One Sunday, 10am at the Pesantren Darut Tauhid Islamic boarding school on Jalan Gegerkalong Girang, Bandung. The temperature was below 20 degrees Celsius. Hundreds of people crowding the premises were mesmerized listening to a sermon by Abdullah Gymnastiar, the pesantrens leader. In the middle of his sermon, he suddenly produced a letter sent by one of his followers. All eyes were transfixed on the podium.

Then Aa Gym, his popular nickname, read t