Hey, Oz, Be Warned! Rohingya OTW?

My readers in Oz probably don’t read the Un-Australian ABC more than they have to, given its despicable record…

Ratbags Retreat – ABC ‘Admits Mistakes!’ –

Rats On The Run! ABC Memo –

…not least when their Jakarta hack infamously promoted fake-refugee lies so eagerly that his bosses had to back off in the face of public outrage!

Even less likely are Aussie folk to study ABC’s Indonesian-language service, but today they should!

‘Mereka Mau ke Australia’: Warga Aceh Telah Selamatkan 100 Pengungsi Rohingya di Laut

https://www.abc.net.au/indonesian/2020-06-29/warga-aceh-selamatkan-ratusan-pengungsi-rohingya/12402442

Instant translation?

’They want to get to Australia!’

The background?

A boatload of Rohingya appeared off the shores of Aceh Province.

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Authorities there did not want them to get ashore, perhaps because of virus risk, but also, perhaps, aware of previous experience with Rohingya ‘boat-people….’

On Guard, Oz – Rohingya Islamist Infiltrators!

Murderous Savages – En Route to Oz?

Heading for Oz? Murderous Rohingya ‘Asylumers’ – Out in Nine Months! 

…but local villagers, out of misguided sympathy, or Islamic solidarity, brought them, unauthorised, to dry land.

Now what?

The ingrates don’t want to stay with their benefactors.

Australia is their intended target!

You can read the whole article, if it’s not on ABC’s ‘home’ site.

However, there will be many here in Indonesia not at all reluctant to facilitate the ambitious agenda, again for mixed reasons, partly because of anti-Myanmar sectarian hatred…

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…or of childish Anti-Australianism…

Jakarta Globe’s Even-Handed Oz-Bashing – Journalism? Ha-Bloody-Ha! 

….but also, sensibly, because Indonesians do not appreciate troublesome aliens!

 A Tropical Calais? Indonesian MayorWants Migrants “Removed!” 

In the past, government ministers in Jakarta have tried to say Australia ought to buckle to boat-bludgers.

Wrong, Retno – Crimmigrants’ Intended Targets Have NO Duty Of ‘Cooperation!’ 

…so I simply send this alert.

Say No, Loudly!

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Happy Valentine’s Day! But NOT In Intolerant Aceh!

Every year, killjoys come out and whine about Valentine’s Day.

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And I have recorded their multiple whinings year after year…

All Set For Unlawful Sexual Intercourse On Thursday? 

East Java Kids Face An Anti-Valentine Diktat! 

   

Jakarta SWALK Horror! Valentines “Could Lead To Kisses…!”

Anti-Valentine Raids On Java Bed-Sits? : 

Sumatra Goon-Squad ‘Monitors’ Valentine Vice! 

…but this year I’m fed up, so am sticking to just one example, from, guess where, Aceh, the Indonesian province so backward and brutal that I have never had an urge to go look at it.

To justify such a harsh comment, I offer you a handful of examples, a few of many I have covered over the years…an endless nightmare…

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‘Immoral Activities – Sitting in Coffee Shops Laughing and Talking…’ 

Islamist Inquisition in Aceh – ” Minority Religious Creed ‘Worse Than Tsunami!’ “

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Aceh’s Mad Mullah – ‘Dancing is EVIL – It Involves Body Movements!’ 

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Not Fasting – How About A Whipping? Aceh Slips Deeper Into Barbarism 

Islamist Mayor – We Know Where You Live! Submit to Indoctrination OR ELSE! 

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If you have an appetite for tales of intolerance, misery and sexism, just put Aceh into that little ‘Search’ box over to the right.

But today, here’s the star of our show…

Banda Aceh – Aceh Besar Regent Mawardi Ali issued an appeal related to the ban on Valentine’s celebrations in the Greater Aceh region. Satpol PP officers and sharia police will be deployed on February 14, 2020.

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…residents were asked to report if they knew of the celebration of Valentine’s Day. The school is also asked to supervise students so they do not celebrate the day of love.

