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A Jihadi's Tale 



What drives so many Muslims to find peace in a holy war?
 Andrew Marshall seeks to understand the path taken by an Indonesian cleric


      
            KEMAL JUFRI/IMAJI PRESS FOR TIME
            Long Road: Habib's spiritual journey converted him from playboy to 
cleric 
     
Habib Abdurrahman bin Ismail serves coffee in tiny cups etched with Arabic 
blessings, coffee so strongly perfumed that perhaps it liberates a memory, 
because soon Habib is talking about his Afghan war and about how a man smells 
just before he dies. "It was the strangest thing," he says, recalling a bloody 
firefight at Mahmud-e-Raqi, a town northeast of Kabul. "If a Muslim brother was 
about to be martyred, even before the bullet hit him, he would smell wonderful, 
like dupa [an Indonesian incense]. Then we knew death was close." 

"And after the bullet hit him?" 

Habib's kohl-rimmed eyes fill abruptly with tears: "The smell grew stronger." 

Today death is far away. Shaded by rambutan trees, Habib and I sit on the 
veranda of his neat, one-story house in Parung, a 90-minute drive from Jakarta. 
Habib, 42, who dresses in Middle Eastern robes and turban, with his straggly 
beard authoritatively flecked with gray, left his native Indonesia in 1986 to 
spend five years fighting with the Afghan mujahedin against Soviet forces. 
Jihad, he tells me, "is probably in my genes." 

I had sought out Habib to better understand what propelled him down the 
turbulent path to radical Islam. In many ways his is not a typical jihadi's 
tale. Fundamentalists are born into poverty, we're told, or raised in strict 
religious environments, while Habib's background was neither. Habib was raised 
as a Muslim, yes, but he was also a son, a student, a businessman, a driver of 
fast cars and a fan of Western rock before experiencing an epiphany that 
sharpened his sense of his Islamic self and set him on the road to jihad. Now a 
cleric who preaches about obeying the Koran and following the Sunna, the 
customs of the Prophet Muhammad, Habib is secure in his belief that his Islam 
is the one and true faith. But beyond that, he does not see the world in the 
stark, apocalyptic terms we've come to associate with a jihadi; he is no longer 
waging a battle to the death against infidels. Yet Habib's peripatetic life 
helps explain the visceral appeal of jihad to some Asian Muslims-at a time when 
many Muslims perceive their faith to be under threat by the U.S.-led war on 
terror, and especially with another Gulf War looming. What was it that 
persuaded Habib, like so many Asian Muslims before and after him, to fight to 
defend Islam before he could call himself a true Muslim? 

Certainly his pedigree is impeccable. Habib claims direct descent from the 
Prophet Muhammad himself by way of a Yemeni missionary who settled in Indonesia 
13 generations ago. One of Habib's 17th century ancestors raised a 9,000-strong 
army of holy warriors to avenge Dutch colonial atrocities in the Maluku 
Islands. Family history repeated itself. At the end of the 20th century, Habib 
would also become the self-styled commander of his own paramilitary force, 
called Laskar Jundullah, or Army of Allah, with hundreds of troops recruited 
and trained personally by him to fight Christians-again, in the Malukus. (It is 
unrelated to the Sulawesi-based Laskar Jundullah whose alleged co-founder Agus 
Dwikarna, a convicted terrorist, is in jail in Manila for possessing 
explosives.) 

Yet spending time with Habib can make him seem paradoxical about his faith-like 
when I tell him which Jakarta hotel I'm staying at. "That's near the Pink 
Panther Club," he remarks. "You know it?" I didn't, but he did, along with 
every other nightclub in Indonesia's notoriously hard-partying capital. That's 
how I find out that Habib Abdurrahman bin Ismail was once a big-time playboy. 
Later he produces a photo album that dramatically illustrates the before and 
the after. Its last pages show him standing with two of Indonesia's best-known 
Islamic extremists, one of whom served a 10-year jail sentence for the 1985 
bombing of the Buddhist temple of Borobudur, and was now guarded by Habib's 
troops. Its opening pages hold a photo of a much younger Habib, with long hair 
and a rakish moustache, sprawling in T shirt and jeans across the hood of a 
large, red automobile. "Mercedes-Benz, a 1971 model," explains Habib fondly. "I 
love European cars." 

