Jakarta Post Equates Islam With Islamist Fanaticism!

A prominent headline in the Jakarta Post this week briefly gladdened my heart…

Apology from Jakarta Post

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But only briefly.

I had hoped their Editor, Endy, had finally decided to say sorry for the JP’s failure to condemn the Hitlerian book-burning committed a couple of years ago by his newspaper’s parent company, Gramedia, at the behest of Islamist fanatics.

Grovelling Gramedia’s Book–Burning Bonanza – Appeasing Fanatics 

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But no, it was just that the JP was apologising for its sloppy reporting 0f the recent executions.Apology from Jakarta Post .

Now I wake up this sunny Saturday and wonder if we’ll see another apology soon for THIS indefensible headline.

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More celebrities, rock stars turn to Islam

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This alarming news had me worried.

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• Was Mick Jagger about to undertake a pilgrimage to Mecca – I’d much prefer him to bring the Stones to Jakarta so I could enjoy their brilliant music once again.

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Was, perhaps, k d lang, the Canadian lesbian, about to cover her glorious beauty (!) with a burka?

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Not so!

In fact the JP report is not, as far as I can see, about apostasy at all.

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None of the celeb singers etc. mentioned ( I may be wrong but am open to correction) are Christian or Hindu or Buddhist. It seems that the people concerned are by no means ‘converts.’

On the contrary.

Up till recently, they have, apparently, been like the Indonesian Muslims I mingle with every day, nice, normal people who say their prayers but don’t shove their religion down other folks’ throats.

What the JP means by ‘turning to Islam’ is that they have endorsed the most extreme and fanatical outlooks, most notably (for stars of the music industry) 

Kang Ucay, the former lead singer of Bandung-based pop-punk band Rockcalled et Rockers, who now goes by the name of Noor Al Kautsar, serves as the coordinator for the Bandung chapter of Indonesia Tanpa JIL (Indonesia Without JIL). Indonesia Tanpa JIL is a conservative Islamist movement opposed to the liberal Islam, promoted in Indonesia by Jaringan Islam Liberal (Liberal Islam Network)  http://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2016/05/27/more-celebrities-rock-stars-turn-to-islam.html

For ‘conservative,’ please read radical. Conservatism means attachment to traditional values, which in Indonesia are distinguished by an easy-going tolerance among creeds.

In fact, there’s much misuse of the term Islamisation here, when what’s meant is Arabisation. Though to be fair to Arabs, many of them enjoy music, unlike another gaggle of celebs cited by the JP, viz.

Some other musicians who have decided to lay down their instruments recently set up a movement and identified themselves as Al Ghuroba, or The Strangers. These former musicians’ primary campaign theme is the prohibition of music.

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Of course, we have often covered kill-joy nonsense, most often from Aceh, the only Indonesian province with sharia law…

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

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

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…but also from other parts of the archipelago…

Islamist Kill-Joys, Buoyed by Gaga Ban, Now Turn On Indonesian Stars 

However, outwith the ranks of frothing fanatics like that mullah, Indonesians, Muslim or not, DELIGHT in music, especially dangdut, this country’s most beloved genre.

I append one example of the many popular practitioners. She’s named Cynthiara Alona. And she’s Aceh-born!

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She’s a great dangdut singer – since foreign readers know little or nothing of that music, I’ve searched around and got you a link to one of her performances.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsHfGZPh624

Dangdut tv shows command audiences of millions, and, in a 90% Muslim country, most of them are likely to be Muslims.

The Jakarta Post headline is surely a slur on all those who adore their music and see no inconsistency with adherence to their faith.

Why should a handful of fanaticised ‘celebrities’ opting for outlandish extremes be said to be ‘turning to Islam?’

The JP should issue another of its rare apologies!

I’m of course NOT Muslim – as regular readers will have long since guessed! – but my final quote comes from a prominent Muslim who ought to know what he’s talking about.

Syafiq Hasyim of the State Islamic University (UIN) Syarief Hidayatullah said that celebrities’ newfound piety, especially those who chose to become preachers, may be motivated by pragmatism.      

“There are two types of piety, exclusive and inclusive and the latter is always better. But I suspect that for some of those preachers, they have financial motivations,” Syafiq said.    

 

Anti-Social Media – Harmless Student ‘Guilty,’ But Islamist Bigot Sites Re-Open!

So the majesty of the law unfolds before our eyes, and Florence, the young student who dared use ‘social media’ to criticise the City of Jogja, gets jail-time – suspended, apparently…   http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/04/01/facebook-path-users-sentenced.html

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• Florence Faces Fine or Jail-Time – Who Needs Holidays in Uptight Jogja! 

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• –…but that’s hardly the point. What about anti-social media?

Because the Indonesian Government’s move to shut-down fanatic Islamist sites that spew out jihadist poison has been U-turned

Jakarta – Fanatics Fume at Shut-Down of Sectarian Websites! 

…after an ‘outcry!’- http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/04/01/govt-unblocks-radical-websites.htm

Funny, that.

You’d think you might hear an ‘outcry‘ if you were out on the streets of the capital, as I have been, often, in recent days, but nary a word. You’d think you might see tense faces, twitching with indignation – nope!

