The brazen attack was posted on Twitter HERE.
The newlywed couple is believed to be linked to the group Jamaah Ansharut Daulah, which is itself linked to the Islamic State.
Westerners are largely unable to comprehend the mindset of jihadists. When Westerners think of a newlywed couple, they automatically think of life, love and promise, not of two people plotting to murder innocent people in service to what they believe to be divine commands. This is the face of jihadist religious zeal. Naivete about it enables it further.
One of the highest-profile atrocities committed by Jamaah Ansharut Daulah was a spree of bombings in the Indonesian city of Surabaya. Three families were part of the bombings, and the jihadist parents included their young children in the attacks.
“Couple who married 6 months ago identified as suicide bombers in Indonesian church attack,” RT, 30March 29, 2021:
Indonesian police have identified the suspects in Sunday’s church suicide bombing as a recently married couple with suspected jihadist ties. Families have been involved in some major terrorist attacks in the region.
The explosion occurred outside a Roman Catholic church in the city of Makassar after two people entered the churchyard on a motorbike and were prevented from entering by security guards. The blast left 20 people injured and killed the attackers. It happened shortly after a Palm Sunday Mass service was held inside the Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral.
The perpetrators were identified as a couple living in the same city who got married six months ago, National Police spokesperson Argo Yuwono revealed on Monday. Lab tests matched the male’s DNA to that of his relatives and confirmed the female’s identity via fingerprints. The police only gave the initials of the man, L, and his wife, YSF, but local media pinpointed the young couple’s residence and spoke to neighbors.
Police say the couple are believed to have had links to Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), an Indonesian jihadist group linked to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS). The group has been responsible for a number of terrorist attacks in Indonesia and elsewhere in the region.
One of their highest-profile atrocities was a series of bombings in the city of Surabaya, the capital of Indonesia’s East Java province. Three bombs targeted Catholic churches, while one was set off by accident at a perpetrator’s residence and another exploded when police stopped two members of the group for a check. Three families were behind the spree of violence and included their children – as young as seven – in the attacks, investigators reported….
gravenimage says
Indonesia: Muslim newlyweds identified as the jihad suicide bombers who attacked church on Palm Sunday
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This isn’t how normal people spend their honeymoon.
Robert Corrow says
Standby for “fear of a backlash” and “they’re extremists”.
I had a months-long twitter convo with a very smart–but, of course–delusional Indonesian Muslim woman last year. Yep, same excuses there, too.
gravenimage says
All too true, Robert.
Wellington says
I don’t consider any Muslim normal, gravenimage, though of course the degree of abnormality varies. If one is willingly a Muslim, there is something wrong with that person. I no longer treat this as an assumption but as an axiom.
gravenimage says
Grimly spot on, Wellington, given the perversity of Islamic teachings.
jim says
2 less in the gene pool…. works for me!
Walter Sieruk says
This is the result of highly religious Muslim couple who were deceived and deluded and deceived by the false doctrines of Islam. Therefore they literary became dangerous to self and others to a murderous extent.
Walter Sieruk says
This is yet more Islamic murderous wickedness and irrational behavior, this time in Indonesia
Therefore those Muslim jihadists of this article may be fittingly described in the Bible which reads Their is evil and madness in their hearts while they live ;afterwards they join the dead.”
Ecclesiastes 9:3. [N.I.V.]
Pray Hard says
Islam and moslems are so perverse, so depraved that our childish little Western Minds and emotions simply cannot begin to grasp the depth of evil they contain.
James Lincoln says
Pray Hard,
For a normal, well-adjusted person it is difficult to fully grasp what goes on in the mind of a devout muslim…
E T says
James, She gets to go to hell and her husband gets 72 virgins it is that simple. Women have deficient minds and methinks the men do too.
rp says
So true. It is even more difficult if Taqiya is being used.