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To: JHP who wrote (3210)	12/27/2002 12:09:37 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 3467

Dec. 27, 2002 - Islamic magazine names Indonesian terror suspect its 'man of the year' By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JAKARTA, Indonesia The alleged spiritual head of the terror group blamed for the Oct. 12 Bali bombings has been named "Man of the Year" by an Indonesian Islamic magazine. Abu Bakar Bashir's "charisma" and "stand against the United States" were the main reasons why Sabili magazine honored him in its December edition, its editor Yogi Utomo said Friday. Bashir, a 64-year-old Muslim cleric who runs a religious boarding school on Java island, is currently in police detention in Jakarta over a string of church bombs in 2000 that killed 19 people. Intelligence officials in Southeast Asia allege he heads Jemaah Islamiyah, the al-Qaida linked terror group suspected in the Bali bombings that killed 192 people, mostly foreign tourists. They haven't directly linked Bashir to the Bali attacks. Bashir has denied any wrongdoing, and claims that Jemaah Islamiyah does not even exist. Sabili magazine typically features fiery articles on the alleged injustices by western governments on Muslims worldwide, on efforts to impose Islamic law in Indonesia and advice columns for young Muslims. The magazine, its title means "My Path," sells up to 85,000 copies a month and is distributed all over Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation. Editor Utomo said Bashir's campaign for the imposition of Islamic law was another reason he was honored. "So far we have not had any complaints from our readers," said Utomo of Bashir's selection. Last week, Time newsmagazine named Indonesian police Gen. I Made Mangku Pastika, who is heading the Bali bomb investigation, its Asian Newsmaker of the Year for his work in uncovering Jemaah Islamiyah's alleged role in the bombings.

To: JHP who wrote (3210)	12/27/2002 2:24:44 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Respond to of 3467

Honorable Rabbi or Self-hating Jew? abcnews.go.com "MICHEL MARTIN: Would you characterize yourself as having been an extremist ... a fanatic? RABBI HIRSCHFIELD: Now, if "extremist" means not what most Jews believe, yeah. If "fanatic" means not being able to see any other position, yes. No one was purposefully violent. It wasn't like that. There wasn't -- it wasn't that you'd sit around the table and there would be hate speech about Palestinians. It was that really you just dulled your senses to the reality of 100,000 other human beings. UpClose: A man of God who worries about the evil that can lurk in religion. Orthodox Rabbi Brad Hirschfield worries about people whose religious beliefs convince them that they are 100 percent right. He worries because he has been there. He grew up in Chicago, but went to Israel and became a settler in the West Bank town of Hebron. He was convinced he was reclaiming land that God wanted him to have. After three years he was shocked to see how easy it is to let the thirst to be right and the desire for absolutes lead to acts of massive injustice. He says he saw murder and vigilantism justified in the name of religion. Hirschfield is now committed to the proposition that being religious includes a commitment to seeing what is right in others. Ater Sept. 11 he came to the conclusion that the Muslims who hijacked those planes and the Jewish settlers in the West Bank share one thing: the desire to be 100 percent right. Rabbi Brad Hirschfield is an extraordinarily dynamic voice speaking up for tolerance from his personal experience."