ABSTRACT
Armed jihad, he insisted, was the only way to realize such a state. An organization of Muslims committed to the creation of a totally pure nation, therefore, must bring it into existence, and all those who did not share their vision, including most other Muslims, could legitimately be killed. Aziz looked wide-eyed through his thick glasses and said in a soft voice that Muslims in Singapore had jobs and decent incomes, and since the 1970s, they had lived not in their native kampung communities, but in racially integrated flats built by the government that they purchased and often improved to add value to their fortunes. Many Southeast Asian Muslims who went to Afghanistan to help out in the anti-Soviet struggle also came under Wahhabi influence and returned home ablaze with Islamist extremism that prepared them to commit acts of terror.
