Indonesian Jihad in Iraq
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
In an 11-minute video, a group of young men with their faces covered in balaclavas could be seen holding assault rifles. They stared nonchalantly into the camera. One of them was wearing a t-shirt with the words "Indonesian Army" written on the chest. The men were former Indonesian soldiers, some business people and students.
The men spoke in Indonesian, urging their fellow countrymen to join them and their jihad. "Let us fight on the path of Allah because it is our duty to do jihad on the path of Allah...especially in Sham (the Syrian region)...and because, God willing, it will be to this country that our families will do the holy migration." Another man exhorted the police and the armed forces to repent and abandon their country and its state ideology, Pancasila, calling it an idolatrous ideal.
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In an 11-minute video, a group of young men with their faces covered in balaclavas could be seen holding assault rifles. They stared nonchalantly into the camera. One of them was wearing a t-shirt with the words "Indonesian Army" written on the chest. The men were former Indonesian soldiers, some business people and students.
The men spoke in Indonesian, urging their fellow countrymen to join them and their jihad. "Let us fight on the path of Allah
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