Shariah Aceh Scowls At Day Of Love!
Wow!
What a surprise, to read in iNews.id – that the Mayor of Banda Aceh, Mr.Aminullah Usman, has ‘reminded’ citizens, ‘especially Muslims,’ in the provincial capital of Indonesia’s only shariah-governed province, which likes to be hailed as the Verandah of Mecca, NOT to celebrate Valentine’s Day.
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No fun for that bunch, at least!
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The mayor says the big day ‘challenges Islamic shariah and is not part of Acehnese culture, which is majority Muslim’ – so don’t celebrate!’
If it were just Aminullah’s personal sectarian outburst, okay, up to him.
But there’a more than a whiff of intimidation when he starts telling private businesses…
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….‘Hotels, restaurants, coffee-stalls, cafeterias and entertainment spots’ NOT to ‘facilitate Valentine activities…in any form.’ https://www.inews.id/daerah/aceh/wali-kota-aceh-imbau-warga-tak-rayakan-hari-valentine/445345
The report also reminds us that this kind of kill-joy crack-down in Aceh is no novel burden for the poor Achenese to shoulder.
Let’s not forget the Festive Season!
‘Happy New Year? Don’t You Dare!’ – Aceh’s Islamist Bigots
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- …the local non-Muslim population were told not to celebrate their holidays in ways that might ‘inconvenience’ Muslims! https://rossrightangle.wordpress.com/2013/12/16/happy-new-year-dont-you-dare-acehs-islamist-bigots/
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Vive La Resistance! Brave Muslims Defy Kill-Joy Clerics!
Shariah Goons Roam Aceh, Stomping New Year Joy
It was the current mayor’s notoriously bigoted predecessor, a ferocious fanatic woman, Illiza Saaduddin Djamal, who ruled the city from 2014 until 2017, whose diktats we used to cover a lot.
Banda Aceh Mayor Illiza Sa’aduddin Djamal ordered venues including restaurants, sport centers, Internet cafes and tourist attractions to not serve women after 11:00 p.m. unless accompanied by their husbands or other male family members…
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/06/09/mayor-orders-curfew-women-acehs-capital.html
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And that Mayor abhorred religious liberty as much as fair play for her own sex.
My own fave Illiza-ism was her comparison of a tiny group of religious dissidents to the tsunami disaster which overwhelmed Aceh 20 years ago, inflicting a six-figure death-toll.
Islamist Mayor – We Know Where You Live! Submit to Indoctrination OR ELSE!
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It always saddens me to dwell on the subject of Aceh.
So I refuse to speculate if fun-loving kids who risk enjoying themselves today will face the risk of being whipped by a cowardly masked brute before a mob of baying bigots…
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…like the girl in the picture.
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Mariyanti 14:52 on February 14, 2019 Permalink |
You are what I think is called ‘tautological’with your headline. Sharia Aceh Scowls is much the same as saying Rain Is Wet!
Scowling, preventing fun, being childishly offended, that is the essence of those people’s way of life.
I would feel sad for them but they don’t deserve compassion,in view of their cruel, stoney-hearted intolerance.
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Putri 15:46 on February 14, 2019 Permalink |
They hate fun up there.
Always the kill-joys, like you many times expose.
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Jim Ex Jakarta 16:38 on February 14, 2019 Permalink |
One of these days the people who are unlucky enough to live there will do something about the misery the fanatics dish out.
What is the real pity is that the Indonesian Government doesnt act to help its citizens living under this oppressive nonsense.
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Santi 17:12 on February 14, 2019 Permalink |
Oh yes, agree with all you say about Aceh.
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Wulan 14:12 on February 15, 2019 Permalink |
So true.
Aceh is terrible province that makes us shy to have foreign people know it is part of Indonesia.
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Prita 17:23 on February 15, 2019 Permalink |
Who wants to go to Aceh?
I rather go to Hell.
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