Robbery in the name of Jihad

• Main Author: Muhammad Haniff Hassan
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Middle East and North Africa (MENA); Terrorism studies
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82183; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/39854
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

IN recent years, elements of Darul Islam and Jemaah Islamiyah have committed acts of robbery in Indonesia which they justified in the name of the idea of Al-Fai. Their interpretation - or rather misinterpretation of Al-Fai - is a classic example of the distortions of Islamic teachings that some jiha...