Posted on 03/23/2008 12:10:13 PM PDT by george76
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.
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,"
Bashir likened non-Muslims to crawling animals. "Worms, snakes, maggots - those are animals that crawl.
"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."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
Guess I can scratch Bali off of the list of places to take a vacation at...
Wonder if Hillary’s ass kissing aide Huma will run this in her arabic rag of a magazine ?
Another candidate for Obama’s new minister.
I want to be a martyr!
Whew! Somebody isn't playing with a full deck!
Oh, by dying as martyrs they achieve “forgiveness”? I think the West should undertake to have as many as possible find “forgiveness” right away.
One cannot bring or allow poisonus snakes into one’s house without expecting to get bitten.
As history will attest, everywhere the muslim goes, they spread death and destruction.
Australia, Britian, and the United States of America will, in time learn that for themselves the hard way.
Been there and would never go back because the people are rude. Always hustling you, too.
Correction. When will they invite Obama??
Such words of tolerance from “The Religion Of Peace.” < / sarc
Really? That hasn't been my experience at all. I've found the Balinese (not the pendatangs from Java) to be extremely polite and willing to help. As far as hustling is concerned, you do have to know how to bargain and to tell them when the deal is off. This news does concern me a bit as my daughter is there this week. I think I'll give her group leader a call and a heads-up on this particular call-to-action.
What a hypocrite!!
Send the young ones off to die as martyrs so their sins can be forgiven? Why doesn’t he do us all a favor and set the example by blowing himself up first? (Like, out in the middle of an empty parking lot!)
Wake up, muslim fools!! You are dying for nothing but a one-way ticket to hell!
Hey, he’s a flip-flopper as well! Gosh darn those Demorats!
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