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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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!
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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.
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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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The Sharia Hell of Aceh!
…like the girl in the picture.
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Jim Ex Jakarta 08:28 on February 14, 2022 Permalink |
With nearly everybody WFH in Jakarta?
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Carly McLean 08:43 on February 14, 2022 Permalink |
I’m not where you are and I’m glad about that.
Poor kids, can’t have fun even on Valentines Day.
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Wanita Pintar 09:25 on February 14, 2022 Permalink |
Embarassing story.
My thinking about this is as follows.
If all these anti-valentine men think much more adultery happens on 14/2, where is their evidence?
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