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| 2003-08-07 | ||
| Adds detail to previous article... AN Indonesian court has found accused Bali bomber Amrozi guilty and sentenced him to death. The verdict came after seven hours of court proceedings today. Amrozi was led into the Bali court just after 9am local time (11am AEST), defiantly shouting "God is great" No, God is a term Christians use, and is an English word. He is not Christian, he shouted Allah is Great. Allahu Akhbar or some variant on that theme. I really hate media spin. six times as he shook his fist towards the benches, where his lawyers answered with similar calls. But the Bali bombing suspect, known since his arrest as the "smiling assassin", looked nervous and uncomfortable as he sat shackled before the judges. Yar wipe that smile off his dial!
Bored by it all, no doubt. Security outside the court in the Bali capital Denpasar was intense following Tuesday’s deadly hotel bombing in Jakarta, which has been blamed on the Jemaah Islamiyah group responsible for the Bali attack. About 300 armed police and 250 local guards, carrying traditional curved daggers known as kris, were posted around the court. Cars and motorbikes were banned from the area. Judges were expected to take several hours reading a summary of the evidence before delivering their verdict. Other key suspects, including two of his brothers, will also face a verdict in the coming weeks. Amrozi, 41, has expressed only satisfaction at the death of scores of western holidaymakers in what he called "dens of vices", namely Paddy’s Bar and the Sari Club in the popular tourist nightspot of Kuta. I really think death is a lenient sentence for this scum Some 20 Australian victims of the blasts or their relatives were in court to see justice done. Among them was Brad Phillips, seven of whose friends from an Australian football team died in the blasts. He himself was injured in the Sari Club bombing. They were the Coogie Dolphins: two beaches down from me. Asked about Amrozi’s possible sentence, Phillips said: "The death penalty for him will perhaps make us feel better."
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| Posted by:Anon1 |
| #9 We had an Eagle River, Alaska woman, Megan Heffernan, killed at the Bali bombing. She was teaching English in SKor when she decided to take a 4 day vacation to Bali. Amrozi needs to LIVE and to see the consequences of his actions, up close and personal. He needs to have his Koran confiscated and he needs to look inward at himself so he can see the monster that he is. None of his religious bullshit around to prop him up. No chaplins or whatever they call them over there. All this for as long as it takes. Then he can be snuffed like the scum that he is. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-8-7 2:55:58 PM |
| #8 That car-alarm like noise you heard on the south side of Chicago this morning was me, ululating. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2003-8-7 12:55:07 PM |
| #7 Too bad they couldn't take this guy and suspend him in the Pacific off the CA coast and throw a whole bunch of chum in the water. The great whites would have a nice little feast. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-8-7 12:29:27 PM |
| #6 I might add, Aris, that even in English, it can be translated still as 'Allah is great' as in English, Allah is the word for the god Muslims worship. Just like Yahweh is the word for the god of the Jews, and God is the word for the God of the Christians. I'm sure there are loads of splinter denominations that have their own variations also. And crossover names: Jehovah might be used by both Jews and Christians for example. However, neither Jews nor Christians, nor Hindus, nor Shintos, nor Animists refer to Allah. Only Muslims do. So why change the name? Only if you are trying to deflect heat from Islam... The fact that 'god' is also used as a general term to denote 'supernatural being' when refering to another religion's deity does not mean at all that these can be confused, or intermingled in a news context like in this story. They are not the same religions, and as the deity is constructed by the religion/worshippers, so they are not the same gods. It is downright misleading to say he shouted 'God is great' when in fact he shouted 'Allah is Great'. The God of the Christians is NOT the same god as the God of the Muslims or the God of the Jews or the God of any other religions. Goddit? Good! |
| Posted by: Anon1 2003-8-7 11:28:59 AM |
| #5 Aris, I'm sure you can appreciate how to describe him as shouting 'god is great' takes away all 'islamicness' from the sentence. Which is deceiving for the public as he committed his act purely and solely for the purpose of furthering the cause of Islam. If you actually bothered to read my comment I said he would have shouted a variant of 'allahu akhbar'. I would have preferred the media simply report the facts rather than worry about the Political Ramifications of them. |
| Posted by: Anon1 2003-8-7 10:56:36 AM |
| #4 Ya want raisins with that? About 72 0f 'em? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-8-7 8:31:16 AM |
| #3 I'm sure he didn't shout "Allah is Great" either, as 'is' and 'great' are also English words... |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2003-8-7 7:05:58 AM |
| #2 No word what is to happen after they snuff him is there? Like a nice pigskin lined coffin? |
| Posted by: Ben 2003-8-7 5:44:58 AM |
| #1 Well, Death certainly is too good for him. He stuck his thumbs up and grinned when that was read out. He got what he wanted. He's happy now that he gets to be a martyr. Part of me is happy he will no longer walk the earth: he has lost his right to be a member of the human race so he will be executed. But part of me feels that to give him what he wants is no good. It's no good as he will get to die quickly with a minimum of pain. He will not suffer for what he has done and after his quick death, most likely there is no heaven or hell, most likely he will just not exist. Religion only comforts the living with concepts of divine justice. I just want him to suffer for a long time - and now he will not. |
| Posted by: Anon1 2003-8-7 5:13:53 AM |