Abu Bakar Bashir Quotes

• Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Topics in God, Religion

  Tags in Believe

• 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. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.

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  Topics in Money

  Tags in Right, Leaders, Neighbours

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Scared, Problem, Leaders

• 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?

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Topics in Democracy, Power

  Tags in Islam, Ideas

• This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Better, Poor

• Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Domesticated, Today

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Proud, Things

• What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Listening, Nobody, Honour

• What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Revelation, Religions

• Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Among, Trade

• 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.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in World, Right, Thinking

Abu Bakar Bashir (31)

Birth:	17th August, 1938
Nationality:	Indonesian
Profession:	Activist, Cleric, Leader

About

Abu Bakar Bashir  is an Indonesian Muslim cleric and leader of the Indonesian Mujahedeen Council. He ran the Al-Mukmin boarding school in Ngruki, Central Java, which he co-founded with Abdullah Sungkar in 1972. He was in exile in Malaysia for 17 years during the secular New Order administration of President Suharto resulting from various activities, including urging the implementation of Sharia law.

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