Abu Bakar Bashir
Abu Bakar Bashir

Islam is perfect, there is nothing to be added or changed.

Abu Bakar Bashir
Abu Bakar Bashir

Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.

Abu Bakar Bashir
Abu Bakar Bashir

If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.

Abu Bakar Bashir
Abu Bakar Bashir

The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.

Abu Bakar Bashir
Abu Bakar Bashir

The only model to follow is pure Islam.

Abu Bakar Bashir
Abu Bakar Bashir

The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.

Abu Bakar Bashir
Abu Bakar Bashir

But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.

Abu Bakar Bashir
Abu Bakar Bashir

But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.

Abu Bakar Bashir
Abu Bakar Bashir

But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.

Abu Bakar Bashir
Abu Bakar Bashir

Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.

Abu Bakar Bashir
Abu Bakar Bashir

As long as Muslims were confident they could not be defeated, but now we are just puppets.