About Abu Bakar Bashir: Abu Bakar Bashir is an Indonesian Muslim cleric and leader of Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid.
Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.
Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.
We should be proud that our Prophet came into the world with the message of Islam to change it for the better, and not for the worse, or to keep things as they are.
What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?
But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.
The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own ...
But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the feudal order of his society, so they called him a radical. So what? We should be proud of that!
What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?
Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.
So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Ju...
Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.
Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.
Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable.
Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?
