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Southeast Asia
Bashir says ‘terrorist’ US stage-managed his terror trial
2003-08-22
Indonesian Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir on Thursday emotionally denied any knowledge of the terror group he is accused of leading and said the “terrorist state of America” had stage-managed his treason trial.
I confess. I did it.
Bashir, in a fiery defence speech, also warned judges they will go to hell if they convict him and told prosecutors to repent for aiding “the infidel enemies of Islam.”
"You'll bu-u-u-u-urn for eternity! Repent! Repent, ye sinners!"
Prosecutors say Bashir heads the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) regional terror group, which is believed linked to Al Qaeda. Bashir, who wept at one point, said “hypocrite” states such as the US, Australia and Singapore had targeted him because he wants Islamic sharia law in Indonesia. “The hypocrites and the secular, if they are entrusted with government power, their programmes are to destroy Islam, arrest people who are fighting for Islamic sharia, set up stage-managed trials so that they can detain them as long as possible or kill them,” he said.
Most of us here in the U.S. sit up nights, plotting different ways of staving off shariah in Indonesia...
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#7  Now hold on there, Charles. If Indonesia wants to waste time and money and hold trials so they can show off their cute little judge wig-thingies, well then, let 'em. The images I've seen truly are, uh, er, um, incongruous. That means the same as "cute" right? Yeah that's the ticket.

Bashir's a cleric - which means pimp in its application. If only he had enuff tears to go around for those he's helped murder, he'd strike a sympatheic figure. But alas, they are only for himself, so drop the "sym", he's just plain pathetic. Kill the little prick.
Posted by: .com   2003-8-22 3:48:57 PM  

#6  Prison? Just shoot him in the head and get it over with. Stop waasting money with useless trials.
Posted by: Charles   2003-8-22 3:22:29 PM  

#5  Bashir has been weeping like a little girl, then raging against the judges. IMHO the nutbag's realized he's toast, and is losing his tenuous grip on reality. Have fun in prison lol
Posted by: Frank G   2003-8-22 10:43:45 AM  

#4  They don't make any distinctions in skin tones until the Tanzanians and Kenyans and Somalis start moving into Mecca.
Posted by: Fred   2003-8-22 8:28:16 AM  

#3  Um... how is fighting militant Islam racist? I thought Islam made no distinction in skin tone. Or maybe I am thinking of more those more moderate forms of Islam.
Posted by: Ben   2003-8-22 5:44:15 AM  

#2  We can't do that, we'll be racists then!

Oh, wait, this isn't the DNC? My bad, go ahead and crush him.
Posted by: Charles   2003-8-22 1:44:14 AM  

#1  Actually, Bashir is right. I do want to destroy his brand of Islamism.

Of course, I support 100% the right of Moderate Muslims to go about their business unmolested, I support their right to worship, I support their Mosques!

But Bashir's brand of hate-America, hate-Kaffir, hate-Moderate Muslims, fanatical Islamism? Yes, I want to crush that off the face of the earth. And Shariah as a legal, political law of the land? Yes I want that stamped out, too.
Posted by: Anon1   2003-8-22 12:59:49 AM  

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