They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.
ABU BAKAR BASHIRWe swear by the Quran and Sunnah, and we will not compromise with any infidel… Islam is the truth and all else is falsehood.
More Abu Bakar Bashir Quotes
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This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.
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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.
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Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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If the West wants to have peace, then they have to accept Islamic rule.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.
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Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir’s proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
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The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.
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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.
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Islam is perfect, there is nothing to be added or changed.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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