Abu Bakar Bashir

Abu Bakar Bashir (born 1938) is an Islamic cleric who wishes to implement sharia in Indonesia.

He is reportedly the spiritual leader of the Islamic Community Organization.

• We swear by the Quran and Sunnah, and we will not compromise with any infidel....Islam is the truth and all else is falsehood.
  • . (2007-08-23). 101 East- Inside Indonesia's Islamic schools

• Jihad should be waged in places where there is war. Bombings in places where there is no war is not a good thing.
  • Leader of Indonesian Jama'a Islamiyya Abu Bakr Al-Ba'shir: I Support Bombings in America, But Not in the Muslim World. MEMRI (October 26, 2007).