Bombing forbidden in Islam, Ba'asyir says
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Mon, 10/03/2011 5:14 PM
Firebrand Islamic cleric and terror convict Abu Bakar Ba’asyir has condemned suicide bomb attacks on places of worships, saying such acts are “forbidden in religion”.
He said that non-Muslims should be kept safe from any harm.
“Bomb attacks are an accursed act. They are sinful, except to those people proven to have attacked Muslims,” Ba’asyir said, as quoted by tempointeraktif.com.
According to Ba’asyir, no Islamic law could justify an attack that injured many innocent people.
“Bombs can’t just be detonated randomly. That is an erroneous form of worship, or just an act of emotion,” he said.
Ba’asyir, the leader of Islamic group Jemaah Anshorut Tauhid (JAT), strongly denied police allegations that the recent Surakarta church suicide bomber Pino Damayanto aka Hayat was affiliated with his organization.