Lovely, how this geezer isn’t going to have fun himself, so nobody else is allowed to either, not even people who do not share his religious affiliation.

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To make sure, he has those SatPol PP (civic militia) roaming the streets, and who can forget the shariah police up there…

Harassment of women is nothing new in Aceh. The WH shariah gestapo has been at this for years.

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Shariah Lunacy Intensifies in Aceh – Side-Saddle, or the Lash? 

Shariah Police Nab 35 ‘Straddlers!’ Aceh Mayor Wants Women Without Pants! 

…and Acehnese women who fall foul of that lot don’t always suffer mere humiliation!

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 Aceh’s Shariah Police ‘Stained Forever’ by Gang Rape

As I said, nightmarish!

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And even if you’re in the hospitality business, hoping to welcome any tourists ill-advised enough to visit Aceh… .

In addition, hotel and lodging sellers are advised not to provide a place for Valentine’s celebrations.

Meanwhile, the clerics were asked to convey the ban in each of their lectures.

https://news.detik.com/berita/d-4891190/bupati-mawardi-haramkan-perayaan-valentine-di-aceh-besar

…and I imagine they’re doing just that1

So There Are Benighted Jews Too?

I almost laughed out loud at the sheer asinine backwardness reported from the municipality of Bnei Brak, ‘just east of Tel Aviv,’ run by fanatically sexist Jewish fanatics.

Since I often poke fun at the benighted mentality of Islamist nutjobs here in Indonesia…

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IslamoNazi Gauleiter – “Women Already Have Limitations, Let Alone Non-Muslims!” 

…it seems only fair to alert readers to the reality of misogyny in Israel too, where the fair (?) countenances of female election candidates have been erased to avoid alarming and/or over-exciting and/or offending uptight men.

But it turns out it’s much worse than that!

…censorship is not limited to women in politics… it is not even limited to human women.

Last year, the city removed an image of Smurfette from a billboard over fears the 7-inch tall animated blue creature would ‘incite the feelings of the city’s residents…”  
https://www.rt.com/news/449345-israeli-city-erasing-women/

That must be the daftest thing I’ve read since the ghastlies up in Indonesia’s Aceh Province decided to engage in some shariah-meddling with the posters advertising an Agnes Monica concert.

Although Agnes, one of the most popular singers in the archipelago, is a Christian, somehow, by the time the poster-ads went up in the province that likes to call itself  ‘The Verandah of Mecca,’ she had acquired a headscarf!

FYI, I append a few photos of the lovely lady as she more usually appears!

I honestly don’t think a headscarf would in any way improve her appearance.

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Only In Benighted Aceh? Fun Fake-Santa Video Maker Detained!

Maybe it might not only happen in Aceh, Indonesia’s Dark Age province, where slightly built young women are publicly flogged by masked brutes for reasons the rest of the world would laugh at, were the rest of the world not shuddering…

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…but certainly it’s no surprise that it’s happened there, the latest demonstration of the po-faced kill-joy mentality we have come to expect…

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Aceh’s Mad Mullah – ‘Dancing is EVIL – It Involves Body Movements!’ 

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…after years of observing how dreary life must be in the province that likes to style itself ‘the Verandah of Mecca.

After a video of Vice Presidential candidate Ma’aruf Amin ‘wearing a Santa Claus costume‘ appeared all too briefly on the internet…

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MUI’s Deputy Chair, Ma’aruf Amin

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…the cops up there ‘moved quickly and arrested‘ the alleged culprit, a man with the initial S.

Aceh Regional Police Chief Inspector Rio S Djambak seems to be quite pleased with his force’s alacrity…

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…and he has promised that the police will continue to hunt down the video makers because they are said to have spread hate speech. 

HATE SPEECH?

Since when is a good-natured jokey video ‘hate speech!’

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Well, the answer to that is when the man ostensibly wearing the Santa suit is not only President Jokowi’s VP candidate but also a senior figure in the MUI, the ‘Indonesian Council of Scholars’ – ‘scholars’ here in Indonesia actually means ISLAMIC ‘scholars,’ by the way.

We have written a lot about the MUI…

Adam Created By Angel?” Islamist ‘Scholars’Call the Cops! 

