But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
ABU BAKAR BASHIRMuslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.
More Abu Bakar Bashir Quotes
-
-
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.
ABU BAKAR BASHIR -
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 BASHIR -
What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?
ABU BAKAR BASHIR -
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.
ABU BAKAR BASHIR -
So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation.
ABU BAKAR BASHIR -
This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.
ABU BAKAR BASHIR -
We swear by the Quran and Sunnah, and we will not compromise with any infidel… Islam is the truth and all else is falsehood.
ABU BAKAR BASHIR -
Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
ABU BAKAR BASHIR -
The only model to follow is pure Islam.
ABU BAKAR BASHIR -
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.
ABU BAKAR BASHIR -
Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
ABU BAKAR BASHIR -
But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir’s proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
ABU BAKAR BASHIR -
If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.
ABU BAKAR BASHIR -
Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
ABU BAKAR BASHIR -
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.
ABU BAKAR BASHIR