More Than 1 Plague? Fanatic Java Mob Amok!

While here in Indonesia the Chinese Virus rages, some 68000 dead so far…

Indonesia Prepares for Worst-Case Scenario as Covid Cases and Deaths Set New Record

https://jakartaglobe.id/news/indonesia-prepares-for-worstcase-scenario-as-covid-cases-and-deaths-set-new-record

…we had a reminder of the archipelago’s other plague yesterday.

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Sectarian fanatics ran amok in Tasikmalaya, West Java, demanding the release of Rizieq….

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Rizieq the Fanatic, cuffed

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…erstwhile leader of the banned FPI, self-styled ‘Defenders of lslam Front…’

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…a violent vigilante gang.

‘During the riot, they pelted the officers with stones and other hard objects. They continued to move and tried to break down the gate of the prosecutor’s office…

https://www.liputan6.com/regional/read/4605108/tuntut-hrs-bebas-massa-rusak-3-mobil-polisi-di-kantor-kejaksaan-tasikmalaya

The brutes were beaten off, but not before three police vehicles were vandalised and one officer injured.

Rizieq’s trial has been on-going for some time.

Bravo Nikita! Sexy Star Faces Fanatic Mob Threat!

Jakarta Year’s End Treat – Fanatic Gang Put Down!

Read our previous reports for the background.

Garut Gals Will Cheer You Up – Unless You’re A Kill-Joy!

Pretty dismal news on all fronts, and, sadly predictably, when something very un-dismal happens, the kill-joys start braying.

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Garut is located in Indonesia’s West Java province, a source of much unpleasant news over the years… 

 https://rossrightangle.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/depok-jadi-kota-pki-islamist-council-grabs-private-property-communist-style

https://rossrightangle.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/adolf-hitler-if-the-jews-disappear-the-problem-disappears/

Ahmadi Koran burned by Islamists in Cisalada, 2011

https://rossrightangle.wordpress.com/2012/07/14/west-java-islamists-again-attack-ahmadis-blame-foreign-journos/

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…but here’s a sight to cheer up all normal people, guys at least!

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Dancers at Garut Culture Fest, a week ago.

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Great stuff, yeah?

But we read in  Tribunnews.com that –

The dancing of those girls evoked controversy from the citizenry of Garut.

The local ‘scholars’ got all fretty.

’The girls’ activity is deemed not to reflect the vision of Garut Regency!’

Oh dear!

The local Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) chairman, Sirodjul Munir, holds that whoever staged this ‘must take responsibilty, because the show does not accord with Garut culture. Moreover, the dancing could be seen by minors!’

“It’s clearly haram! It has disturbed the morality of the people.”

Like, uh, which people?

The audience didn’t seem at all upset, and since there is no nudity evident in the video…

https://banjarmasin.tribunnews.com/2020/03/21/viral-video-tarian-erotis-di-garut-bikin-heboh-faktanya-ditonton-banyak-pria-mui-beri-tanggapan?

…though it’s hard to tell, because the video is blighted by the imposition of opaque intrusions, similar to the way state censors here blur cleavage when a bar-maid in a film bends forward!

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….why bring minors into it?

Do West Java folks never wear shorts?

Sadly, it appears that the deputy regent joined in the whining, regrets galore!

The MUI man is no doubt a worthy successor to the gent who held the same position nine years ago…

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https://rossrightangle.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/ban-miss-world-say-kill-joy-clerics-why-she-aint-sharia-compliant

…who objected to the lovely Miss Universe contestant pictured above, and we are all too familiar with the thinking of the ‘scholars…

“A Wise And Noble Step?” Islamic ‘Scholars’ On Terrorist Unleashed In Indonesia! 

 Bali Hindu King – Don’t Kill Our Cows! Muslim ‘Scholars’ – Get Lost!!  

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

…and not just in West Java!

But when people in Indonesia, just like everyone else in the world, are feeling stressed and depressed, can the wowsers not lighten up and choke back their kill-joy chorusing?

‘Kota Setan?’ Devil City In Java? Fanatics Fume Over Festival!

Well, how many of you, dear readers, paid attention to recent comments emanating from the FPI, the self-styled ‘Islam Defender Front?’

None of you, probably, if you live overseas!

But here in Indonesia, ever since President Jokowi chose to share a platform with Habib Rizieq, the FPI ‘High Priest,’ one is surely ill-advised to ignore their utterances, however bizarre.

Rizieq, on the left, Jokowi, on the right

So Has Indonesia Come To This? Paradise Lost? 

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And they don’t come much more bizarre than the latest outburst from the white-shirt vigilante gang’s Purwakarta gauleiter, Muhammad Syahid Joban.

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FPI’s Syahid Joban

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It’s not exactly the first time that Islamist fanatics have shown signs of stress over matters relating to that provincial city.

In 2011, a pack of sectarian louts went on a rampage of vandalism against various statues of legendary figures from the widely revered Ramayana pantheon… 

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Ignorant Islamist Bigots Attack Indonesia’s Heritage, Java Statues Wrecked. 

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Then in 2015, they got their (presumably white) knickers in a right twist about massive resistance to their activities by decent Muslims, when Rizieq’s appearance there had to be protected by police.

Bravo, Purwakarta! IslamoNazis Cower Behind Cops – Again! 

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This time that geezer Syahid was in a tizzy, railing at the popular and entertaining local regent, Dedy Mulyadi, because of a festival in the West Java city.

“Never participate in the Jurig Festival,’ ranted Joban.

Why?

