Abu Bakar Bashir Quotes

• Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Oil, Worry, Leader

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• But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Country, Ideas, People

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• The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.

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  Numbers, Enemy, Islam

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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• We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Ideas, Islam, Democracy

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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• If the West wants to have peace, then they have to accept Islamic rule.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Islamic, Want, West

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• We swear by the Quran and Sunnah, and we will not compromise with any infidel... Islam is the truth and all else is falsehood.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Islam, Quran, Compromise

  YouTube Channel "Al Jazeera English"/"101 East- Inside Indonesia's Islamic schools", www.youtube.com. August 31, 2007.

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• Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.

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  God, Congratulations, Believe

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• They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Lying, Squash, Cnn

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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• Jihad should be waged in places where there is war. Bombings in places where there is no war is not a good thing.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  War, Good Things, Should

  "Leader of Indonesian Jama'a Islamiyya Abu Bakr Al-Ba'shir: I Support Bombings in America, But Not in the Muslim World". MEMRI, October 26, 2007.

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• You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.

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  Speaks Out, Mind, Weakness

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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• There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.

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  Fear, Commitment, Leader

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• The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.

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  Country, Leader, Advice

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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• Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Islam, Fixed, Stable

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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• Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.

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  Afterlife, Leader, Failing

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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• Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Law, Islam, Fixed

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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• But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Leader, Proposal, Accepting

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• So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!

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  Determination, Book, Islamic

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• If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.

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  Children, Islam, Praying

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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• Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.

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  Sheep, Media, Gdp

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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• We should be proud that our Prophet came into the world with the message of Islam to change it for the better, and not for the worse, or to keep things as they are.

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  Islam, World, Proud

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• Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Looks, World, Invasion

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• Islam is perfect, there is nothing to be added or changed.

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  Perfect, Islam, Changed

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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• The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

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  Weapons, Sophisticated, Defeated

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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• Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.

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  Hands, Law, Iron

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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• But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Eye, Media, Gdp

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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