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Ba'asyir prohibited from visiting Bali bombers
The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Mon, 10/06/2008 3:36 PM | National
The co called leader of radical Islamist group Jemaah Islamiyah was prohibited from visiting convicted Bali bombers at Batu prison, Nusakambangan island, Monday.
Abubakar Ba'asyir arrived at the Wijayapura pier in Cilacap at 10:30 a.m., requesting permission from local guards to cross to the island to visit the Bali bombers and other terrorists at
various prison complexes.
The Bali bombers -- Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra -- are waiting execution, which the government said would be carried out after the Idul Fitri holiday.
The local guards turned down the request saying Ba'asyir did not have the necessary paper work to visit inmates on death row. Permission is needed from the local and provincial level of Law and Human Rights Department.
The rejection caused tension between the guards and Ba'asyir's disciples accompanying him that day. However, Ba'asyir said he could understood the guards' reasons.
"I accept and understand the procedure of visiting inmates on death row as implemented by the law and the human rights department," he said as quoted by Antara news agency.
At 12:30 p.m, Ba'asyir and his followers sailed to Nusakambangan island to visit other convicted terrorists. (and)
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Agus Karta (not verified) — Mon, 10/13/2008 - 12:27pm
We are LIARS if we say that we love GOD who is invisible but hate our fellow men who are visible.
David, Jakarta (not verified) — Mon, 10/13/2008 - 7:27am
Again, just like his former disciples on death row, Ba'asyir is guaranteed the oxygen of publicity whenever he seeks to hold court with the Indonesian media.
He's about the last person that should be permitted to visit the bombers. Would we want former criminal associates keeping up connections with other serving convicts? I think not.
Iain (not verified) — Sat, 10/11/2008 - 7:21pm
As an Australian, I know many of my kin will be very upset with my views... but I don't think they should be executed. I think every human life a sacred.
I don't forgive them for what they did... but we are just as bad as them if we take their life... something we never gave to them in the first place. We don't have that right.
They didn't have the right to take 202 lives... and we should be the sensible ones to set an example. Their opinions will only be justified in their minds, and in their families' hearts if we 'legally' murder them.
Like Gandhi said... an eye for an eye only makes the world blind.
Ireallydunno (not verified) — Fri, 10/10/2008 - 3:57pm
Its funny how the execution is being delayed for 2 times. First, it was due to holy month of Ramadhan then Idul Fitri, which are quite acceptable reasons. After that what's next? Has the Bali bombers lost their nerves to die for their causes as they have shouted so gloriously on national TV? or is the government fearing backlash? We'll never know.
The convicts have been insisting on execution by decapitation as said in sharia. I guess they forgot that Indonesia is secular country although Islam is a majority. This is a very lame excuse to postpone the execution and to me they're nothing less than cowards.
Jon (not verified) — Wed, 10/08/2008 - 6:27pm
Basir said that eventhough Amrosi and co did something wrong like killing woman and children, they still can't be killed for there crimes as they did for Islam which makes them 'mujahidin' or holy warriors (he speaks the true words of Islam by the way). He basically said that you can do what ever you want if it is for islam is ok.
Making religion above the law turns a country into a lawless country like most islamic countries are. As long you bend over 5 times a days and don't drink alcohol in public and hate american then you can kill woman, animals and 'kafirs' without any problems, to think about it, maybe we have it wrong, maybe islam is the way to total freedom especially if you are a man, will think about this not such a bad deal.. total freedom to do what you want.
Joe Sixpack (not verified) — Wed, 10/08/2008 - 4:37am
"If they (America & the West) want to have peace, they have to accept to be governed by Islam." - Abubakar Ba'asyir
The attitudes like his which need to be condemned.
Iain (not verified) — Tue, 10/07/2008 - 1:48am
Birds of a feather flock together.