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| From militancy to PhD: Brother of Bali bombers reaches academic peak | |
| 2023-03-01 | |
[BenarNews] Ali Fauzi Manzi, a former terror convict whose brothers were behind the 2002 Bali bombings, shed tears as he delivered a speech during commencement at a university in Malang last week. The repentant former bomb-maker for the al-Qaeda-affiliated Jemaah Islamiyah had just received his doctorate in Islamic education for his research subject, "Religious moderation for former terrorism convicts."
"This is the happiest day of my life," he said to loud applause in front of more than 2,000 other graduates at the University of Muhammadiyah Malang. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Just off the bastid and be done. JI ain't wringin' their hands over anything but Allan. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2023-03-01 14:48 |
| #2 I do like Benar News as a source. They have a longer memory for history and connections than most news sites. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2023-03-01 08:41 |
| #1 Interesting. "Ali spent three years in the 1990s fighting alongside the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in the southern Philippines. He returned to the southern Philippines in 2002 to lead a holy warrior camp, the same year Jemaah Islamiyah murderous Moslems carried out the bombings in Bali — the country’s worst terrorist attack." JI was for years directly funded by Osama Bin Laden's brother-in-law, an Al-Qaeda moneyman. It was very active in Indonesia until the money spigot was closed. Then JI in Indonesia metamorphosed: They became 'religious moderates.' Nevertheless, to this day the JI continues to fight on in the southern Philippines. |
| Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672 2023-03-01 07:48 |