I don’t like flying. Never have, never will.
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In the days when I had time to spare, my choice was always the ocean wave rather than way up high.
But one resigns oneself to it, pretending one is on a bus and avoiding the sight of clouds outside your window. Now, however, taking an actual bus here in Indonesia, at least in one major city, is going to be a bit of an ordeal as well.
Bandung, West Java’s top city, has many buses going to and fro on its streets, and the Jakarta Post last weekend reported there’s to be a program for Islamic preachers to board city buses and give sermons.

Bandung looks normal, but it IS in West Java!
Cops Stop West Java Worship, Appease Islamist Louts
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Good grief.
Apart from the fact that no similar opportunity to hector helpless passengers appears to have been offered to Christian, Buddhist or Hindu preachers, who needs sermons when you’re on the way to work?
Anyone Muslim in Bandung, or anywhere in West Java, who wants to enjoy spiritual uplift, has a choice of multitudinous mosques to drop by. Most people who board a bus like to doze off, read a paper, or chat to whomsoever’s sitting next to them.
What gives Bandung City the right to disturb their preferred peaceful pastimes?
But it gets even weirder – the Mayor claims not to know anything about this sectarian propaganda scheme.

Mayor Ridwan Kamil
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“When they announced it, they did not have my permission. We have no such plan, why did they announce it? I am confused myself,” Ridwan Kamil said.
Seems like Hizonna needs to slap down those who’ve been keeping him in the dark about this bizarre plan, which was announced a few days earlier by H. Latief, the head of religious affairs at the city secretariat.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2016/08/15/bandung-mayor-has-not-given-nod-to-bus-sermons.html
According to Latief, the sermons will only happen on state-owned DAMRI buses. In Jakarta, they only run to the airport, but in Bandung, I don’t know.
Latief
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However, if they are state-owned, all the more reason to stop Latief’s scheme. Indonesia is NOT an Islamic Republic, but a multi-faith nation, so this putative sectarian hi-jack is totally out of order.
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- But Latief’s arrogance is unbelievable. He asserts that the sermons would be better than just daydreaming, communicating through cell phones or sleeping.
No way is that for the likes of some jumped-up wowser like Latief to decide for you or me, buddy! Talking to family or friends, or texting, are splendid ways to pass time on a bus, as indeed is sleeping.
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And it gets worse!
Turns out it’s a joint project between the Ministry of Religious Affairs’ office in Bandung, the Indonesian Ulemas Council (MUI) and Bandung Islamic State University.
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Ulemas are ‘scholars’ – so they say.
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- Hell, if the MUI has got anything to do with it, one must hope that the poor mayor can quickly regain control of his city administration. Any clerics the so-called ‘scholars’ approve are almost bound to be bad news!
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Ma’aruf
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It was MUI’s Deputy Chair who kindly advised everyone that FGM is a ‘human right!’
https://rossrightangle.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/clitoral-clip-no-scraping-suffices-tell-us-islamist-scholars-why-do-it/
And here’s another of their ‘scholars’ talking.
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“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
Syamsul Maarif, General Secretary of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) Jakarta
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So now we have a hint of what Latief means when he says the bus-preacher sermons would touch on the subject of “morals, good deeds, etc.”

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Mack the Knife 19:32 on June 16, 2019 Permalink |
I do think Lineker’s bad. A real big-head.
Celebrities have nothing to offer. I hope the voters of Goerlitz react to the interference by rich outsiders the way I would!
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Martha Longden 20:02 on June 16, 2019 Permalink |
Only 35% and all the others uniting against the AfD candidate?
Not much chance of a win but it would be so sweet if he did.
If the people in the town resent being told what to do by cosmopolitans, they might just show it, and all those pompous celebs would be sick as dogs.
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Gisela Weinar 20:14 on June 16, 2019 Permalink |
The problem is the Greens who had more than twenty percent of the votes and they are all far left.
A few of them are so far left that they might be unwilling to vote CDU even if to prevent the AfD winning.
Most Greens though are not that far left but they all love the fake refugee immigrants so they will do all they can to stop AfD.
It will be very interesting even so because in September there are Land elections in Saxony and in Brandeburg where AFD are strong.
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Vanessa Reilly 21:05 on June 16, 2019 Permalink |
Lineker is so bad.
If he was interestingly bad it wouldn’t be so bad but he’s such a bore!
The Goerlitzers are not big city pseuds. They will make up their own minds, but with 70% of them non-AfD, I can see no grounds for optimism.
But please do let us know.
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ross1948 23:44 on June 16, 2019 Permalink |
Sadly, the AfD lost the re-run, the CDU candidate got 55%.
However, the AfD’s Herr Wippel scored 45% which is not a bad total.
Better luck in September, when all Saxony elects its state parliament!
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Vanessa R 14:56 on June 17, 2019 Permalink
Thanks, Ross.
Now the result is being very dishonestly presented by the biased media as AfD failing a major test.
‘The vote in Görlitz was viewed as a test for the anti-immigration party ahead of regional elections..’ BBC
The AfD went from 35% to 45% and they only lost because ALL the pro-invasion parties coalesced behind Merkel’s candidate.
I for one do not see this as a ‘fail’ for the AFD.
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Mark Boreham 17:15 on July 5, 2019 Permalink |
I was reading how Boris told the BBC this week that they should sack that Eurofanatic Lineker.
A very good idea, because the ex-footballer knows less than a nine year old about politics.
What made me quake with anger was how much the clown gets paid by his anti-Brexit BBC bosses for his anti-Brexit tirades. The figure mentioned was ‘between £1,750,000 and £1,755,000 making him one of the BBC’s highest paid stars.’
That’s our money!
Star?
More like a burnt-out asteroid, sputtering gaseous vapours.
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