Abu Bakar Bashir

Activist

65 Quotes

But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.

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 benefit.

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.

We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?

Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.

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.

What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?

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 benefit.

Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.

Tidak ada satupun pemimpin Muslim hari ini yang memiliki keberanian dan komitmen untuk membela Islam dan Muslim, mereka semua kagum pada Amerika Serikat dan kekuatan Barat lainnya, dan berhutang budi kepada mereka.

What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?

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.

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.

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

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?

If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.

Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.

Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.

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