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Indonesia: Muslim cleric behind Bali bombing released,
anti-terror chief hopes he’ll give ‘soothing preachings’
JAN 9, 2021 2:00 PM
BY ROBERT SPENCER
Jihad Watch
“The head of Indonesia’s anti-terrorism agency Eddy Hartono has said the octogenarian would undergo a deradicalisation programme. ‘We’re hoping Abu Bakar Bashir after he’s free can give peaceful, soothing preachings.”
Not likely, Eddy. Deradicalization programs are an abysmal failure everywhere they have been implemented. From the Jihad Watch archives:
Former Guantanamo detainee now top al-Qaeda ideologue — “He was transferred to Saudi Arabia in 2006 where he was placed in a national rehabilitation project.”
The whole premise of “deradicalization” is that Islam is a religion of peace that jihadis misunderstand, twist, and hijack. Since that is a false premise, and warfare against unbelievers is actually taught in the Qur’an and Sunnah, “deradicalization” focuses on other issues, such as “anger issues” that the jihadi may have, his feelings of “alienation,” and the like.
But since none of that changes what the Qur’an and Sunnah say about warfare against unbelievers, it doesn’t “deradicalize” the jihadi at all. A British psychologist behind a “deradicalization” scheme has also admitted that there’s no guarantee that jihadis can ever be “cured.” And in December 2020, the UK’s “terrorism watchdog” admitted that deradicalization programs don’t work.
“Abu Bakar Ba’asyir: Radical cleric linked to Bali bombings freed,”
by Preeti Jha, BBC News,
January 8, 2021:
A radical Muslim cleric linked to the 2002 Bali bombings has been freed amid concerns over his ongoing influence on extremists.
Abu Bakar Ba’asyir was picked up by his family from a jail outside Indonesia’s capital Jakarta early on Friday.
The 82-year-old is the former head of Jemaah Islamiah, an al-Qaeda-inspired group behind the attack that killed 202 people.
Authorities say he will enter a deradicalisation programme.
People from 21 nations died in the blasts on 12 October 2002 on the popular holiday island of Bali. The two bombs had ripped through Paddy’s Irish Bar and the nearby Sari Club in the Kuta tourist district.
It remains to this day Indonesia’s deadliest terrorist attack.
The release has drawn mixed reactions in Indonesia as well as Australia, where most of the victims were from. Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison said it was “distressing” for victims’ families and that “it’s sometimes not a fair world”….
Ba’asyir is reported to have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in 2014 while in jail.
The head of Indonesia’s anti-terrorism agency Eddy Hartono has said the octogenarian would undergo a deradicalisation programme.
“We’re hoping Abu Bakar Bashir after he’s free can give peaceful, soothing preachings,” he said in a statement, according to Reuters news agency.
He should be forbidden from ever preaching again. Monsters only ever become suddenly nice after an encounter with Jesus Christ. What are the odds that will happen?
“Pakistan condemns 3 to death for blasphemy”
Yahoo News,
January 8, 2021:
A fourth accused, a college teacher, was sentenced to 10 years in jail for a “blasphemous” lecture he had delivered, court official Istifamul Haq said.
Judge Raja Jawad announced the decision on the charges filed in 2017 in the capital Islamabad, Haq said.
The accused can appeal in two higher courts to overturn their conviction, or ask for mercy from the president….
Germany: 11-year-old Muslim student who threatened to behead teacher is moved to Islamic school
JAN 11, 2021 4:00 PM
BY ROBERT SPENCER
That’ll fix everything, right? He is sure to grow up to be a loyal, productive member of secular German society now, isn’t he?
Meanwhile, note how the parents, after the pattern of Islamic supremacists everywhere in claiming victim status when accused, disclaimed all responsibility and blamed the school.
Christian Morgenstern Schule
“Muslim had threatened a teacher in Berlin with beheading,”
Translated from “Muslim hatte Lehrerin in Berlin mit Enthauptung gedroht,” Der Tagesspiegel,
January 9, 2021
In mid-November 2020, an eleven-year-old Muslim student at the Christian Morgenstern primary school in Berlin-Spandau threatened his teacher with beheading, immediately afterwards the boy was written off as sick and has not shown up at school since. He won’t either.
According to information from the Tagesspiegel, the eleven-year-old has been withdrawn from the Morgenstern school by his parents and registered at a Turkish private school in Spandau. Karina Jehniche, the director of the Morgenstern elementary school, did not respond to a request from Tagesspiegel about this.