Cops – “Islamist ‘Scholars’ Can Veto Religious Liberty” 

…and it is useful for folks overseas to read it, particularly on the wisdom of Ma’aruf Amin.

Jokowi’s VP Pick – A Champion Of Clitoral Clipping! 

So Ma’aruf Amin is probably the last person one might expect to see in Father Christmas gear, which is why anyone who saw the video would very promptly realise it was a joke…

… but as we know, humour is as rare as door-to-door carolling in Aceh.

Listen to top cop Rio, who has –

– advised the public not to try making content containing hate speech. “We don’t mess about with this problem, we don’t discredit people, spread hate speech or bring other people into disrepute. It’s a crime.”

“The police will hunt down all those involved in the hate speech video. Moreover, the victim of this video is a vice presidential candidate.”

I don’t see why Amin’s political prominence should come into it – after all, if there is hatred being spread via the internet against even the humblest Jakarta street-sweeper, that should concern an impartial police force every bit as much as some saucy jibe at a cleric running for high office…

…but perhaps somebody will ask Rio about that.

Meanwhile, he’s a top cop with a mission.

“We will arrest all of them!”

To put all this brou-ha-ha in perspective, Ma’aruf Amin amazed the nation a day or two ago by wishing his Christian fellow-citizens an unprecedented ‘Merry Christmas!’

He had hitherto been seemingly reluctant to offer this basic civility…

“The issue is debated, [so] it’s better not to say it,” he said in December 2012 as reported by tempo.co. He reiterated his stance in 2016 as reported by tribunnews.com, that “I would rather not say [‘Merry Christmas’]” if disagreements existed on the issue. .https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2018/12/25/jokowis-vp-maruf-amin-posts-rare-christmas-greeting.html

…but, hey, it’s an election year coming up!

All the Muslims I know were happy to offer me the traditional Christmas greeting, but there are a minority of sectarian uptights around, whom we have noted in the past.…

IslamoNazi Christmas Warning – Don’t You Dare Disturb Us Bigots! 

Whether poor ‘S’ uploaded or downloaded the video, I have no idea.

But all the fuss about this video is baffling.

Neither Amin’s fans or foes can be expected to believe what they see if they watch it – so what’s the big deal?

Shariah Menace In Malaysia – But Freedom Fights On!

As July ends, time for a brief look at poor Malaysia, if only because we have not examined the situation there for quite some while!

Yet another on civil liberties by Islamist bigots, the notorious PAS party’s leader tabling  proposed law changes for harsher Shariah punishments…

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Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang-  hereinafter referred to as Hadi – is eager to drag his country deeper into darkness.

And by God, it’s already mired in intolerance, as we’ve noted often before…

Malaysia – Aged Scholar Hauled to Bigot Court 

Malaysia – Call for Religious Freedom Provokes Islamist Indignation 

Malaysia Truly Arabia – Shariah Gestapo Drag Bride From Wedding! 

Malaysia, Truly Arabia? Ahmadis Forced to Seek Asylum! 

OMG! Malaysian Court Tells Christians Whom To Pray To! 

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Now there’s Hadi’s call to ‘increase the Shariah courts’ maximum sentencing limits to 30 years’ jail, RM100,000 fine and 100 strokes of the cane.’ 

Nothing wrong with tough punishments, but when you contemplate what constitutes ‘offences’ under shariah ‘law,’ you realise the magnitude of the iniquity Hadi proposes.

Holding hands with your girl-friend. Drinking a bottle of beer on a hot afternoon. Playing cards for a few cents.

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Aceh’s Mad Mullah – ‘Dancing is EVIL – It Involves Body Movements!’ 

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And don’t forget the evils of music and dance.

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Now if the ‘clerics’ decree that ‘offenders’ may not enter their houses of worship, fair enough, and even if they stoop to threatening to refuse funeral rights to deceased kin of such ‘offenders’…

Bigots Menace Pluralist Muslims – ‘No Prayers For Your Dead!’ 

…that’s as mean-spirited as it gets, but up to them.

