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| Indonesian Muslim vigilante sentenced to 3 years for ‘aiding terrorism’ |
| 2022-04-07 |
| [BenarNews] An Indonesian court sentenced a senior member of an outlawed Islamic vigilante group to three years in prison on Wednesday for having "provided assistance to the perpetrators of terrorism." The defendant, Munarman, a former front man for the defunct Islamic Defenders’ Front (FPI), ...FPI began agitating for national imposition of sharia law in 1998, then quickly attracted patronage — including funding and military training for its paramilitary arm, Laskar Pembela Islam (Islamic Defenders Paramilitary, LPI)— from Indonesia’s army and Jakarta’s police. They’re fond of vigilante actions and Antifa-style protests with violence. had failed to tell authorities that he knew about events where people pledged allegiance to the Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... |
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