Islamic Defenders Front
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The Islamic Defenders Front was an Indonesian hardline Islamist organization founded in 1998 by Muhammad Rizieq Shihab with backing from military and political figures. Since 2015, Ahmad Shabri Lubis
Current logo of Islamic Brotherhood Front, launched on 17 August 2021.
Undated photograph of Habib Muhammad Rizieq Shihab, founder of the Islamic Defenders Front
Rizieq Shihab
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Habib Muhammad Rizieq bin Hussein Shihab is an Indonesian Islamist cleric, the founder and leader of the Islamist group Islamic Defenders Front, which was banned by the government in December 2020. Fa
Islamic Defenders Front
…The Islamic Defenders Front (Indonesian: Front Pembela Islam; abbr. FPI) was an Indonesian hardline Islamist organization founded in 1998 by Muhammad Rizieq Shihab with backing from military and political figures. Since 2015, Ahmad Shabri Lubis has been the organization's leader, while Rizieq Shihab holds the title…
Rizieq in 2022
Father of Rizieq, Hussein Shihab (wearing black cap) with Habib Ali bin Husein al-Attas (left), Habib Ali bin Abdurrahman al-Habsyi (central), and Habib Muhammad bin Ali al-Habsyi (right), while attending the event of the Prophet's mawlid in Kwitang in 1950.
Rizieq preaching.