{"id":1622,"date":"2002-10-02T01:05:53","date_gmt":"2002-10-02T06:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2002-10-02T01:05:53","modified_gmt":"2002-10-02T06:05:53","slug":"jamiah_islamiya_allegations_puts_indonesia_on_edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/10\/jamiah_islamiya_allegations_puts_indonesia_on_edge\/","title":{"rendered":": Jamiah Islamiya Allegations Puts Indonesia On Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altmuslim.com\/ee_images\/bashir.jpg\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\">\n<div class=\"caption\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>In the wake of the arrests of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com%2Fnews_article.jhtml%3Ftype%3Dtopnews%26StoryID%3D1487281\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">21 alleged extremists<\/a> by Singaporean authorities and the possible <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com%2Farticle.cfm%3FobjectID%3DB9200855-6822-42A7-A1ADB2FA9DAE6C53\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">designation<\/a> of their affiliated Jamiah Islamiya group as a terrorist organization by the US, the Indonesian government is on the defensive, struggling to contain the fallout among a population <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertnet.org%2Fthenews%2Fnewsdesk%2FJAK162001\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">wary of accusations<\/a> of terror complicity. Although the role of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org%2Firp%2Fworld%2Fpara%2Fji.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jamiah Islamiya<\/a> is still <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com%2Farticle.cfm%3FobjectID%3DC441715E-9FD8-4D32-8F976EC9CAD18E1E\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">being debated<\/a> by US authorities, moderate Indonesian Muslim groups are warning of a <a href=\"http:\/\/reuters.com%2Fnews_article.jhtml%3Ftype%3Dworldnews%26StoryID%3D1479664\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">potential backlash<\/a> if the complaints are made formal. The leader of the group, Abu Bakar Ba\u2019asyir (himself charged with planning attacks against US embassies) isn\u2019t waiting for that to happen and has <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com%2Fwire%2FWorld%2Fap20020924_463.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">challenged the US<\/a> to produce evidence. \u201cI am not fighting against the American people but against the U.S. government,\u201d Ba\u2019asyir said. \u201cThe government and the Jews are fighting against Muslims\u201d (Note to Abu Bakar: Your rhetoric isn\u2019t helping your image). Ba\u2019asyir, who is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Farticle.cgi%3Ff%3D%2Fnews%2Farchive%2F2002%2F09%2F24%2Finternational0451EDT0481.DTL\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">admired<\/a> by many poor Indonesian Muslims, has even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com%2Fstories%2Fsoutheastasia%2Fview%2F20519%2F1%2F.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">sued<\/a> Time Magazine for libel in a recent story about him. For its part, Indonesia and its president, Megawati Sukarnoputri, continues to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zwire.com%2Fsite%2Fnews.cfm%3FBRD%3D1078%26dept_id%3D151021%26newsid%3D5529716%26PAG%3D461%26rfi%3D9\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">arrest<\/a> Al Qaeda suspects <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Farticles%2FA20672-2002Sep29.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">independently<\/a> of the US and has pleaded with neighboring countries to put terror allegations into perspective. In the words of one analyst, she faces \u201ctwo unpalatable choices\u201d \u2013 \u201ctaking a position that will bring down some opposition in the streets and charges of being a flunky\u201d of the US. With that in mind, the government is trying to <a href=\"http:\/\/asia.cnn.com%2F2002%2FWORLD%2Fasiapcf%2Fsoutheast%2F10%2F01%2Findonesai.terror\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">continue its investigations<\/a> as quietly as possible.<\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Zahed Amanullah is associate editor of altmuslim.com.\u00a0 He is based in London, England.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US allegations of Al Qaeda links with Indonesia&#8217;s Jamiah Islamiya has that country fighting to maintain its moderate image in the face of increasing concern among its Muslim population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":531,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-briefings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>: Jamiah Islamiya Allegations Puts Indonesia On Edge<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"US allegations of Al Qaeda links with Indonesia&#039;s Jamiah Islamiya has that country fighting to maintain its moderate image in the face of increasing concern among its Muslim population.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/10\/jamiah_islamiya_allegations_puts_indonesia_on_edge\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\": Jamiah Islamiya Allegations Puts Indonesia On Edge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"US allegations of Al Qaeda links with Indonesia&#039;s Jamiah Islamiya has that country fighting to maintain its moderate image in the face of increasing concern among its Muslim population.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/10\/jamiah_islamiya_allegations_puts_indonesia_on_edge\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"altmuslim\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2002-10-02T06:05:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.altmuslim.com\/ee_images\/bashir.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"zahedamanullah\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"zahedamanullah\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/10\/jamiah_islamiya_allegations_puts_indonesia_on_edge\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/10\/jamiah_islamiya_allegations_puts_indonesia_on_edge\/\",\"name\":\": Jamiah Islamiya Allegations Puts Indonesia On Edge\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2002-10-02T06:05:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2002-10-02T06:05:53+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#\/schema\/person\/871b6e097b0060bce500f444bd5940ba\"},\"description\":\"US allegations of Al Qaeda links with Indonesia's Jamiah Islamiya has that country fighting to maintain its moderate image in the face of increasing concern among its Muslim population.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/10\/jamiah_islamiya_allegations_puts_indonesia_on_edge\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/10\/jamiah_islamiya_allegations_puts_indonesia_on_edge\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/10\/jamiah_islamiya_allegations_puts_indonesia_on_edge\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\": Jamiah Islamiya Allegations Puts Indonesia On Edge\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/\",\"name\":\"altmuslim\",\"description\":\"Global perspectives on Muslim life, politics &amp; 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