Suspected suicide bomber called father infidel

Abdul Gafur, father of suspected suicide bomber Muchammad Syarif, said Monday his son had labeled him an infidel.

“When I gave him advice he called me infidel. I told him to pray more, but he said I gave him too much advice, as if heaven was in my hands,” Gafur said Monday, quoted by tribunnews.com.

Gafur said Syarif was known to have been very stubborn in his religious views, especially after he had joined a hardliner group in 2009.

Syarif had also said the Indonesian Criminal Code was mostly inherited from Dutch laws, which was made by “infidels”.

He said the Indonesian Criminal Code should instead be based on Islamic law, since the majority of the Indonesian people were Muslim.

Syarif was the suspected suicide bomber involved in an attack on the Cirebon Police mosque on Friday. He was killed in the explosion, which also injured around 25 people.