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Nasir Abas on Jamaah Islamiyah - Indonesia Matters - 0 views

  • The following is the record of an interview conducted by the Center for Moderate Muslim Indonesia on Radio Republic Indonesia with Nasir Abas, a former member of the south-east Asia terrorist group, JI, Jamaah Islamiyah. The translation is from CMMI, awful, I tried to clean it up a bit.
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    The following is the record of an interview conducted by the Center for Moderate Muslim Indonesia on Radio Republic Indonesia with Nasir Abas, a former member of the south-east Asia terrorist group, JI, Jamaah Islamiyah. The translation is from CMMI, awful, I tried to clean it up a bit.
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Indonesia tries deradicalization - Middle East Times - 0 views

  • Singapore and Malaysia -- does not try to get the extremists to break with their radical, political interpretation of Islamic ideology, but rather to renounce violence, specifically suicide bombings and other mass casualty attacks on civilians.
  • O'Brien said that Nasir Abas, one of the former radicals now leading the program, "expected to be beaten and killed" when he was arrested. "They didn't (beat him). They treated him well," O'Brien said of the Indonesian police.
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    Indonesia is one of several Southeast Asian nations that are following the lead of Arab countries like Saudi Arabia and launching programs to rehabilitate jailed Islamic extremists -- known as deradicalization.
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Al Qaeda Indonesia Commander Quits Bin Laden Inside The Enemy Camp - 0 views

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    A 20 year Al qaeda commander in Indonesia turns the table on Al qaeda by fighting Al qaeda's doctrine of hate and death
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    Nasir Abas, a 20 year Indonesian Al Qaeda commander quits Al Qaeda when Bin Laden told him to kill the Jews and Americans. Abas says that killing innocence is NOT IN THE Quran.
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Narsi Abbas of Indonesia led the Al Quaeda Group in South East Asia - 1 views

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    VIEW the VIDEO of Narsi Abbas on CBS where he states he belongs to the EVIL CULT to bomb and murder.. and began to turn his thinking around when Bin Laden sent him a letter to begin killing Christians that are in South East Asia. Narsi's brother in-law BOMBED the Bali restaurant in Indonesia.
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Switching Sides: Inside The Enemy Camp, Bob Simon Talks To A Former Terrorist Commander... - 0 views

  • But then in 2000, well before his arrest, something happened which would make Abas question everything he believed in: a fatwa, a religious edict, was issued by Osama bin Laden. "It should be understood that killing Americans and Jews anywhere found are the highest act of worship and the highest form of good deeds in the eyes of Allah," Simon quotes bin Laden.
  • Abas and his fellow commanders were ordered to read the fatwa to their men and make sure they carried it out. The others obeyed, but Abas refused. It was his moment of truth. He firmly believed that jihad was to be fought only on the battlefield in defense of Islam; he had always been taught that the killing of civilians had nothing to do with holy war and that it was forbidden.
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    Nasir Abas, for 20 years was loyal to Al Qaeda as an Idonesian top Al Qaeda commander. He initiated Al Qaeda cells in the Phillipines, Indonesia, Malaysia etc.; but then in 2000, well before his arrest, something happened which would make Abas question everything he believed in: a fatwa, a religious edict, was issued by Osama bin Laden.\n\n"It should be understood that killing Americans and Jews anywhere found are the highest act of worship and the highest form of good deeds in the eyes of Allah," Simon quotes bin Laden.
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Comments on Nasir Abbas's new Jihad he pursues to save Muslims from violating the Quran - 43 views

Nasir Abbas is hunted by radical Muslims in Indonesia, Abas knows he's a marked man and in a very dangerous situation. "This is my life," he tells...

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Switching Sides: Inside The Enemy Camp, Bob Simon Talks To A Former Terrorist Commander... - 0 views

  • "So now that's why you're trying to convert them, to use a word, you're trying to covert them back to what you see as the truth path of Islam?" Simon asks.
  • "Because you feel guilty for what you taught them in the past?" Simon asks.
  • "In the past, you taught them how to use weapons, and now you're teaching them the true path of Islam?" Simon asks.
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  • "Yes, correct. Because I realize that what I did before is wrong," Abas says.
  • Abas tried to right that wrong when he took on his former teacher and the leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, Abu Bakar Bashir, who was on trial for having approved of the Bali bombings. When Abas began testifying, he was shouted down and a mob forced him from the courtroom.
  • Hunted by radical Muslims in Indonesia, Abas knows he's a marked man and in a very dangerous situation.
  • "This is my life," he tells Simon.
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    But Abas' contribution is not limited to undercover work. He is at the heart of the government's de-radicalization program, which is all about persuasion, talking to university students, combating the dogma taught in religious schools, and most important, trying to turn terrorists in the prisons.
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