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However, how dare they claim the right to punish ‘miscreants’ as if their sectarian dogmas have the force of law?

The report leaves open the question of whether this ghastly motion will in fact reach a vote, due to a crowded legislative time-table

But it’s a timely reminder of how Malaysia, could end up in as benighted a situation as the Indonesian Province of Aceh, just across the straits, where primitive shariah law prevails…

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However, on the bright side, there have been genuinely positive amendments proposed, not, of course, by Hadi, aiming to defend helpless kids from being coerced by an apostate parent.

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The amendment would stop a Muslim convert from unilaterally converting children from a non-Muslim marriage to Islam.

http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/shariah-bill-proposed-unilateral-conversion-ban-back-in-parliament

So the forces of good are not giving in to the shariah fanatics.

Good luck to them.

So Saudi Women CAN Look Like Women!?!

I guess we always suspected that the female population of Saudi Arabia included a lot of yummy chicks.

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It stands to reason that, beneath those repulsive shrouds they’re forced to wear, many are attractive.

But proof positive at last!

And it’s causing an uproar.

Threats to prosecute the slender young gal in the photo below, named Khulood, it seems, for wearing an ‘indecent’ mini-skirt?!?!

What Dark Age do these people live in?

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The Saudi writer Ibrahim al-Munayif told his 41,000 Twitter followers that if everyone disregarded the law in this way there would be chaos.  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/18/saudi-arabia-video-of-indecently-dressed-woman-at-heritage-site-prompts-investigation

No, daftoid, there would be a glimmer of hope that your benighted country is at last becoming civilised!

But then he makes a very interesting statement!

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“Just like we call on people to respect the laws of countries they travel to, people must also respect the laws of this country,” he wrote.

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So what is Mr. al-Munayif telling ‘migrants’ from the Middle East, Pakistan, etc. who choose to settle in civilised Western countries?

That they must repudiate the iniquitous shariah laws which treat women as second-class human beings?

That Londoners, New Yorkers, normal folks in Toronto and Paris and Sydney, should no longer have their street scenes blighted by burka-clad bints wandering along, about three or four subjugated paces behind their men?

If so, he’d be doing more than that lousy appeasement artist, Theresa May.

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Theresa May hails ‘benefits’ of Sharia as inquiry set up

But I doubt the sectarian sexists who oppress Saudi women really would encourage alien immigrants in the UK to accept civilised standards of behaviour.

Even here in Indonesia….

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Miss Indonesia contestants, 2013.

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….where many of its lovely women do behave like and look (very much!) like women, we have shariah fanatic outfits who wish to see women coerced by men.

“Fathers and Husbands, their ‘aurat’ is your responsibility!”

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I imagine that kill-joy Welya woman from the MUI, the Indonesian ‘Scholars’ Council, has not changed her dismay at seeing lovely ladies unashamed to display their God-given femininity! 

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…the Aceh model is a good example…most importantly, wearing the hijab must meet three conditions. That it’s Shariah compliant, conceals the genitals and shows no curves. 

‘Scholars’ on Scarfs – ‘Must Be Shariah-Compliant, Hide Genitals, Show No Curves!’ 

Of course she’s not actually talking about ‘genitals.’

That’s the dumbo Google Translate interpretation of ‘aurat’ – a catch-all word for ‘private parts,’ which, to the backward brigade, includes thighs, belly-buttons, hair (of course) but even shoulders!

Pathetic!

But at least here in Jakarta, there’s no shariah gestapo harassing women whose delightful appearance might provoke primitive passions.

Not yet.

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‘Immoral Activities – Sitting in Coffee Shops Laughing and Talking…’ 

I wish I could say the same for all of Indonesia’s provinces!

Get Your Tickets Soon – Jakarta Shariah Tourism Boom?

We did report on Sandiago Uno’s astounding promise prior to the Jakarta election – as a  result of which he’s now Deputy Governor – that he envisioned a sharia-inspired nightlife entertainment network in Jakarta.

But we merely noted it, in a post which covered all the issues that were alarming normal people. 

The Ugly Face of Islamist Intolerance! 

