Nasir Abas on Jamaah Islamiyah - Indonesia Matters - 0 views
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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.
Indonesia tries deradicalization - Middle East Times - 0 views
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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.
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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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"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.
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"Because you feel guilty for what you taught them in the past?" Simon asks.
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"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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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.
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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.
Nasir Abbas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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Abbas explains his philosophy of jihad, where he believes it is acceptable to fight and kill foreign forces occupying Muslim countries. He gives as examples the Soviets in Afghanistan, the Americans in Iraq and the Philippine army occupying what he describes as ancestral Muslim lands in Mindanao. To Abbas' philosophy, the killing of innocent civilians - men, women and children - is forbidden.
BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | The Bali jihadist now on a peace mission - 0 views
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"Some of them call me traitor, infidel," he said, adding that he often received threatening text messages. "I'm taking a risk, but I'm not afraid."
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"He's not a traitor. He's helping his friends. How can we convert people to Islam through violence?"
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"They are tempting people away from their faith with dollars, and trying to lead other weaker people astray. They will be judged by God."
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