Imam Samudra

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Abdul Aziz aka Imam Samudra aka Qudama (born January 14, 1970 in Serang, Banten) is an Indonesian terrorist who was convicted for his part in the 2002 Bali bombing. On September 5, 2006 he was condemned to eight years in jail for sheltering Noordin Mohammed Top, the alleged mastermind of the plot.

[edit] Ideology

Samudra believes that the answer to every question is in the Qur'an. Old dogmas have been overruled by new insights, like Copernicus and Galileo who found out that the earth is rotating around the sun instead of the sun rotating around the earth. Eventually, scientists will supposedly prove that the Qur'an has all the answers to all questions. The Day of Judgment is nearing according to Samudra and the Jews and the Christians unconsciously know that. That is why they supposedly started new crusades against the 'true islam'. A revivalist movement of islam will start in Khorasan and conquer the world from there according to Samudra. He believes that it is good to kill as many heathens as possible. Innocent victims (read true Muslims) must be avoided in suicide attacks but they must sometimes be sacrificed.

There are striking similarities between the islamism of Samudra and ideas popular among millions of conservative American christians, including the nearness of the apocalypse or the day of judgement, the believe that science will prove the Bible or the Qur'an right and naming a place where the religion will revive, the Holy Land for extremist christians and Khorasan according to Samudra. Islamism and conservative Christianity have furthermore in common that they despise the decadence within the western civilization, primarily focused on issues related to sexuality: sexual freedom and homosexuality.