What caused such a transformation? The son of a bureaucrat, Habib was studying 
business at a Jakarta university when, as he tells it, a "miracle" happened. 
But then those were miraculous times. Habib's formative student years coincided 
with the Iranian revolution and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, two hugely 
influential events that gave Muslims from Morocco to Mindanao a new sense of 
both power and victimization and signaled the birth of Islamic radicalism as we 
know it today. 

Habib starts to tell the story of his journey into radical Islam, but 
first-another jarring note-his housekeeper arrives with his smokes. "Aha!" he 
cries, relishing my obvious surprise as he slowly peels the cellophane from a 
fresh packet of Marlboros. "You can write it all down in your little notebook: 
OHabib ... smokes ... American ... cigarettes.'" 

Then the jihadi lights up and, amid richly competing aromas-Arabian coffee and 
American tobacco-starts again. 


       
      A Jihadi's Tale - page 2 


It begins after midday prayers at Al-Azhar mosque in south Jakarta, with a 
young student-long hair, blue jeans, moustache-being confronted by an 
Indonesian man some 12 years his senior seeking recruits for the war against 
the Soviets in Afghanistan. "What are you doing while your brothers are being 
slaughtered?" the man reproaches him. "Don't call yourself a Muslim until you 
do something meaningful for Islam." Habib becomes furious, thinking, "OHow dare 
he talk to me that way?' I come from a religious background!" It is the 
mid-1980s, and Habib has just met the man who will alter the course of his 
life. 

Habib's background is indeed religious, but not austerely so. His grandfather 
was a pious man who had visited many Muslim countries as the captain of a 
German-owned merchant ship, and who lived to the age of 97-just long enough to 
teach his grandson some first words of Arabic. Habib's late father made him 
recite a portion of the Koran each evening until the boy knew most of it by 
heart. When he was 10, Habib accompanied his father on the hajj. It was the 
same year a fanatic attacked the holy Kaaba, and with the atmosphere among the 
pilgrims particularly tense, Habib stuck close to his father's side. "I 
remember walking through the market, hearing him talk Arabic for the first 
time," he recalls. The rest was a blur of relatives-doting Arabs who boasted 
the same name as the Indonesian boy and the same illustrious bloodline. For the 
first time Habib became aware of his place in a larger Muslim world. 

Though born in Ambon, Habib grew up in Jakarta in relative prosperity-"not rich 
like Osama," he winks, "but still good." Good enough that his father could buy 
him a secondhand Mercedes to tool around town after he enrolled in a business 
course at a private university. He also taught himself guitar. "This is 
Indonesia!" he cries. "You're not a man if you don't play the guitar." Or if 
you didn't dance: at that time the film Grease ruled cinemas across the globe. 
"Those were the John Travolta days," says Habib. 

But his Travolta days were numbered. In 1979 the U.S.-backed Shah of Iran was 
deposed and Ayatullah Khomeini returned from exile to Tehran to proclaim an 
Islamic republic. For Muslims the world over, the Iranian revolution was an 
inspirational event that demonstrated that Islam could reinvent itself into a 
cleansing, populist force with the power to topple repressive regimes. "We all 
loved Khomeini," says Habib. "I had a big poster of him in my room. I remember 
my father telling me, OKhomeini is a very brave man for standing up to the 
Americans.' It was an amazing time. I went to the Iranian embassy in Jakarta to 
get free books about Khomeini. The people there asked me, OAre you ShiOa, 
then?' And I replied, OSure. What the heck?'" 

The euphoria didn't last. The same year ended with the Soviet invasion of 
Afghanistan. At home, Islamic opposition to Suharto's rule was growing 
increasingly violent and would peak in September 1984, when troops opened fire 
on Muslim demonstrators at Tanjung Priok in Jakarta, killing 33 people. In the 
following years Suharto's security apparatus snuffed out almost all Muslim 
agitation and sent many radicals into exile. Among them was a still obscure 
Muslim cleric called Abubakar Ba'asyir who later earned global notoriety as the 
alleged spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the regional terror outfit 
believed to be behind the Bali bombings and other atrocities. Abubakar-who, 
like Habib, is of Yemeni descent-fled in 1985 to Malaysia, which would soon 
become a breeding ground for radical Islamic groups from across the region. 