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Jurig parade

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Well, it seems the cultural festival has been outrageously focusing on culture, not religion.

And one of the traditional carriages in the photo was allegedly used to bring a buffalo to a ‘polytheistic’ event. Joban was in the news last year, when he tweet-scolded Jokowi for having had the carriage to the National Palace!

http://www.panjimas.com/news/2016/08/13/ulama-purwakarta-pak-jokowi-kenapa-anda-bawa-kereta-jurig-ini-ke-istana/

Now the indefatigable extremist is yelping on the same cultural festival, again!

‘Religion comes first, then culture, not the other way about!’  

http://www.viva.co.id/berita/nasional/943299-fpi-sebut-festival-kebudayaan-purwakarta-cuma-bikin-gila

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Like, uh, why, we might be tempted to ask again!

But not, perhaps, if we read the Viva.com article all the way through.

It becomes clear that the white-shirts are still harping on their grudge against Dedy Mulyadi…

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Islamist Insanity – ‘He’s Married The Goddess of the South Seas!’ 

…which we’ve noted in the past!

The fanatics reckon Dedy nurtures hopes of becoming West Java’s Governor!

‘Don’t ever let that happen!’ says the Gauleiter, who wound up the rant by warning his fans not to fool around when it came time to choose regional leaders.

“Otherwise, Purwakarta will become a ‘Devil City!'”

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Ooooh! Scary!

Or….WOW!

Such a transformation might promote a different brand of tourism from that our in-coming Jakarta Administration is said to be contemplating.  

Get Your Tickets Soon – Jakarta Shariah Tourism Boom?

Iniquity Of Polygamy – Bandung Mayor’s ‘Men Only’ Plea!

Bandung Mayor Ridwan Kamil, a social media aficionado, told Idul Fitri masses gathering at the Gelora Bandung Lautan Api stadium in the city that it was better for married men in Bandung to not commit polygamy.

In most civilised countries, polygamy is outlawed.

Here in Indonesia, however, there is official disapproval, but there’s no ban, and a quite a lot of backward men do indulge in it, notably Islamist fanatics.

Kontroversi Poligami – Shariah Sexists Shrilling Stridently! 

What I personally find most disgusting is not that some men are so over-sexed that they can’t be content with one wife…

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….but that the law lets them get away with it – whilst making NO provision for similarly over-sexed women to enjoy reciprocal carnal indulgence.

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If a man can have four wives, both justice and common sense surely require that a woman can have four husbands – both scenarios sound God-awful to me, but…

…well, fair’s fair, yeah?

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Polyandry, of course, is NOT countenanced under any circumstances!

But Ridwan, whom we have met before in these columns…

Pluralism? Muslim Sermons on Public Buses? 

Bandung Mayor Reports Twitter Twit to Cops – Understandably! 

‘Bandung, City of Pigs!?!’ 

….does not try to argue the case against polygamy on the grounds that it is obviously iniquitous!

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Mayor Ridwan Kamil

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He is, you see, a 2018 West Java gubernatorial election hopeful – so he’s actually courting the votes of single males!

“I call on married men here to not commit polygamy. Please have pity for those men who have yet to find a partner in life,” said Ridwan..

What about women who are single?

Aaah, but perhaps Ridwan’s audience was segregated?

I suppose if all those single blokes do get hitched, the single Bandung chicks (who are generally very cute) will, by logical corollary, get snapped up.

But it seems superficial to preach against a social blight on such mundane, self-interested grounds.

Still, Ridwan DOES have a reputation for joking.

Anti-Valentine Raids On Java Bed-Sits? :

Did you post your Valentine card with a crayoned SWALK on the back of the envelope, as we did when we were approaching adolescence..

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If so, one hopes the SatPol PP ( civic militia, aka sectarian goon-squad) in Sukabumi, West Java, didn’t catch you doing so!

Bigots in uniform are planning to stamp out celebrations of St. Valentine’s Day.

“We’ve ordered night clubs and hotels not to put up Valentine’s Day decorations,”

http://jakartaglobe.id/news/sukabumi-bans-valentines-day-celebration-night-clubs-hotels/

That’s how Sudrajat, SatPol boss in Sukabumi, seeks to wage his sectarian war on freedom. And no only that. 

The agency, the police and military officers may raid night clubs, hotels and rented rooms, known as kos, to make sure everyone complies to the order.

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Stomping bed-sits to enforce kill-joy sectarianism

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The brazen intolerance of this geezer, and of the benighted establishment he serves, alas, comes as no surprise to anyone familiar with West Java’s reputation.

West Java Islamists Again Attack Ahmadis, Blame Foreign Journos 

Cops Stop West Java Worship, Appease Islamist Louts 

Christians Abused by Islamist Mob, Cops Fail to Enforce the Law

ANOTHER West Java Crack-Down on Religious Liberty

I’m not worried about any dearth of postal deliveries today.

But it does worry me that prejudiced pipsqueaks can tell citizens in a free country what they may, or may not, celebrate.

Nobody wants to force rabid Islamists to send Valentines – damn sure they won’t get any more than I expect to get!

But stalinoid sticky-beaks can tell NON-Islamists what days they can enjoy, or in what way?

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• It’s outrageous when they rant about invading people’s private residences, those humble kos bed-sits, to scrutinise how tenants are spending their free time.
• If that’s what’s happening, with the ‘police and military officers’ ( the military are under the authority of the Government of Indonesia, not provincial prigs) how long can my Indonesian friends count on Indonesia remaining a free country?