http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2005-10/06/article09.shtml
Bali Bombings Puzzle Indonesian Experts
By Dandy Koswaraputra, IOL Correspondent
JAKARTA, October 6, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) - The recent Bali bombings
continue to puzzle Indonesian experts as to who stands behind the attacks and
what agenda they serve.
They disagreed on the motives behind the bombings, which killed 14
Indonesians and five holidaymakers, from tarnishing the image of Islam,
creating unrest in the country to protesting aggressions against Muslims in
Iraq and Palestine.
"It's nothing to do with what happens in the Middle East at all," Amrozi
Mohammad Rais, the director of the Center for Middle East Study, told
IslamOnline.net Thursday, October 6.
He said the near-simultaneous blasts at three crowded restaurants on the
resort island of Bali were not linked to what happens in Iraq and Palestine.
Amrozi, instead, accused some parties, which he did not name, of seeking
to destabilize the world's most-populous Muslim nation.
"I cannot say the name but so many parties want Indonesia to be
unstable," he charged.
Brainwashed
Inspector General Ansaad Mbai, head of the anti-terror unit at Legal and
Political Affairs Ministry, agreed that the motive was destabilizing Indonesia.
"They're trying to destroy ideology first, while at the same time
introducing their ideas. They need an ailing country to make it possible.
Indonesia is a stepping stone," he told IOL.
"They chose Bali because they failed to do the terror in Jakarta as they
expected before."
Ansaad said terrorists have been ideologically brainwashed to do so,
adding his unit plans to give recommendation to the government to prevent any
potential brainwashing in boarding schools or Islamic organizations by
tightening Islamic curriculum.
Dr Syafii Anwar, the executive director of the International Center for
Islam and Pluralism (ICIP), said the attackers were copycatting Mideast styles.
He said such people believe in two concepts of jihad; offensive and
defensive adopting struggle principles of disputed countries in the Middle
East. He added that what happened in Bali was an offensive way.
"But they only brave to die but not to live," Safii told IOL.
He said those individuals who believe in that way as apart of jihad think
that outsider threat would destroy Islam and it is an obligation for all
Muslims to prevent it.
"They are against imagining enemies. Islam even prohibits killing people
and woman during war."
Safii argued that in Indonesia people understanding Islam mostly based on
text not context which, he believes, lead to misunderstanding the Noble Qur'an.
Learning Islam comprehensibly must be based on context.
"But those who are committed to terror in the name of Islam never doing
so."
Un-Islamic
Dr Bachtiar Efendi, a member of the Expert Board of Indonesian Ulemas
Council (MUI), condemned the Bali suicide bombings as a violation of Islamic
tenets.
"Islamic teaching clearly prohibits someone from committing suicide.
There is no excuse for such shameful actions," he told IOL.
Bachtiar said those who include suicidal action into Islamic teachings as
apart of jihad must also take the responsibility of the incidence.
He charged that a number of schools teachers at certain Islamic boarding
schools are preaching this.
Indonesian political analyst Dr Fahry Ali said it puzzled him that some
Muslims can do such brutality.
"I feel betrayal by those Muslims - if it's true - whoever behind the
bombing. I hope it was not some of them who teach the jihad," he told IOL,
adding that the incident has undermined Islam as a religion of peace.
"So who're the enemies actually? Are they foreign tourists, Balinese or
those Indonesians who were sitting and drinking at cafes? It's very puzzling,"
he asked.
Fahry and Bachitar underlined the need to revise the understanding of
jihad in Islamic teachings.
Image Smearing
Fauzan Anshori, of the Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia (MMI), said the
bombings were part of a scheme to smear the image of Islam.
He accused the US and its ally countries, such as Australia, of standing
behind terror attacks to discredit Islam and Muslims.
"They carry out undercover infiltrating into Islamic groups to boost
individuals to do terror here," he told IOL.
"In this regard, I would like to say - on behalf of Ustadz Abu Bakar
Bashir - that we condemn such barbaric terror," Fauzan said, referring to the
jailed Indonesian Muslim scholar.
Bashir, the MMI leader, condemned on Tuesday, October 4, the Bali
terrorist blasts for targeting "innocent and unknowing victims".
Alfin Lee, a Christian-Chinese lawmaker, stressed that the recent Bali
bombing had nothing to do with Islamic groups.
He said the tragedy in Bali was purely criminal to create instability in
the country.
"What I know about devoted-Muslims is simple living, tolerant and
humble."
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