now you want to tell us that Catholic priests and other men who abuse their faith are just as bad as the 19 hijackers who killed 3000 Americans on 9/11 screaming ‘Allahu akbar?’

Get real Jack: cut the BS: the terrorists motivation is ISLAM!

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The Madrassah Attack That No One Ever Heard About:

Here is another typical BS story from MPACUK, also reported on the Bunglawussy ‘Islamophobia Watch’ site. If it really happened there would be riots all over England now, but as it is they don’t even remember the date correctly. (just scroll down on the MPACUK site: First it was “On Thursday 13th of March between 5pm and 8 pm in Dudley Hill in Bradford, West Yorkshire, a Madrassah was attacked”- then the original poster ‘Victor Hugo’ claims “Sorry I made a little error. I have just been told that the incident didn’t take place on the 13th of March, but on the 6th March a week before the date I have mentioned.

Sorry about that, I was just told it happened last thursday but it was the thursday before. Because of no media coverage I couldn’t be sure..”

Bradford madrassa atacked

On Thursday 13th of March between 5pm and 8 pm in Dudley Hill in Bradford, West Yorkshire, a Madrassah was attacked.

20 white youths wearing hoodies rushed the madrassah armed with hammers, axes and baseball bats. They attacked everyone in the madrassah. There were young kids in there aged between 9 and 19 who were also attacked and beaten by these thugs. And the teachers were also given a kicking. Most of the students from the madrassah have been hospitalised. It was just sheer luck that no one was killed.
Source

Natasha Robinson/The Australian

ISLAMIC cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has returned to his hardline rhetoric with a call for followers to “beat up” Western tourists and for young Muslims to die as martyrs.

* Bashir is a ‘good Muslim’, you see. One who takes his Islam seriously. Who would accuse him of being a ‘misunderstander of Islam?’ Jews and Christians are under Allah’s curse (9:30) and unbelievers are the “vilest of creatures” (98:6)

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In the sermon, organised by an Islamic youth organisation and delivered a few kilometres from the home village of convicted Bali bombers Amrozi and Mukhlas, Bashir likened tourists in Bali to “worms, snakes, maggots”, and specifically referred to the immorality of Australian infidels.

The address was caught on video by an Australian university student.

“The youth movement here must aspire to a martyrdom death,” said the cleric, who was convicted of conspiracy over the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians, but was later cleared and released from prison.

“The young must be first at the front line – don’t hide at the back. You must be at the front, die as martyrs and all your sins will be forgiven. This is how to achieve forgiveness.”

Observers said the sermon’s content was a clear indication of what many terrorism academics have noted – that the accused spiritual head of Jemaah Islamiah has been emboldened by his release from prison last year after serving 26 months for conspiracy in relation to the Bali blasts.

“Immediately after Abu Bakar Bashir was released from incarceration he was very cautious in spreading hatred,” said Rohan Gunaratna, head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University. “The remarks show that Abu Bakar Bashir has gone back to the pre-incarceration period where he was in a very similar way urging JI members, encouraging JI members to move in the direction of violence, especially violence including terrorism.”

The sermon was organised by the youth group Persatuan Pemuda Islam Pantura (Java North Coast Islamic Youth Group) and delivered on October 22 last year.

It was captured on videotape by Darwin-based political science PhD student Nathan Franklin, who was conducting research at Islamic boarding schools in east Java.

Bashir’s address was observed by the village’s police chief and a horde of plain-clothes Indonesian police officers. It was also attended by relatives of Amrozi, who travelled to the sermon from the Bali bomber’s former Islamic boarding school on the village’s outskirts.

The cleric has warned of retribution should the Bali bombers be executed by firing squad.

During the sermon, Bashir talked of a previous visit to Australia, claiming that he had wanted to see the “beauty of the ocean” but was told by a friend there was “one condition” of a visit to the beach.

“He said if you enter that area you must be completely naked,” Bashir told the crowd of about 300 hearing his sermon.

Bashir likened non-Muslims to crawling animals. “Worms, snakes, maggots – those are animals that crawl.
Take a look at Bali … those infidel tourists. They are naked.”

He called for signs to be erected across Indonesia warning tourists they were entering a Muslim area, and directing they cover up appropriately. But in east Java, he urged the Islamist youth to “beat up” foreigners.

“God willing, there are none here,” Bashir said. “If there were infidels here, just beat them up. Do not tolerate them.”
Bashir has never sought to hide his support for the Mujahideen, or holy warriors, who seek to wage jihad and die as martyrs in defence of Islam. However, he has in the past been careful to distance himself from the Bali bombings, praising the bombers’ intention but not their method.

* That’s BS. Bashir supports them all the way and recently visited Amrozi, Muklas & Samudra in jail…

* Anger as radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir visits Bali bombers

Mr Franklin, who is completing a doctorate in political science specialising in Indonesian politics, agreed that Bashir’s radical address proved the cleric had been emboldened by his early release from prison and was seemingly intent on attracting greater publicity for his cause. “Going to jail, serving a very light sentence, and becoming a media icon – it’s the best thing that’s happened to him,” Mr Franklin said.

He said Bashir sensed his opportunity for greater power and influence as Indonesia increasingly moved away from secularism towards Islamic law.

The PhD student will screen extracts of the Bashir video, which has been sub-titled, at Charles Darwin University in Darwin on Friday as part of an academic talk on how the sermons give inspiration to the radical Islamist cause to create a Caliphate, or greater Islamic state.

* Here’s one PhD student with his head screwed on…

Dr Gunaratna said the radical nature of Bashir’s current sermons showed that Indonesia’s legal system was still not equipped to police terrorism.

“The very fact that Abu Bakar Bashir is spreading hatred and ideological extremism is testimony to the fact that Australia has failed in engagement with Indonesia to build a robust Indonesian counter-terrorism legislation,” Dr Gunaratna said.

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Bashir’s address contained many direct challenges to Indonesian secularism. The cleric urged his supporters to reject the laws of the nation’s parliament and said following state laws that contradicted Islamic Shariah law was an act of “blasphemy”.

“Don’t be scared if you are called a hardliner Muslim,” Bashir said. “It must be like that. We can’t follow human law that is in conflict with Allah’s law.”

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