More tales of poor Muslim victims, being tortured everywhere,
thus necessitating a global reaction against America, which
is attacking Indonesian Muslims with - ideas! "Ideas of Mass
Destruction", perhaps? I fail to see how G W Bush is trying 
to "rot Islam from within", when it is already rotten to the
core and Bush praises it as a "noble religion" that "worships
the same god" etc etc.

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The Sunday Times     July 30, 2006

Bali terror chief's new mission
Michael Sheridan, Jakarta
Bombers' mentor plots rise of "Allahcracy"

THE venerable preacher named as a terrorist leader by the United
States had a twinkle in his eye as he talked of his new mission to
convert Indonesia, the world's biggest Muslim nation, into what he
calls an "Allahcracy".

Abu Bakar Bashir is a free man after serving just over two years in
jail for participating in the conspiracy to bomb two nightclubs in
Bali in 2002. The suicide attacks killed 202 people, including 88
Australians, 38 Indonesians and 26 British citizens.

He was in fine form, sitting with his lawyer, Akhmad Michdan, and six
followers round a table at Jakarta airport strewn with the debris of a
copious, if sober, lunch consumed at the expense of the infidel press.

"Bali was a reaction," said Bashir, who has learnt to measure his
inflammatory words with care since our last interview at his Islamic
boarding school, three weeks before the bombings on the holiday
island.

"With regard to the bombings everywhere, these are reactions by
Muslims to defend themselves. Muslims are being tortured everywhere
from Afghanistan to the Philippines. So these reactions against
America are global."

Bashir, 68, was flying to Sumatra on the latest stage of a celebrity
preaching tour that has hardly stopped since he was released from jail
last month, to the fury of the American and Australian governments.

His followers murmured in indignant approval at the words of their
ustad, or teacher, several of them typing busily on BlackBerrys or
mobile phones as they did so. They chuckled when he joked that he had
turned down a speaking invitation from a mosque in Australia "because
I'm not 100% popular there".

"George Bush is trying to rot Islam from within," Bashir continued,
sipping a milkshake, "and America is attacking Indonesian Muslims -
with ideas. That's why I'm fighting America - but only with preaching
and ideas, of course."

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Full article at "Times Online" - UK
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2291200,00.html

Cheers, Steve..

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