The seeds of another form of extremism were also sown in these turbulent years. 
Saudi Arabia regarded the ShiOa revolution in Iran as a direct challenge to its 
puritanical interpretation of Sunni teaching, known as Wahhabism-the same creed 
spouted by Osama bin Laden and other extremists. The Saudi government channeled 
millions of petrodollars into a campaign to prevent the spread of ShiOism 
worldwide, especially in Southeast Asia. In Indonesia, this campaign included 
distributing leaflets condemning any deviation from Wahhabi teaching, building 
mosques and paying Indonesian students to attend the hard-line Al-Jamia 
Al-Islamia University in Medina-"Wahhabi U.," as Sidney Jones of the 
International Crisis Group's Jakarta chapter calls it. It is no coincidence 
that most radical groups in Indonesia today have ideological affinities with 
Wahhabism. 


       
      A Jihadi's Tale - page 2 


It begins after midday prayers at Al-Azhar mosque in south Jakarta, with a 
young student-long hair, blue jeans, moustache-being confronted by an 
Indonesian man some 12 years his senior seeking recruits for the war against 
the Soviets in Afghanistan. "What are you doing while your brothers are being 
slaughtered?" the man reproaches him. "Don't call yourself a Muslim until you 
do something meaningful for Islam." Habib becomes furious, thinking, "OHow dare 
he talk to me that way?' I come from a religious background!" It is the 
mid-1980s, and Habib has just met the man who will alter the course of his 
life. 

Habib's background is indeed religious, but not austerely so. His grandfather 
was a pious man who had visited many Muslim countries as the captain of a 
German-owned merchant ship, and who lived to the age of 97-just long enough to 
teach his grandson some first words of Arabic. Habib's late father made him 
recite a portion of the Koran each evening until the boy knew most of it by 
heart. When he was 10, Habib accompanied his father on the hajj. It was the 
same year a fanatic attacked the holy Kaaba, and with the atmosphere among the 
pilgrims particularly tense, Habib stuck close to his father's side. "I 
remember walking through the market, hearing him talk Arabic for the first 
time," he recalls. The rest was a blur of relatives-doting Arabs who boasted 
the same name as the Indonesian boy and the same illustrious bloodline. For the 
first time Habib became aware of his place in a larger Muslim world. 

Though born in Ambon, Habib grew up in Jakarta in relative prosperity-"not rich 
like Osama," he winks, "but still good." Good enough that his father could buy 
him a secondhand Mercedes to tool around town after he enrolled in a business 
course at a private university. He also taught himself guitar. "This is 
Indonesia!" he cries. "You're not a man if you don't play the guitar." Or if 
you didn't dance: at that time the film Grease ruled cinemas across the globe. 
"Those were the John Travolta days," says Habib. 

But his Travolta days were numbered. In 1979 the U.S.-backed Shah of Iran was 
deposed and Ayatullah Khomeini returned from exile to Tehran to proclaim an 
Islamic republic. For Muslims the world over, the Iranian revolution was an 
inspirational event that demonstrated that Islam could reinvent itself into a 
cleansing, populist force with the power to topple repressive regimes. "We all 
loved Khomeini," says Habib. "I had a big poster of him in my room. I remember 
my father telling me, OKhomeini is a very brave man for standing up to the 
Americans.' It was an amazing time. I went to the Iranian embassy in Jakarta to 
get free books about Khomeini. The people there asked me, OAre you ShiOa, 
then?' And I replied, OSure. What the heck?'" 

The euphoria didn't last. The same year ended with the Soviet invasion of 
Afghanistan. At home, Islamic opposition to Suharto's rule was growing 
increasingly violent and would peak in September 1984, when troops opened fire 
on Muslim demonstrators at Tanjung Priok in Jakarta, killing 33 people. In the 
following years Suharto's security apparatus snuffed out almost all Muslim 
agitation and sent many radicals into exile. Among them was a still obscure 
Muslim cleric called Abubakar Ba'asyir who later earned global notoriety as the 
alleged spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the regional terror outfit 
believed to be behind the Bali bombings and other atrocities. Abubakar-who, 
like Habib, is of Yemeni descent-fled in 1985 to Malaysia, which would soon 
become a breeding ground for radical Islamic groups from across the region. 