Not that Sandiago Uno himself is in any way unprepossessing. On the contrary, he comes across as very presentable and personable!

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But now this rich, American-educated ( yes, truly!) entrepreneur has shown he’s a man of his word.

Sandiaga Uno to establish sharia tourism zone in Jakarta

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2017/06/28/sandiaga-uno-to-establish-sharia-tourism-zone-in-jakarta.html

Note, no question mark! This guy is serious about his plan, for the Senen area of  the capital.

 “I think it will be interesting if there is a religious tourism zone [in the area], which is properly arranged with tents. Hence, mobility can be ensured.”

I welcome that last sentence. Mobility – the ability to get through Senen as fast as possible – would need to be an integral part of any such scheme, as many of us encounter horrendous traffic jams there.

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I sat on a  bus a month ago for nearly an hour, just waiting to get through the underpass beside the big shopping area.

But what delights would await folks who flitted in and out of Sandiago’s tents?

Many places popular with tourists who come to Jakarta feature what are invariably described as ‘sexy dancers.’

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Not just ‘dancers,’ NB, which has always made me smile, wondering if the proprietors fear that patrons would not recognise the dancers’ sexiness without being told of it!

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However, I somehow doubt that the tents would accommodate any spectacle of that sort.

Sandiago previously talked of such joys as Koranic readings, but would that really draw shariah-fans to Jakarta when they can easily find THE REAL THING…

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…by taking a short flight up to Indonesia’s most northerly province, ACEH, proudly dubbed by some of its inhabitants as the ‘Verandah of Mecca,’ the ONLY province in the archipelago where shariah is enshrined in the local legal code of law.

No tedious tents required there, because the quintessence of shariah morality is displayed in the main squares…

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….young women being beaten by cowards too ashamed to show their faces, before a salivating rabble of voyeurs and fanatics.

Nor are dancers, either sexy or otherwise, a popular phenomenon up there, where such repositories of wisdom as this kindly old gent have made plain their demerits…

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Aceh’s Mad Mullah – ‘Dancing is EVIL – It Involves Body Movements!’ 

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…to the extent that even the graceful and utterly decorous traditional Acehnese dancing has drawn disapprobation.

Muhammad Thaib, Regent of North Aceh has  banned all adult women from dancing when welcoming guests in North Aceh, adding that only children should perform the tradition.

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Thaib

 “… cultural preservation should not damage Islamic Shariah values, such as dancing performed by adult women.”. http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/north-aceh-head-bans-women-from-dancing-in-public-2/

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Nightmare stuff, yeah?

But at least we can avoid going anywhere near Aceh, and Senen.

How long normal folk can expect to find fun in Jakarta remains to be seen, however.

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Sandiago’s big boss is the Governor-elect, Anies Baswedan, seen above with the currently hard-to-get –Police Add FPI Leader Rizieq Shihab to Most Wanted List -‘grand imam’ of the white-shirt sectarian gang calling itself the FPI, self-styled ‘Defenders of Islam…’

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….and Anies may be tempted to listen to benighted FPI views such as that expressed in neighbouring Bekasi.

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There the local government’s Tourism Special Committee was told awhile back by the Chairman of FPI in Greater Bekasi that the Muslims in Bekasi reject the draft law on one point – it would legalize nightclubs.

Enjoy A Night Out? How Dare You, Say IslamoNazis! 

And here in Jakarta itself, there have been serious calls for a shut-down of nightlife at MIDNIGHT…

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‘You’re Only An Adult! It’s Past Your Bedtime!’ Jakarta Rules, OK? 

…with a senior cop having somehow decided that drug abusers are clock-watchers.

National Narcotics Agency (BNN) chief Comr. Gen. Budi Waseso has expressed his support for the Jakarta City Council in its plan to restrict the operational hours of nightclubs until 12 a.m. as stipulated in a draft bylaw on tourism.

 http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/10/17/greater-jakarta-budi-waseso-supports-nightclub-curfew.html
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It can’t happen here?

There’s a bill going through Indonesia’s parliament which could put you in the slammer for having a beer in your front yard, or even indoors…

Bigot Ban Hurts Jakarta Business – Creeping Shariah Continues! 

