Jemaah Islamiyah, which has its roots in the radical Darul Islam movement, was established by Abu Bakar Bashir, Abdullah Sungkar and Shahrul Nizam. This includes the Forum Aktivis Syariat Islam (Islam Sharia Activists Forum, or FAKSI) and Jema’ah Anshorut Tauhid (JAT), which is a splinter cell of the Jemaah Islamiyah. Considering JAD is assumed to consist of a cell system network, it should not destabilize the JAD organization too much. In Sudan as in much of African Islam, the cult of the saint is of considerable importance, although some Muslims would reject it. 5, pp. 487-89), Sura 61:9 came down probably after the Battle of Uhud, which pitted the Muslims in Medina against the Meccans in March 625. The Muslims lost around seventy holy warriors; however, despite the defeat, Muhammad realized soon afterwards that he did not lose much prestige or even materiel, so he sent an expeditionary force to pursue the Meccans. It then also proclaimed a worldwide caliphate (an Islamic state under the leadership of an Islamic steward with the title of caliph, a person considered a political-religious successor to the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a leader of the entire ummah).

In the aftermath of these attacks, Indonesia’s special counter-terrorism squad Densus 88 arrested dozens of suspected militants in East Java, including Syamsul Arif (also known as Abu Umar) who is suspected of being the leader of JAD’s East Java chapter. In fact, the father of the family, Dita Oepriarto, was named the leader of the Surabaya branch of JAD. In 2015, Tauhid Wal Jihad, JAT, and the Lamongan branch of the Front Pembela Islam (FPI) merged into one terrorist group, the Jamaah Anshar Daulah (JAD) with Aman Abdurrahman and Abu Bakar Ba’asyir as the spirituals leaders. You may find that a little rap is great when you’re in the car on a bright sunny day, or you might notice how classic rock takes you back in time when you want to sit on the porch with a cold one. Before Surabaya (and Indonesia) had time to recover, another explosion occurred, on 14 May 2018, at the entrance of Surabaya’s police headquarters. On 13 May 2018, a six-member family – with suicide bombs – struck nearly simultaneously at three churches in Surabaya (East Java) when Sunday morning services were about to start, or were ongoing. Those of you into software may know Gödel for his mathematical work.

Thirdly, it may require less courage to conduct a terrorist act when it is in cooperation with your loved ones (wife and children) than it would if the act is committed by oneself or with radical friends. After all, in terrorists’ minds they are doing a good deed and will meet their loved ones again in heaven. Secondly, children are easy “soldiers” to recruit (there is ample room for brainwashing), especially when it involves terrorists’ own children (and some of the children involved in these attacks were indeed kept away from schools). In earlier terrorist attacks in Indonesia it were usually young men who committed the crime by themselves or in small groups (but also in cases of small groups the terrorists would blow themselves up individually or separately; not together in pairs or in a group). After the fall of Suharto in 1998, they returned to Indonesia where Jemaah Islamiyah would soon start to engage in terrorist attacks. Densus 88 discovered this paramilitary training camp in the jungles of Aceh where – allegedly – attacks were being prepared against the Indonesian president, against foreigners and against other ‘infidels’. JAD, which is currently one of the most active and threatening Indonesian terrorist organizations, is not believed to be a coherent organization.

Indonesian police assumed the bomb was meant to be used in a terrorist attack, similar to the church attacks earlier that day. Firstly, planning and organizing attacks internally within the family reduces chances of being caught because the more external communication, the better chances Densus 88 has in detecting the plots. The Jemaah Islamiyah is behind some of the most vicious attacks in the last 20 years (as can be seen in the table above) and they have used one key method: the bomb attack. One was a voice from heaven; the other was the Spirit of God in the form of a dove. Instead, it seems to form an umbrella organization consisting of various cells. There were still Muslims who could not flee from Mecca and were still oppressed because of their faith. Thus I feel a joy when things go well, for I see His will in this, and an equal joy when they seem to go wrong or against our natural desire, for there again I see His will, and am satisfied that He has accepted my prayers and those of many more for some other object at the time nearer to His adorable will. This terrorist militant group, which was founded in 1999 by Jordanian Salafi jihadist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, follows a fundamentalist, Salafi jihadist doctrine of Sunni Islam, and thus promotes religious violence.