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JAKARTA, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- A Muslim cleric jailed in Indonesia says Muslims should strive to impose Islamic law without fear of being labeled terrorists.
More than 3,000 Islamic militants attended a rally in Indonesia to support the jailed cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, the spiritual leader of the group blamed for last week's attack on a Jakarta hotel and the Bali bombings last year, the London Telegraph reported Monday.
In a message from his prison cell, where he is awaiting the resumption of his trial for attacks on churches and for treason, the 64-year-old Bashir said "Do not be afraid of being labeled as trying to overthrow (the government) or as terrorists when you are carrying out Islamic Sharia [law]."
Bashir's school is thought to have provided dozens of recruits for Jemaah Islamiyah, which he founded in the mid-1970s and then developed in the 1980s into a militant organization linked to Osama bin Laden.
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