The seeds of another form of extremism were also sown in these turbulent years. 
Saudi Arabia regarded the ShiOa revolution in Iran as a direct challenge to its 
puritanical interpretation of Sunni teaching, known as Wahhabism-the same creed 
spouted by Osama bin Laden and other extremists. The Saudi government channeled 
millions of petrodollars into a campaign to prevent the spread of ShiOism 
worldwide, especially in Southeast Asia. In Indonesia, this campaign included 
distributing leaflets condemning any deviation from Wahhabi teaching, building 
mosques and paying Indonesian students to attend the hard-line Al-Jamia 
Al-Islamia University in Medina-"Wahhabi U.," as Sidney Jones of the 
International Crisis Group's Jakarta chapter calls it. It is no coincidence 
that most radical groups in Indonesia today have ideological affinities with 
Wahhabism. 

A Jihadi's Tale - page 3

The young Habib is not immune to the Islamic fervor of the times, yet dares not 
participate even in the comparatively tame Islamic student group on campus. He 
has a lot to lose. "The pressure of the Suharto regime on the Islamic community 
was huge. I was just a young man who went to discos and movies. 

"I had a good life," he recalls. And while he is moved by Afghanistan's plight, 
he sneers at news that Muslims from other countries have begun to fight 
alongside their Afghan brothers. Why fight someone else's war, he wonders? 

Then comes the chance encounter at al-Azhar mosque and Habib feeling that 
somehow the spiritual foundations of his secure life have been shaken. The 
young student can't sleep, and soon returns to confront the mujahedin recruiter 
who dared challenge his Muslim credentials. Instead of debating with the 
jihadi, he finds himself unusually desperate to prove his faith to this 
unsettling newcomer whose Afghan experience, in the eyes of the younger man, 
lend him a Sufi-like power and mysticism. As it dawns on Habib that pedigree 
alone does not make him a good Muslim, he finds himself considering an idea he 
had previously dismissed as "stupid": fighting in Afghanistan. But is this his 
true path? First, he prays for a sign. That night, his globe-trotting 
grandfather appears to him in a dream and says, "You have my blessing." Habib 
rushes to the mosque the next morning to tell the mujahedin recruiter. Both men 
burst into tears and then embrace. And that's it: the inner conflict resolved 
in a transforming moment, when Habib decides to park his red Mercedes and walk 
the path of a born-again Muslim. He leaves for Afghanistan the day after his 
exams, telling his tearful parents, "My fate now belongs to God." 

For Habib and uncounted hundreds of Southeast Asians, Afghanistan is the 
ultimate culture shock: an alien landscape of forbidding mountains, plunging 
ravines and valley floors stretching off into shimmering dust; a country so 
cold in winter that snow falls waist-deep, and so hot in summer that you don't 
perspire because the sweat evaporates as it leaves your pores. The food is bad 
and sickness inevitable. Yet Habib finds such hardships inspirational: jihad 
was never going to be a night out at the Pink Panther Club. "From beginning to 
end," he now enthuses, a distant look in his eyes, "it gripped my heart." 

The year is 1986, and 25-year-old Habib is en route to war. He has joined the 
Peshawar-based mujahedin faction Jamiat-i-Islami. Here he is lectured on jihad 
and taught how to use the AK-47 he bought upon arrival. "It was with me day and 
night, like a wife," he recalls. To the west of the city lies the Khyber Pass. 
Beyond, the front awaits. 

Anyone reporting the war in the 1980s encounters Muslims from across the globe: 
Bangladeshis, Lebanese, Chinese Uighurs, Sudanese, Saudi Arabians and even the 
occasional Thai or Malaysian. But Indonesians are seldom met, and rarely 
spotted on the front line. "We Indonesians were small and physically weak," 
says Habib. "All we had was our courage. So very few of us went in the front 
line. We were cooks or medical staff, or else we carried ammunition." 