It is now unclear whether and how the boy will receive psychological care. A psychologist from Morgenstern elementary school had dealt with the boy and the question of whether he was just parroting the sentence and from whom he had heard it, or whether he had taken up some of the thinking about Islamic violence.
The threat related to the murder of the French teacher Samuel Paty, who had been beheaded by an 18-year-old Chechen for showing caricatures of Mohammed in class.
In the Morgenstern school it was agreed that a weekly conversation would take place between the school psychologist, class teacher and the boy’s mother. If necessary, the 11-year-old should also be added. In any case, the student should have a mandatory one-on-one interview with the psychologist and a social worker at the school.
The mother no longer has any compulsory obligation to the school. The boy’s siblings were also at Morgenstern School, but left the school earlier.
In a phone call immediately after the incident, the mother explained to the headmistress that it must be the school’s fault if her son said something like that. She and her husband didn’t think this way.
The boy had been noticed a week before he was threatened with violence. One day after the threat, he wrote a handwritten apology to the teacher concerned.
It is also now unclear how the youth welfare office will continue to look after the family. Karina Jehniche, the headmistress, had reported the incident to the youth welfare office, among other things.
“The family gets every support from this office as well as from the school psychology and inclusion educational counseling and support center in Spandau,” Jehniche said after the incident.
In the Morgenstern School, the processing of the incident continues. The integration project “meet2respect”, which already works twice a year at the school, will hold a study day at the request of the teaching staff.
“We learn better how to deal with religions and how to promote mutual understanding,” says Jehniche.
I think someone should be checking into the family's social media connections. It seems obvious that they have little or no intention of integrating into western society. There must be a method of dealing with families that have no intention of integrating.
Pompeo says US will designate Houthis as terrorist group in bid
to undermine ‘Iranian interference’ in Yemen
11 Jan 2021 09:29
FILE PHOTO: A boy rides with Houthi followers on the back of a patrol truck during the funeral of Houthi fighters killed during recent battles against government forces, in Sanaa, Yemen September 22, 2020. © REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced that he intends to designate the Houthi movement as a foreign terrorist organization, while acknowledging that the move will create hurdles for delivering aid to war-torn Yemen.
In a statement released on Sunday, Pompeo said the State Department will also label three Houthi leaders, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, Abd al-Khaliq Badr al-Din al-Houthi, and Abdullah Yahya al Hakim, as “Specially Designated Global Terrorists.” The designations will take effect on January 19.
The move will give the US additional tools to confront the “terrorist activity” carried out by the Iran-backed group, Pompeo explained. He accused the Houthis of orchestrating cross-border attacks that have threatened civilian populations, infrastructure and commercial shipping in the region.
According to the secretary of state, the designations will also help create a peaceful, united Yemen that is “free from Iranian interference and at peace with its neighbors.”
Right!!!! Someone will have to explain how that works to me.
The Houthis responded to the announcement by denouncing the administration of President Donald Trump and its behavior as “terrorist.” A leader of the group, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, said that they “reserve the right to respond to any designation” issued by Washington.
Officially known as Ansar Allah, the Houthi movement began in northern Yemen in the 1990s with the aim of countering corruption and alleged American and Israeli influence in the region. The Islamic political group led protests in late 2014 that led to the eventual overthrow of the government. In March 2015, a Saudi-led coalition invaded Yemen in an attempt to push the Houthis out and reinstall the pro-Saudi president Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi.
The Saudi-led military operation against the Houthis has resulted in the “largest humanitarian crisis in the world,” according to the UN, with millions of Yemenis facing starvation.
In his announcement, Pompeo acknowledged “concerns” that designating the Houthis as terrorists would hamper humanitarian aid deliveries to the country, but the senior US diplomat said that measures would be put in place to “reduce” the impact of the new designations on the flow of desperately needed food and medicine. He explained that the US Treasury Department will provide “some licenses” allowing NGOs and aid groups to conduct transactions with the Houthis related to humanitarian activity in the country.
Despite the war’s devastating humanitarian toll, there appears to be no political solution to the conflict on the horizon. A new government composed of a coalition of Saudi-aligned and UAE-backed factions has been established in Aden. Several explosions rocked the Aden airport upon the arrival of the new cabinet, which was formally sworn in in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, on December 30. The attack killed several people, including a Red Cross worker.
The Houthis, which control the north of Yemen and the capital Sanaa, denied responsibility for the airport assault.
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