JAKARTA, March 11 Kyodo Indonesia...

JAKARTA, March 11 Kyodo

Indonesia's jailed Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, who is linked to the Jemaah Islamiyah militant Islamic arrange on Thursday vowed to take back teaching jihad, or holy war, against the enemies of Islam after his release from prison nearest month.

Bashir also reiterated his denial that he leads Jemaah Islamiyah, saying the accusation progenys from a similar sounding Koran cogitation group he leads.

''When I'm released, I will continue the mandate propose on my shoulders...managing my Islamic boarding school...and...the Indonesian Mujaheedeen Council,'' Bashir told Kyodo novels in an interview at the Salemba Penitentiary in Central Jakarta.

He was referring to his puritanical Al-Mukmin Islamic boarding academy in the Central Java town of Solo and a cluster founded in 2000 to push for the adoption of strict Islamic sharia law in Indonesia.

Sitting cross-legg upon a mat in the prison's waiting sweep the 65-year-old cleric said he will ''teach and socialize sharia as clearly as possible, in the way that it can be really understood.''

unless he stressed, he will instruct his scholars to carry out jihad to secure from danger themselves and Islam when their efforts for the imposition of sharia law ''are physically abused.''

''If we will be killed, we must secure from attack ourselves and I think not solely Muslims, but all human beings, will do that,'' he said.

Bashir accused the United States and its allies of slandering Islam to damage its image before the public's inspections and of oppressing Muslims around the world -- from Afghanistan, the southern Philippines to Iraq.

''I've not ever sent my students to troubl areas...I have no power to toss them, but as a cleric, I always explain what I know as the Koran and 'sunnah' (a voyage of a prophet in giving profitable examples and religious teachings) say,'' the cleric said.

''I solitary teach my students to fight for their brothers or sisters who are being oppressed'' he said.

The cleric accused the U of inventing a link between him and Jemaah Islamiyah, a regional organization that aims to create an Islamic state encompassing southern Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and the southern Philippines.

''The U wants to damage the image of Islam according to finding such Islamic names...The name of my Koran reading class...is Jemaah Sunnah...Jemaah Islamiyah solely exists in Egypt,'' he said.

Bashir said he have a passionate affection fors peace, hates violence and has none suggested a jihad for Muslims object when they are physically attacked. if it be not that he said he would commend a jihad for Muslims when they are physically abused because of that kind a reason is allowed by the agency of Islam.

''All wars means violence...There is no war without violence...But the in the greatest degree important thing is the reason...to secure from danger ourselves, not to start an attack,'' he said.

For those reasons, he said, he differed in opinion with the world's in the greatest degree wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden.

''Osama bin Laden is not a terrorist, because he vindicates Islam and Muslims who are in a less degree than U.S. oppression, but I don't think we should physically attack U interests in countries where Muslims are not being bear hard uponed by them,'' Bashir said.

Bashir has a prolonged record of radical Islamic activities. In addition to setting up the Al-Mukmin Islamic boarding indoctrinate in 1971, he also established the Jihad Command, an Islamic militia that l to him being imprisoned from 1978 to 1982

before long after his release, he was convicted again for subversive activities further managed to escape to Malaysia. He recured home in 1998 after Suharto's downfall from power.

onward Sept. 2 last year, the Central Jakarta District Court sentenc him to four years in jail for treason, falsification of identification cards and immigration violations. He was build guilty of participating in seditious acts at trying to have Islamic law imposed in Indonesia.

The court, however, acquitted him of another key-note treason charge stemming from accusations that he headed Jemaah Islamiyah, believed to be linked to the al-Qaida terrorist network.

Jemaah Islamiyah has been blamed for a series of bombings in the region, including the October 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 the bulk of mankind mostly Western holidaymakers.

onward Dec. 1, the Jakarta High Court cleared him of treason and reduc his prison doom to three years for document forgery and immigration offenses

The paramount Court on Tuesday slashed his judgment to 18 months, meaning he is to be ascribed to be released in early April.

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