Jemaah Islamiah members probably don’t think of this as being as odd as it may appear to non-Muslims in the West. One of the causes that zakat, obligatory Islamic almsgiving, funds is jihad. So there is really no problem here, as far as JI is concerned. “Feared terrorist leader who is believed to have orchestrated […]
Indonesia: Muslim leader arrested, suspected of masterminding 2002 Bali jihad bombings that killed over 200 people
Aris Sumarsono, aka Zulkarnaen, is a senior member of the al-Qaeda group Jemaah Islamiah. Possible fallouts from his arrest could be a weakening of Jemaah Islamiah and/or an impetus for revenge, according to security analyst Stanislaus Riyanta. It is not known why this arrest was made now, considering that Zulkarnaen has long been known to […]
Indonesia: Muslim cleric recruits thousands for jihad group, ‘main target remains the US’
Meanwhile, in the U.S., most Americans believe that Islam is a religion of peace, and that jihadis got lucky on 9/11, but it won’t happen again. Efforts to stop jihad activity and migration of large numbers of Sharia-adherent Muslims are just “racism” and “Islamophobia.” The “experts” will soon be back in the saddle. What could […]
Indonesia: Muslim cleric issues video in which he calls for jihad as those behind him raise machetes
What? A Muslim cleric? But how could this be? How could a man who has dedicated his life to understanding Islam properly and communicating it effectively somehow get the idea that his religion calls for violence against non-Muslims? It’s blazingly obvious to non-Muslims such as Pope Francis, Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron that Islam teaches […]
Indonesia: Muslims raid village, murder four Christians, burn church and six Christian homes
Here at Jihad Watch we have posted innumerable stories like this one over the years, and never once have posted a story about Christians raiding a Muslim village, killing Muslims and burning down a mosque. That would never happen and should never happen. But it is evidence of the prevailing madness in the world today […]
50,000 Muslims in Bangladesh, 2,000 in Indonesia demonstrate against Muhammad cartoons
When have we seen crowds of comparable size protesting against the supposed “hijacking” of the peaceful religion of Islam by jihad terrorists? Right, never. In July 2016, a much smaller than anticipated crowd showed up at a Muslims Against ISIS rally in Washington, D.C. There are thousands of Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan, but only 100 […]
Indonesia: Man jailed on blasphemy charges for ripping Qur’an apart
“Last year, Indonesia’s Supreme Court rejected an appeal by an ethnic Chinese Buddhist woman who was sentenced to 18 months in jail for complaining about the volume of a mosque’s call to prayer. The case fuelled fears that Indonesia’s moderate brand of Islam was coming under threat from increasingly influential radicals.” No kidding, really? But […]
Indonesia: Central Lombok regency uses coronavirus as pretext to mandate niqab for civil servants
The regent of Central Lombok in Indonesia, Moh. Suhaili Fadhil Thohir, has imposed “a new dress code for female civil servants.” It is now mandatory that all female Muslim civil servants wear the niqab — the “Islamic face covering instead of a face mask as part of the battle against the coronavirus pandemic. He also […]
Indonesia: Women wanted by local authorities for cycling in “sexy clothes”
The alleged offence caused by these women is due to the Islamic tenets which strip women of their equal rights and objectify them, and which are strictly enforced in Sharia-adherent Aceh: (Quran 24:31) And tell the believing women to reduce of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that […]
Indonesia: Coronavirus restrictions eased so couple could be lashed in Sharia state of Aceh for premarital sex
As with so many applications of Islamic law, we see here again that Sharia is an empire of fear, with virtue enforced by draconian punishments that make people too afraid to step out of line. Behind the Islamic moral critique of the West is not genuine virtue, but people cringing in fear of getting arrested, […]