Muslims just don't understand the West's spiritual reverence for the bikini.
Posted on 10/09/2005 1:53:11 PM PDT by Dundee
'Bikinis and booze caused bombings'
AUSTRALIANS had declared a moral war on Muslims in Indonesia with their drinking and skimpy clothes in Bali, the eldest brother of three of those responsible for the 2002 attacks said yesterday.
Muhammed Khozin told The Australian at his home in Tenggulun, East Java, that his community didn't care about the October 1 Bali bombings because they were not linked to people from his village.
Mr Khozin's younger brothers Amrozi and Mukhlas were sentenced to death and Ali Imron to life imprisonment for their roles in the attacks on the Sari Club and Paddy's bar, which killed 202 people, including 88 Australians.
Mr Khozin said the behaviour of Westerners in his country was to blame for the radicalism adopted by his brothers.
"Alcohol, bikinis, that kind of thing makes Muslims angry. Don't do that when visiting a country with a Muslim majority," he said. "I'm sorry, Australian culture makes war on morality. They come to Bali with bikinis, they make war on morality. Not physical war, morality war. Respect the culture and religion of Indonesia."
His son, 19-year-old university student Afif, said there would be no end to terrorism while Australians continued going to Bali and behaving without respect for Muslim culture.
He believed the first Bali bombing committed by his uncles was justified because it discouraged tourists in Bali. "If Muslims died in that action, the Muslims will go to heaven," he said.
Afif said Muslims and Christians would only live side by side when Christians learned to respect Muslim culture.
Mr Khozin runs the Al-Islaman boarding school in the village that he founded with his late father 30 years ago. Such schools, known as pesantren, are seen as a breeding ground for terrorists.
He said if Canberra wanted to stop radicalism in Indonesia, it should teach Australians to be more respectful of Islam.
Moreover, Australia could help fund facilities at Islamic schools like his, which are mainly in poor areas and are under-resourced, to help better educate Muslims in Indonesia.
"Please give to us because maybe that's the way to make the relationship with Indonesia and Australia better," he said.
He taught his students the concept of "dakwah", which means to confront people who do things that are wrong and tell them to stop.
But he did not subscribe to the view of radicals that they should act to physically erase something they did not agree with.
His brothers had a different view of Islam to his but he believed they were still good people. He called on the Indonesian Government to return them to their community, where they could be rehabilitated.
"The community have a dream. If Amrozi came back here, he will do things like that."
I will send it to my liberal acquaintances.
Thank you.
This is what Europe has waiting for it.
Bali doesn't have a muslim majority. As I said at the time of the bombing, Bali should secede and kick its muslim population, reputed to be about five percent, off the island. If muslims insist on turning Bali into a muslim paradise, Australians can always spend their money elsewhere.
..or ten or twenty! Blackbird.
Yeah, but thank god baptists aren't bombing and killing over booze and bikinis. I think most sane Christians understand the "free will" thing enough to know that the only way for human dignity to be respected is for people to be able to choose for themselves, and leave the "punishin" up to god!
Oh my, those are 5 of the most savage warmongers on the planet! They will set the Islamic world on fire. Why, just a glimpse of them will inspire the average jihadi to go blow up a restaurant in revenge.
I dunno, but I think Ann 'Colt'er might be up for some horsing around...
Hmmm..... Can one infer the bombers simply aren't gettin any ?
Forced abstinence has been known to cause a man to go a little nuts................
I suspect if we could get past the "powers that be" the book "How to make yourself attractive to women" and similar titles would sell like gangbusters overs there........
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