..and an innocent, inoffensive minority in next-door Depok is being bullied and oppressed by local government…

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“Mohon Ma’af?” Blasphemous Brutes Vandalise Depok Mosque! 

…while national government doesn’t lift a finger to intervene on behalf of religious liberty?

To paraphrase the pantomime audiences of my childhood days..

OH YES IT CAN!

Jakarta Post’s True Colours – ‘Hands off Islamists!’

Most of us understand the clear difference between Muslims and Islamists.

One of the former had a modest meal in my home last night. Another will likely drop by for a pleasant visit over the weekend. The folks I met up with in town yesterday were Muslims.

They are fasting, most of them, this Ramadhan. They don’t eat pork. Most of them don’t share my enthusiasm for beer.

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They are normal people who follow their religious customs and respect the fact that a lot of people have either different religious practices or no religious affiliation at all.

Islamists are something else entirely.

They are bigoted fanatics who are essentially intolerant and believe that their ways should dictate our ways. They hold power in Indonesia’s Aceh Province, where women of ANY creed are coerced into head-shrouding under the oppressive shariah code.

Islamist rule in Aceh is an endless nightmare…

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‘Immoral Activities – Sitting in Coffee Shops Laughing and Talking…’ 

Islamist Inquisition in Aceh – ” Minority Religious Creed ‘Worse Than Tsunami!’ “

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Not Fasting – How About A Whipping? Aceh Slips Deeper Into Barbarism 

Islamist Mayor – We Know Where You Live! Submit to Indoctrination OR ELSE! 

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The most notable Islamist spokesmen here in Jakarta are the self-styled ‘scholars’ of the MUI, and the thug gangs like the FPI…

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…whose ‘high priest’ – currently keenly sought by the police – told us that Governor Ahok deserved death for the ridiculous ‘offence’ of ‘blasphemy,’ which in Ahok’s case merely comprised quoting a Koranic verse and questioning its meaning.

Slouching Towards Shariah, Indonesia Jails Ahok! 

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The MUI are also blood-thirsty, demanding stoning and flogging, not for criminals who seriously merit such punishment, like the savage mob who murdered the three Ahmadi martyrs at Cikeusik…

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Cikeusik, Banten Province, February 6th, 2011. Watch the pigs at their bloody work on this link..   http://www.liveleak.com/view.

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Victim of Islamist Murder Mob Gets Six Months in the Slammer 

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Syamsul Maarif,  General Secretary of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) Jakarta

“If the act of adultery is by a married person, then stoning is the sentence, while if unmarried, then it’s whipping,” he said.
 http://www.suarapembaruan.com/home/mui-dukung-pelaku-kumpul-kebo-dipidanakan/32705

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That’s who Islamists are, and what they do.

BUT…says the anonymous editorial  in the Jakarta Post…

…celebrations beyond this “Pancasila Week” must avoid worsening the mistake of suppressing Islamists.

http://www.thejakartapost.com/academia/2017/05/31/editorial-a-pancasila-holiday.html

 Okay, we know that the Jakarta Post’s parent company, Gramedia, has a shameful record of collaboration with the Islamists, to the extent of overseeing a Hitlerian book-burning bonanza in support of the MUI’s vendetta against freedom of thought and expression.

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Jakarta Post – A Nelson’s Eye View Of ‘Pluralism!’ 

But so far, while editorial cowardice has prevented any condemnation of that Nazi-style arson, they have never openly endorsed it either.

Does this latest outbreak of Islamist empathy now signal that the JP is going belatedly to its support for Gramedia’s grisly intolerance?

A question all the more important as we celebrate this, Pancasila Day!

• Happy Pancasila Day – Is ‘Brotherhood’ Worth A Hundred Yard Walk?

Dancing Fountains in Jakarta? Wet T-Shirt Contests Daily?

I was all set to applaud the latest Jakarta improvement plans announced by Governor Ahok, but it seems I misconstrued the essential outline of one of the key plans that he envisages.

