Was that before or after Dr Hawking became MC Hawking with a successful rap career( http://www.mchawking.com/) ? ? ?
Posted on 01/31/2006 8:55:52 PM PST by Lorianne
JAKARTA: The 200-plus demonstrators from the student group Concerned Muslims who had gathered in light drizzle at one of Central Jakarta's main roundabouts had a simple message for passing motorists. "Reject Playboy! Reject Playboy!" they shouted. "Don't publish that filth here. Keep the Indonesian nation clean."
"We don't need that sort of porno here," said Muhammad Salim. "There's enough vice here already."
Yesterday about 500 protesters - all members of a conservative Muslim political party - demanded the parliament quickly pass tough laws now under debate to crack down on existing girlie magazines and pornographic DVDs, which are widely available throughout the country.
Playboy has signed a deal with a local company to publish an Indonesian edition, although Playboy's editorial director, David Walker, said publication had been delayed until "both partners are satisfied the product addresses the sensitivities of the marketplace".
It would not contain nude photos or graphic sexual content, Mr Walker said. "Any magazine we launch in Indonesia would be focused on many of the other things Playboy is well known for: high-quality editorial, including interviews and feature stories written by renowned local writers and journalists."
Such reassurances have counted for little among Indonesia's conservative Islamic leaders, who appear to be using this issue to gain the moral high ground.
Ferry Abdullah, who hawks magazines in the traffic jam along one of the motorways in West Jakarta, laughed off the objections.
"It's the porno that sells best," Mr Ferry said, flipping over an Ikea catalogue to reveal a copy of Tits, a locally produced magazine that consists of pictures of naked women and sex stories. "I've been trying to sell this catalogue for 10 days while I've already sold three copies of Tits this week."
The head of the Alliance of Independent Journalists, Eddy Suprapto, believes the opposition is ignorant, xenophobic and hypocritical.
"It's irrational hatred of a Western product. They don't know if it's good or bad," Mr Suprapto said.
Indonesia's criminal code does not define pornography, but MPs are trying to change that.
However, their pornography bill has run into opposition because they seem unable to decide what is decent. The bill outlaws husbands and wives kissing in public, Papuans wearing traditional dress (a penis gourd and nothing else), and the dancing that accompanies the folksy pop music known as dangdut.
Replace the Playboy with a magazine full of naked Pigs.
Yes, those many, many other things...
You sound like a Rat lawyer. If they want to stop porn, more power to them.
Oh yeah, like my mom ever believed that BS.
Good to see the Islamonazis still on the wrong side of every issue (the funda-MENTAL-ist, taliban side that craves theocratic rule).
To be honest, I read an interview with Stephen Hawking in Playboy that was one of the best I've ever read.
"The bill outlaws husbands and wives kissing in public, Papuans wearing traditional dress (a penis gourd and nothing else),"
Yes, well, let's hope that last one doesn't spread.
"To be honest, I read an interview with Stephen Hawking in Playboy that was one of the best I've ever read."
And I read a Playboy interview that convinced me that Jimmy Carter wasn't the right man for the Presidency.
I didn't see that one. But I heard about it. ;o)
HUH? You're the one wanting to use the deadly force of government to push your ways on other people. Calling for a consumer boycott is the non-government-intervention-way (aka conservative) to handle a situation.
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Was that before or after Dr Hawking became MC Hawking with a successful rap career( http://www.mchawking.com/) ? ? ?
And what world-shaking thinker is Playboy interviewing this month?
Al Franken.
(no thanks)
I skipped that one. : )
I also remember the one El Rushbo did a few years back.
I favor Muslim culture over Playboy culture any day. But then I prefer Hustler over both.
(And I mean all that.)
Just so you know, porn is what fueled a lot of the Internet growth, so you can pretty much thank the porn/nudity addicts of the 1990s for what we have today. So if porn doesn't advance society, then obviously the Internet hasn't advanced society.
HUH? If bank robbers use cars, then obviously the car doesn`t advance society.
Makes no sense
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