Abu Bakar Ba’asyir: “That’s a fairy tale someone made up!”

ILLNESS does not stop him from fasting during the holy month of Ramadan. “I take my medicine after breaking the fast,” says Abu Bakar Ba’syir, founder of the Al-Mukmin Islamic boarding school in the village of Ngruki near Solo in Central Java. Equally steadfast are the responses of this 64-year-old ustad (teacher) towards charges linking him to recent bombings in Indonesia, including those stated by Faiz bin Abu Bakar Bafana, c

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