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Central Jakarta to have dancing fountain, wider sidewalks

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Skip the wider sidewalks – walking along Sudirman last night, the crackpot bikers were still zooming along areas clearly designed for pedestrians, as they have been doing for years…

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Not only on Sudirman, but in Kota too..

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….so without guarantees on effective policing of these new wide sidewalks, I reserve judgement!

Moreover…

Unlike my optimistic interpretation of a ‘dancing fountain’  – impressive jets of water spraying to and fro, in which dancing girls might frolic, in t-shirts and or bikinis...

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… it turns out the Guv’s version of ‘dancing fountains’ is less invigorating.

To revitalize the area, the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle (Bundaran HI) in Central Jakarta will soon encircle a dancing water fountain, which will stand within view of a park that will be built on the grounds of the former British Embassy.  http://www.thejakartapost.com/travel/2016/10/18/central-jakarta-to-have-dancing-fountain-wider-sidewalks.html

Aaah, never mind.

Whatever, the Governor’s plan will undoubtedly prettify the city. And after all, I should have remembered that puritanical streak which mars Ahok’s otherwise sensible approach to things. 

”Outrageous” Activity in Jakarta Pools? OMG – BIKINIS!

On the other hand, maybe he’ll reconsider.

A frolic fountain of the sort I’d imagined would at least have the merit of upsetting kill-joys, the fun-haters, of the sort we read about, bleating in the distant, intolerant climes of Aceh…

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…where such bizarre assertions as ‘dancing is evil’ hold sway.

Aceh’s Shariah Savagery Shames Indonesia, Again!

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Anyone who cares about Indonesia’s reputation will have shuddered anew at the news from the barbarous province infamous for its shariah iniquities.

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  The Sharia Hell of Aceh!

• Seven men and six women were publicly caned in the front yard of the Al Ikhlas Mosque…

• …Banda Aceh deputy mayor Zainal Arifin and hundreds of residents witnessed the public punishment...

• …the convicts were guilty of inappropriate acts, including khalwat (affectionate contact by an unmarried couple) and ikhtilat (intimacy or mixing) in violation of Islamic bylaws.

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2016/10/17/13-people-caned-for-indecency-in-aceh.html

Which is to say, none of these gals was probably even kissing a guy.

According to Malaysia’s Islamic Shariah laws, unmarried Muslims who meet in private can be charged with “khalwat,” or “close proximity,” which carries fines and prison sentences of several months. Campaign against Cupid targets Malaysia’s Muslims

That’s in Malaysia, but the fanatics there are little different from their fellow-fanatics in Aceh.

Maybe those poor kids weren’t even holding hands, just sitting with a boy-friend, or just a boy who happens to be a friend, all by themselves on a park bench.

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Religious police have traditionally enforced a rigid separation of the sexes in public places, arresting those that commit the crime of ikhtilat, or “mixing.” Second-Class Citizens

That’s talking about Arabs, but Aceh is in many respects more Arabian than Indonesian.

Yet let’s be fair to the savages. They are not without some tiny tincture of humanity. 

The caning of a 14^th convict was delayed due to her pregnancy and is set to be carried out after she has given birth.

Deputy mayor Zainal asserted that the punishment was meant to teach people a lesson so that they would not violate Islamic law.

May God forgive these cruel creeps, because no civilised mortal should.

I grow weary sometimes of recording the antics of the primitive authorities up there on what they delight in calling the Verandah of Mecca.

But I feel obliged to do so.

Decent Indonesians, I know, share my revulsion, not at the punishments, because a good sound thrashing would be work well done on various thug-gangs all over the archipelago, like the IslamoNazi hoodlums in my fave photo…

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.., but at the absurd ‘offences’ the fanatics use to provide slobbering bigot audiences with the Acehnese equivalent of the ‘circus’ element of the ‘bread and circuses’ policy operated by dissolute Roman emperors two thousand years ago.

And the ‘bread?’  

Well, the quite numerous gross pigs in Aceh convicted of corruption seem never to get whipped. Such welcome scenes could be televised and would probably break all records in terms of nationwide viewing figures.

And the cheers would be deafening!