Posted on 04/25/2002 10:51:48 AM PDT by Spar
Excuse me. I happen to live in Indonesia. This is my sixth year and I enjoy it very much. The SCUBA diving is awesome, the people are friendly, and the language is easy to learn.
Have you any close experience with Laskar Jihad?
Read what Christian girls and women are subjected to when their villages fall into Laskar hands.
Despite that, they were told their performance had not been satisfactory and that they would have to undergo a further ceremony. No one dared ask what it entailed. Men and women were separated and led away to a curtained area at the side of the mosque. When Marina’s turn came, she was told to remove her lower clothing and made to sit in the lap of one Muslim woman while another performed the circumcision.
The rusty razor blade she used had already been used on several other women without being disinfected.
"The razor was covered in blood," Marina recounted. "I was trembling and crying so they told me to close my eyes." The women told her that the cut would be "no more painful that an ant bite." That turned out to be a lie.
"The blade was so blunt that they had to cut again and again. It was so painful that I cried out," said Marina softly, hiding her face with her hands. Her six-year-old sister, Emiliana, was the youngest to be circumcised. "It was worst for her because she is so little. She cried and cried from the pain."
The formal name for this sweet little Islamic religious ceremony is clitorectomy I believe, an Indonesian muslim custom forcibly performed on Christian girls and women when the Laskar Jihad conquers a new village. It keeps the nasty women from acting out their beastly lustful desires in accordance with Indonesian muslim ideas of womanly virtue.
"Friendly people" indeed.
You can have them. I hope the SCUBA is great.
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