During his first bitter Afghan winter, a Soviet missile tears into a 
Kandahar-bound truck, part of a convoy carrying mujahedin medicine and food 
supplies. Fifteen mujahedin are blown apart. This is the young Habib's first 
taste of real battle, and he feels fear and revulsion-and also a new type of 
sadness not only at the martyrdom of 15 fellow fighters but because he himself 
has not been martyred. Later he will have the chance to fight-and to kill. "I'm 
not proud of doing that," he now says, "but I'm proud that I did my duty." 
Despite having Allah on their side, not all of Habib's fellow jihadis are 
brave. Some are courageous. But he notices that others, when they are ordered 
to stand up and shoot, piss themselves with fear. "We didn't win because of one 
or two men," he insists today. "We won because of Allah." In Afghanistan, 
Habib, born and bred a Muslim, realizes the true dimensions of that faith. 
Jihad, a holy war fought and won by righteous Muslims against godless Soviets, 
is a purifying ritual, and he believes he learns of both the brutality of man 
and the sweetness of Allah. No experience will ever come close. "Experts still 
wonder how the mujahedin beat the Soviets," Habib marvels. "It was because the 
Soviets fought for rubles, and we fought for what we believed." 

How many Indonesians actually served in Afghanistan? Untold thousands, some 
radicals will reply. "A couple of hundred?" ventures Habib, an estimate 
supported by several experts. This makes him very rare indeed in a nation of 
180 million Muslims. Habib is exceptional for another reason: he is actually 
willing to talk. Since the Bali blasts in October, Indonesian radicals who had 
once bragged about their mujahedin experience now refuse to speak of it or deny 
they've ever been in Afghanistan. Who can blame them? An arrested Bali attack 
suspect, Imam Samudra, supposedly honed his bombmaking skills in the country; 
another, Ali Ghufron, confessed to meeting bin Laden while fighting there. 
Riduan Isamuddin, a.k.a. Hambali, who as head of JI's Malaysia-Singapore 
chapter is wanted for terror attacks across the region, is also a mujahedin 
veteran. 

The last time I see Habib he is leading the evening prayers at the small mosque 
in a corner of his walled family compound. His amplified voice booms through 
the humid night air, hypnotically repeating God's name until he is almost 
hoarse with emotion. When the prayers are over, the congregation disperses and 
a contented-looking Habib emerges in flowing white robes, clutching prayer 
beads and walking with the aid of a carved wooden stick. 

We return to the veranda, where a simple meal of rice, chicken and fiery sambal 
is laid on mats before us. Habib removes his turban to reveal damp, thinning 
hair. He seems tired. As we eat he talks about corruption and poverty in 
Indonesia, and by the time the Arabian coffee arrives his previous air of 
religious contentment has evaporated. I belatedly comprehend that though Habib 
has realized his vocation, he is not at peace with himself but intensely 
disillusioned with the world beyond the walls of his bucolic Parung retreat. 
And that disillusionment began in 1991, the year he left Afghanistan. 

Empowered by victory over the once mighty Soviets, many foreign jihadis 
returned home with dreams of toppling their own repressive governments and, 
funded by deep-pocketed Saudis, created their own militant groups. Habib 
harbored no such dreams. Fearful of Suharto's pervasive spy network, he spoke 
of Afghanistan to no one but his parents. It was as if he had never gone. But 
he watched with increasing dismay as Afghanistan descended again into 
warlordism and chaos. "We got rid of the Soviets but afterward there was no 
peace," he mourns. "The Afghans began fighting each other. I couldn't 
understand it. I asked myself, 'Is this the true Muslim way?'" 

After five ascetic years in Afghanistan, Habib apparently had little problem 
fitting back into Indonesian society-and no qualms about capitalizing on its 
then booming economy. But war had killed his inner playboy. He married, became 
a father and started a successful business making bags for hajj pilgrims and 
golfers, then embarked upon what he depicts as a natural transformation from 
businessman to cleric. Dakwah, or proselytizing, had been a familial obligation 
since his grandfather's day, and Habib began touring mosques and prayer halls 
across Indonesia's main island of Java, preaching about how to lead a truly 
Islamic life. 

