At least for us tourists it is an island paradise, but leave to Islam to take a good thing and mess it up and return to the stone age.
At least for us tourists it is an island paradise, but leave to Islam to take a good thing and mess it up and return to the stone age.
At least for us tourists it is an island paradise, but leave to Islam to take a good thing and mess it up and return to the stone age.
President Nasheed needs to take a stand against this Salafist nonsense.
If I were President of the Maldives, I’d say this; “No one is forcing you to drink alcohol, or visit bordellos, or pray to Buddha. We are a Muslim state; we are also a part of the rest of the world. If you sincerely wish to live in an environment where the strictest Sharia law is followed, move to Saudi Arabia. My government will cheerfully provide you with not only all the required documentation you may need for your emigration, we’ll even pay for your trip. One way. So you can have your perfect Sharia utopia - but you can’t have it here. To paraphrase the Americans, ‘The Maldives.....love it or leave it.’”
And if they riot, then the usual measures virtually every government on earth takes to put down civil unrest.
Is it just me, or are the Maldives a waste for a culture whose women wear burkas?
And we'll kill anyone who says otherwise!
The west needs to take away their airplanes, phones, cars, televisions, all inventions for modern man as they are un-islamic.
Well, if this is the Maldives’ attitude, I say
Let ‘em sink!
I think they spend a substantial amount of their time bitching about the ocean’s rise, etc.
Well, halting alcohol sales will put an end to the Maldives as a UK holiday destination. Good luck with that.
Global warming will handle this problem for us.
Funny how they are worried about their future as a resort destination when they are supposed to disappear any year now.
More primitivism.
The headline makes it sound like they are protesting against Islamic Law, but as I suspected, they are protesting in favor of their backwards system of suppression and terror.
...calling on the government to halt what they called "anti-Islamic" activities, including a plan to allow direct flights to Israel.The Islamihole activities in the Maldives have gotten worse since Thor Heyerdahl's book about his investigation of pre-Islamic navigation and settlements. One statue of some deity or other anthropoid critter had a local name which translated literally as "the owner of the fish". Some Islamihole in the village took it upon himself to downplay its origin, answering Heyerdahl's inquiry with, "a piece of fish can be any shape".