Posted on 12/17/2006 4:11:51 PM PST by Mount Athos
Tsunami aid sent to an Indonesian province has freed government funds for the lashing of women for purported violations of Islamic law, a report said Sunday.
Militant Islamists in Indonesia's Aceh Province now impose Shariah law and pay moral vigilante forces to harass women and stage frequent public beatings, The Times of London reported.
More "Shariah police" than regular police are on the local government payroll, with many of them aggressive young men, the newspaper says.
International aid workers say the flow of foreign cash for reconstruction has allowed the government to spend scarce money to enforce such laws as the compulsory wearing of head scarves.
The vast majority of Indonesia's 220 million people opposes Shariah law and practices a more tolerant version of Islam. The country's secular constitution calls for spiritual harmony and voters have consistently rejected calls for an Islamic state.
The Aceh Province, on the northern tip of the island of Sumatra, is the closest point of land to the epicenter of the massive 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake that triggered the deadly tsunami that killed more than 275,000 people worldwide.
That disgusting are you telling me all money we gave to Tidal wave they using as sharia law enforcement that disgusting that does it I not going give money to any Muslum country that get nail with disaster
-ccm
It should have long ago become apparent to even the most naive bleeding heart lover of mankind -- that pouring money into the stone age African tribal/voodoo "culture" or the bronze age Islamic misogynist and murderous "culture" would do less good that harm.
The uncountable BILLIONS of charity, foreign assistance, medical assistance, food and agricultural assistance, etc, etc.......has done little to endear us to the ever dissatisfied receiver of our charity....
They still in large measure, despise us and wish us dead..
Semper Fi
Man what a religion---sign me up.
I can go to Norway and have my pick of fine women to rape and then go to Indonesia, get me a whip and bate hell out of them to my hearts content. All the while the women who belong get covered up in robes, take beatings, die for not marrying who their family tells them to, and volunteer to be suicide bombers.
The men in this religion are pschychotic insatiable sadists and the women are their adoring masochists. All in the name of some pedophile, homosexual ,lunatic named Muhammed.
And these are some of the supposed "moderate" far eastern Muslims?
And these are some of the supposed "moderate" far eastern Muslims?
By the way I didnt send them a quarter, my donation went to Mississippi.
Who didn't know that this was going to happen?
If they are on the payroll of some level of government, they aren't "Vigilantes".
If they are on the payroll of some level of government, they aren't "Vigilantes".
You knew this was going to happen. Why act so surprised it?
Sheesh, didn't you see the pictures of the kids with bin Laden shirts on?
was this money supposed to ingratiate the US public to the muzzies???
lot good it did!!!!
giving money to muzzies....was the same as pissing in the ocean after a tsunami.....
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We spent more money on these ingrates than we do helping kids in our own country...have a look in the Appalachian Trail first and help the hundreds of thousands of poor people there and then work our way over to the inner cities and low income families who are beyond struggling.
I don't mind the U.S. being generous with my tax dollars...however..we go absolutely overboard with other countries who hate us and who do crap like this.
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