Sect leader will not resist action (Giant Teapot "humiliating Islamic teachings!")

TheStar ^ | May 30, 2005

[USF]

More information here:

Escape from Islam

If you are Malay, you are Muslim. If you disagree, you are bound for court or jail. But recent raids on nightclubs and homes suggest the country's religious police are gaining a disturbing hold on society...

[USF]

Gee-what-doesn't-"humilate"-islam? Ping.

[BenLurkin]

Sounds like more like a garden variety zoning dispute than anything else. It is the wrong zoning for non-ag structures.

If the locals were smart though they'd sell tickets -- it looks a little like fantasy land.

[redgolum]

A friend of mine in college was Malaysian, and was a Methodist if I recall.

Christianity does exist, but mainly in the ethnic Chinese of the area.

[GSlob]

For still more profound significance a 5-store tall toilet would be very much in place. Its spiritual meaning [namely, that there are REALLY BIG a**holes!] could be enhanced still more if it were working. The mighty sound of the flush could substitute for the muezzin's call.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Gee-what-doesn't-"humiliate"-islam? Ping."

A lot of Muslims seem to have very fragile, unstable egos. I think at some level they don't believe their own religion, and must therefore destroy any visible signs of unbelief or apostasy to protect their psyches from their own unacknowledged lack of belief.

[muir_redwoods]

"Gee-what-doesn't-"humilate"-islam?"

I'm guessing that the latrine built out of korans is going to be a problem too.

[colorado tanker]

A teapot is an insult to Muslims? I wonder if those evil interrogators in Gitmo have been dangling teapots in front of the prisoners? I guess the Muslims had better burn down a few more KFC's.

[USF]

Please read the link in the comment... its an issue of islamic law (sharia) encroaching on the rights of all Malaysians (Muslim Bumiputra, and non-bumi alike), and the trumped up charges they'll sometimes use to push they way thru.

Members of this group have been labeled apostates, they refuse to follow the state invented "Islam Hidari" and they are being persecuted, while the Koranimals at PAS grow stronger...

In Malaysia (I speak as someone who has lived there as a dhimmi expat), they often don't get rid of you you using the direct route... remember Anwar Ibrahim?

[tiamat]

They need some Giant Teacups to go with the Teapot!

;-)

[JimSEA]

I am amazed that Ayah Pin is still alive, given what is in the longer article. That something this utterly harmless is taken so seriously is illustrative of the dangers of Islam. In Thailand, similar "cults" spring up, flourish and pass on constantly and no one is harmed.

[tiamat]

Sadly, Thailand is having trouble with islamists as well..

[USF]

Yup, locals can find themselves in indefinite detention (along with the customary beatings) over the most trivial of matters. The national and international publicity this guys getting may be one of the few things that are protecting him... so far.

[Fred Nerks]

"The problem goes back to the way Malaysia was formed on independence from Britain in 1957. The federal constitution gives the government power over most daily matters. But the sultans, the royal families in each state, were given the compensation prize of power over such things as religion. Religious law thus varies from state to state and depends on the personalities involved. A recent speech by the Sultan of Selangor was hailed by the progressive camp as a beacon of light because he suggested that overzealous interpretation of Islamic laws would only turn younger generations against the faith."

The Sultan is right, islam is losing its youth around the world, replacing the next generation of followers with psychopaths and deviants from jails.

[USF]

Selangor is also the most advanced and affluent of all the states where they have the most contact with foreigners (apart from in the capital itself which is surrounded by Selangor).

It holds a higher proportion of non-Muslims (Christian, Buddhist, taoist, Chinese, and Hindu, Christian and Sikh Indians) than most other states, who ensured it's economic success over that of the backward predominantly Muslim states.

The Muslim youth there come into contact with ideas and cultures of the west, and capitalist south east asia, in the large booming metropolitan areas and shun the backward and primitive lives of the malay kampongs (villages) their parents crawed out of... hence "Balik kampong" ("go back to your village") is a local phrase used to insult the more primative Muslims. ;o)

[tiamat]

You know a LOT about this!

Thank you for posting it!

(Good tag-line, BTW!)

[Random Nonsense]

hope this won't humiliate islam and muslims :)

A place formerly known as the ka'abah in mecca.

player's comments: world series in mecca: yankees sweep hajj!

in case you're wondering where the Ka'abah used to be, that's where the "Hebrew National" sign is.

[USF]

Thanks, and you're welcome! ;o)

[tiamat]

Hebrew Nationals are the best!

Especially if done up "Chicago Style"!

[USF]

It looks like the pitcher is tossing whats left of their black rock...