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Well, not counting the crowd at Grogol Halte Busway, waiting for a bus to Lebak Bulus, half an hour or near enough, whilst in that space of time, about seven buses to Kalideres came by, plus two empty vehicles which declined to stop and pick up the disgusted would-be passengers.  

Of course the IslamoNazi FPI was outraged, at the abortive ban. Their shrilling must be the bane of their neighbours’ lives, which ever part of town they live in. Amazingly, the FPI site was not on the list of those to be dealt with. 

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•  FPI Freedom March – ‘Kill Buddhists!’
  

  Eva MP Slams IslamoNazi ‘Kill Buddhists’ Call! 

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• But as in the West, it’s not just the cacaphonous sectarian hate-mongers who let rip when governments take concrete action against jihadist jerks.

It’s the entire left-lib establishment!

Needless to say, the Jakarta Globe editorial collective is in the forefront, though they say they want a panel to monitor such action, with ‘moderate’ Muslims on it.

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That will presumably exclude anyone connected with the state-sponsored ‘scholars’ of the MUI.

Islamist ‘Scholars’ – “Don’t Complain if You’re Attacked!” 

But even the JG recognises that the government’s flip-flop in this case will only send the wrong signal and strengthen radical movements, because they now know they ride the public opinion…  http://thejakartaglobe.beritasatu.com/opinion/editorial-unilateral-website-ban-wrong-move/

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•  Yes, the sorry surrender will strengthen the forces of darkness here, but let’s get real..… the real public doesn’t give a monkey’s. In my local warteg, where lots of Indonesians were stopping by for lunch on my previous visits, not ONE person even mentioned it.

It’s ONLY the chattering classes ( apart from the fanatics) who, appropriately, give a monkey’s!

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Jakarta’s (and London’s and Washington’s and Canberra’s ) chattering classes

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But at least the JG has an editorial, frothing about freedom of expression. The Jakarta Post, which I’ve just also been perusing, has not, so far as I can see, given vent to an editorial stance.

Understandable, given how their own parent company, Gramedia, is still well-remembered for its own capitulation to the Islamist intolerance of the MUI and the FPI.

The Jakarta Post’s tame hacks have never yet condemned that infamous book-burning.

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Grovelling Gramedia’s Book–Burning Bonanza – Appeasing Fanatics 

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How could they dare publish any hypocritical mouthings on free expression today?

Ever Hear of the Moron Mansoor Abdul Hakim?

A midnight thought on the credibility of books, not novels but ostensibly non-fiction books written by drooling cretins.

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One such cretin is apparently Mansoor Abdul Hakim.

Here’s an extract from his scholarly tome “Women Who Deserve to go to Hell.”

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• “Men’s perfection is because of various reasons: intelligence, religion, etc,” Hakim explains. “At most, four women have this perfection.”

No, it’s not a joke book, but sold as serious reading in the Islamic Bookstore…

…in SYDNEY.

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Hakim is a lame-brained moron indeed, but laughable.

However, the place also gets away with retailing hate literature.

Another book there contains the following assertion –    “No one can deny the fact that the Jews are the worst kind of barbarian killers the world has ever known!!!

That’s from ‘History of the Jews!’ These books were reportedly on sale there in the second half of last year. Have the police moved in and closed down this hate-sty?

No, because it was in the news earlier this years, when we heard that the book store owners want political leaders to do more to promote harmony with the Islamic community. – 

Might be easier if they cleaned up the filth on their shelves!

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Or have the police at least removed the hate-literature made available by the sectarian management? 

I got my info on this, and much else, from the Aussie media –        … http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/last-drinks-in-lakemba-tim-blair-takes-a-look-inside-sydneys-muslim-land/ – read the whole article!

It exerts a kind of horrid fascination and reminds me of what Nigel Farage had to say about his trip on British public transport, on which he hardly heard a word of English.

‘Lakemba may be only 30 minutes from the centre of Sydney, yet it is remarkably distinct from the rest of the city. You can walk the length of crowded Haldon St and not hear a single phrase in English. On this main shopping strip the ethnic mix seems similar to what you’d find in any Arabic city.

How many similar comments might be heard in countries in Europe too? 

I find nothing at all disagreeable about shopping amidst a throng who speak another language. But I live in Indonesia. I adapt, as any civilised person should. No problem – I like Indonesia, even though one comes across Nazi-style elements here too, as we saw when the Jakarta Post’s parent company, Gramedia, revelled in a Hitlerian book-burning. 

Grovelling Gramedia’s Book–Burning Bonanza – Appeasing Fanatics 

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Yet most people here are pleasant and civil. Three Cheers for Jakarta, Where People Are Normal and Nice! 

Lakemba, by way of contrast, sounds a hellish place.

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The Sydney story was occasioned by the closure of the Lakemba Hotel, one of those typical old-fashioned watering holes that are unique to Australia.

Now it is no more.

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• I dare say it’s not the only good thing destroyed by multiculturalism, that insane policy that permits the importation of primitives who refuse to adapt. But sad, nevertheless….