His disenchantment survived the long-awaited collapse of the Suharto regime in 
1998. The following years saw a resurgence in Islamic militancy, fomented in 
part by the return from exile of radicals such as Abubakar Ba'asyir, while 
violence between Muslims and Christians provided Habib with what seemed like an 
opportunity to wage another righteous war. Fellow mujahedin veteran Jafar Umar 
Thalib, the leader of the now supposedly disbanded paramilitary group Laskar 
Jihad, sent thousands of his warriors to exact revenge on Christians for the 
December 1999 bloodletting at Tobelo in north Maluku, when at least 500 Muslims 
were killed and another 10,000 forced to flee. Inspired (and perhaps envious), 
Habib assembled Laskar Jundullah, using stirring tales of his Afghan experience 
to recruit young men eager to prove their faith-just as his nameless mentor had 
done all those years before. Both groups escalated a conflict that would kill 
more than 5,000 people and create 500,000 refugees, but Habib makes no excuses. 
"If your mother or father are going to be killed," he asks, meaning fellow 
Muslims, "do you sit and do nothing?" Habib is reluctant to elaborate on Laskar 
Jundullah's bloody record in the Malukus. He admits he fought and killed there, 
yet prefers to credit himself-the honorable jihadi-with enforcing Islamic rules 
of war in a conflict waged with appalling viciousness by Muslims and Christians 
alike. He recalls one episode, when his men urged him to kill an old Christian 
woman fleeing a torched village where her entire family had just been burned to 
death. Habib let her go. "They asked me, OWhy didn't you kill her?' I told 
them, OWe are only at war with the men with guns,'" he explains proudly. To me, 
it spoke volumes about the conflict's brutality-and Laskar Jundullah's murky 
role in it-that Habib apparently expected praise for not murdering an old lady. 
The attempt by mujahedin veterans like Habib and Jafar to wage a jihad in the 
Malukus was not just bloody and inconclusive. For Habib, I sensed, it also 
somehow cheapened the memory of the war he had fought as a younger man. When I 
urge him to compare the Malukus with earlier times, he grows defensive. "It was 
not like Afghanistan," he says sadly. 

I had once met Jafar Umar Thalib-like Habib, of Yemeni descent-and listened to 
two hours of his kill-a-Yankee, win-a-Honda-dream brand of populist militancy. 
He taught me nothing about Islam but a lot about hate. Habib was very 
different. He was not hate-filled, I realized, but angry. He was angry at what 
he viewed as the continuing inability of the world (he meant America) to 
distinguish between a Muslim and a terrorist. He was angry that jihad-a word 
which for him meant camaraderie, sacrifice, righteousness-had become, because 
of 9/11 and the Bali attack, synonymous with criminality. "I went to 
Afghanistan to defend religion and to help my Muslim brothers," he says. "But I 
also strongly condemn the Bali bombings. What will you call me?" He shoots me a 
challenging look. "Am I a fundamentalist? Yes. Am I a radical? I'm not sure 
what that means. Am I a terrorist? Absolutely not." 

That makes it sound so simple. But no fundamentalist I'd ever met chain-smokes 
Marlboros or interrupts his own exegesis on Koranic rules of engagement to ask 
suddenly, "You like the Rolling Stones?" Because of the multifaceted life he 
has led, Habib is nearly impossible to categorize (and, after many hours in his 
company, equally impossible to dislike). He condemns the Bali bombings, sure, 
yet believes they were part of a "black campaign" by the U.S. to besmirch 
Indonesian Muslims and secure the archipelago as a future American military 
base. He is no fan of either Saddam Hussein or the Taliban ("They are not the 
face of Islam but the face of arrogance"), yet still regards bin Laden as a 
"Muslim Che Guevara" whose complicity in the 9/11 attacks remains unproved. He 
is proud that most Indonesians reject the hard-line Wahhabi creed in favor of a 
more tolerant form of Islam, yet believes the imposition of ShariOa 
law-particularly its more gruesome punishments such as hand chopping-is the 
only solution to Indonesia's lawlessness. He is convinced that Abubakar 
Ba'asyir is "a good man" wrongly accused, and that JI is yet another U.S. 
fabrication. 

It is perhaps to avoid such contradictions that Habib doesn't leave his 
compound very often these days, not even to see his wife and son who live just 
an hour or so away by car. Only here can he persuade himself that Islam is 
still the rhythm of life, not its deafening drumbeat or a rallying cry for 
ambitious politicians or the urban dispossessed or opponents to the evils of 
modernization and Westernization. Only here, with his gardens watered by 
running streams, can Habib wage his own private jihad in some kind of peace. 
"What is the real meaning of jihad?" he asks. "It is a holy path to Allah's 
blessing." A bat swoops low through the veranda, plucking an insect from the 
striplight. "The war with yourself," he reflects. "That is the hardest." For 
Habib Abdurrahman bin Ismail, jihad will never end. 

-With reporting by Zamira Loebis/Parung 








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