Indonesian Province Embraces Islamic Law

The Perfidious NY Times ^ | August 1, 2006 | JANE PERLEZ

[neverdem]

Oki Tiba/Imaji, for The New York Times
An man caught drinking at a beachside stall was sentenced to 40 lashes. The caning was televised nationally, and he fainted on the seventh stroke.

Timur Angin/Imaji, for The New York Times
A woman in Aceh being questioned by policemen who enforce Shariah, or Islamic law, which is also being adopted elsewhere in Indonesia.

[EagleUSA]

You let them in -- you live with it. Fools.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

Buh-bye billions in tourist dollars! Another tsunami? Get your muzzies to fix it, morons.

[Mike Darancette]

As our world strives for knowledge their world embraces ignorance.

[thebaron512]

Oh, well! Who the heck would want to visit a place where you might be punished for social drink and you're not even a local?!

[HKMk23]

STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

Ditto that, t.

[MarineDad]

"...public canings at mosques in front of pumped-up crowds...

...In mid-July, a 27-year-old man sentenced to 40 lashes fainted on the seventh stroke of a rattan cane from a hooded man in the yard of a mosque here in the provincial capital."

So the rags not only use these minaret-adorned JDAM targets for preaching and planning murder and destruction, but actively practice them there, too.

How convenient.

Friggin' lobotomists' cult...

[BIGZ]

These are sick people and if we let then into the United States this is what will result.

The United States lived with Jews since it's inception and the Jews assimilated into our culture, became American.

Muslims on the other hand will never assimilate into the American culture, their religion will not allow it. There is an assault on Christmas and other religious holidays in our country. The assault started with the Muslim voice being heard and Muslims total assault on Christianity in our country.

Liberals total hatred of President Bush will allow the destruction of the United States regardless of reality by their refusal to allow the President to fight the war on terror and the refusal to back Israel in their war on terror.

[hoosierham]

Sharia police=the real thought police.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

Not me, t. No way, no how. Caning isn't my favorite mode of 'social correction'.

[rod1]

Interesting. The little appreciated secrete is that much of Indonesia's businesses are really in Chinese (Buddist) ethinicity hands (while the government/politicians are all local Islamic). They have so far survived together not treading too much on each other's turf and recognizing their places.

That will all change with Sharia Law. They need the Chinese and must tolerate Buddaism (not to mention all that goes into entertaining/cultivating Japaenese businessmen) or they can forget having an economy.

BTW the Chinese ethinicity connection with money and business in Indonesia was important in other arenas. That was the reason Clinton's money for secrete sugar daddy Rialdi was an Indonesian businessman but the money flow was to China.

[jocon307]

"...they can forget having an economy."

Economy? They don't need no stinking economy. It's all abut SUMISSION, the less people have, the better they submit. This is the dream of Islamofacists, and their dream is spreading apace.

[muawiyah]

Isn't Banda Aceh the place God sent a message to just a year and a half ago ~ one that said "give up Islam" ~ God probably won't like this answer.

Bye, bye Banda Aceh!

[Peisistratus]

"This is the dream of Islamofacists, and their dream is spreading apace."

There are quite a few apologists on this forum that are helping with that....

[Zhang Fei]

There is an assault on Christmas and other religious holidays in our country. The assault started with the Muslim voice being heard and Muslims total assault on Christianity in our country.

I'm afraid Jews are the source of the assault on Christmas and Christian symbols. The average Muslim isn't much bothered by them because they assume that the US is a Christian country (although they'd like to convert it to a Muslim one). Jews believe it is a secular one. The Jewish position appears to be that it's acceptable to have a Jewish country, but not a Christian one.

[Peisistratus]

"I'm afraid Jews are the source of the assault on Christmas and Christian symbols."

I'd think the atheists of the Left are far more vocal on the matter.

[Civ]

"I'm afraid Jews are the source of the assault on Christmas and Christian symbols. The average Muslim isn't much bothered by them because they assume that the US is a Christian country (although they'd like to convert it to a Muslim one). Jews believe it is a secular one. The Jewish position appears to be that it's acceptable to have a Jewish country, but not a Christian one."

There is no 'Jewish position.' You think all us Jews get together in a room and hammer out a position we can all agree on, and thus it becomes 'the Jewish position'? How ignorant. Plenty of Jews are comfortable with a religious presence in public life. Moreover, if you define 'Christian country' as that which has Christianity as a state religion, there are dozens of those.

[Hawk1976]

Thank you for your post. I have never heard of a religous Jew having a problem with religous displays. I even have several friends who are Jewish that are on my Christmas present list. I'm on their list of people that they celebrate haunakah with.

[ccmay]

That was the reason Clinton's money for secrete sugar daddy Rialdi was an Indonesian businessman but the money flow was to China.

A lot of the businessmen on Malaysia and Indonesia have local Muslim names and perhaps even a local ancestor or two, but at home they speak Chinese, drink alcohol, and practice Buddhism if anything. They are Chinese through and through, and stay in touch with the old home village back in Fujian. I think Riady was one of these.