Posted on 12/12/2005 12:28:50 PM PST by LibWhacker
PLANS to install 500 condom vending machines in the capital of one of India's worst HIV/AIDS-affected states have angered Muslim groups so much they have taken to the streets to protest a "condom culture". Critics of the plan by the Tamil Nadu government and India's National Aids Control Organisation to put 500 machines in the capital of Chennai and 1000 more across the state later said it would degrade women and corrupt the young.
"We must fight AIDS, but these machines at public places will only promote sex outside marriage among the younger generation," said MH Jawahirullah, who heads Tamil Nadu's largest Muslim group, the Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam (Muslim Progressive Party).
Over 200 Muslim women, many in veils, hit the streets of Chennai waving placards denouncing the plan and shouting: "Don't ruin our culture, Remove these machines."
"The government is spreading condom culture through these machines under the pretext of fighting AIDS," Fatheema Jalal, convenor of the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, a Muslim group, told the rally.
"By this, our society will get more permissive and our youth will be ruined," she said.
India has more than five million HIV/AIDS sufferers, second only to South Africa.
But efforts to combat the spread of the disease have come up against deeply conservative traditions.
A popular south Indian actress was pelted with sandals, tomatoes and rotten eggs and hauled before a court in Tamil Nadu for saying recently it was okay for women to have sex before marriage, as long as it was safe sex, and that men should not expect their brides to be virgins.
While rejecting claims by some Muslim leaders that condoms were un-Islamic, Mr Jawahirullah said his party would also start protests if the machines were put in place.
Let's try forced sterilization then.
I don't think that would do it--unless the doctor took the whole thing.
Sorry, my solution was to stop the spread of the Islam virus, not the AIDS virus.
I was thinking: "gee we agree on something..."
Just say NO to condom machines--killing machines on the other hand.....
They are made of rubber using latex from Muslim areas like Malaysia, southern Thailand and Indonesia...
Ahmed, I don't like these ballons. They're greasy.
Hush, woman! Little Mustafa's birthday party starts in an hour. Blow up some more of those pink ripply ones!
and besides, the camel doesn't like the taste............
I have to agree that condoms are not the way to go. Don't we just love it when a school tries to give condoms away to our kids? Same thing. Keep your pants zipped (or tied, or whatever they use to keep them on).
They've got rampaging AIDs and they complain about the morals of the West?
They already practice birth control by beheading.
How bout they just have a muslim "fixing" party instead.
Of course, they don't want use of condoms...they are running short of people to strap on explosives..gotta' keep up with demand.
I strongly support universal birth control in muslim countries.
This coming from a culture that promotes rape. Now that is to funny.
No surprise here. Dark age thinking.
I've found condom machines to be highly effective. Once you drop your coins in the slot and twist that handle, you don't feel like having sex for weeks!!
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