Daily Inspiration Quote by Abu Bakar Bashir

The line tries to flip the usual post-9/11 script on its head: the “weakness” isn’t in Islam, it’s in everyone else’s timidity. Bashir’s move is rhetorical judo. He praises “millions of Muslims” not for piety or scholarship but for appetite-for-conflict: “radical,” “speak out,” “protest,” “jihad.” It’s a recruitment pitch disguised as diagnosis, using admiration as social pressure. If you hesitate, you’re not merely cautious; you’re the weak link.

The subtext is a hard-edged politics of identity. “They do not mind being radical” frames radicalism as normal, even healthy, smuggling a violent agenda under the banner of authenticity. “No fear” is doing heavy lifting too: fear is cast as the only reason someone wouldn’t join. Moral disagreement, theological complexity, and the reality that most Muslims reject militant violence are edited out. That omission isn’t accidental; it’s the point. The sentence constructs a monolithic “they” to make dissent inside Muslim communities invisible and to shame moderation as cowardice or betrayal.

Context matters because Bashir is not a detached commentator; he’s an activist associated with militant Islamism in Southeast Asia, speaking into a world of surveillance, war, and backlash where “jihad” is both a religious term and a loaded political trigger. Here, he weaponizes grievance and solidarity at once: outsiders are condemned as frightened, insiders are dared to prove they belong. The intent is escalation - emotionally, rhetorically, and potentially materially.