Islam the foreign Influence

Indonesia is a complete embarrassment on the international stage.

Thanks to a few Indonesians who have studied or lived in the Middle East. Some brought back a virulent form of Islam.

 Do the local radicals believe that their foreign Arab fundamentalist friends care about the culture of Indonesia and pluralism as an Indonesian way of life that has been the essential element of peace for decades??

Their sole purpose is to destroy peace, impose their twisted ideology in order to change the landscape of this nation to become more intolerant.

For some confused locals, Islam may be regarded as a culture therefore the Arabic style of dress is becoming more visible. Nonetheless, it is a form of colonization far worse than the previous one that has colonized Indonesia over 350 years.

Aceh Shariah Law violates Pancasila

The Indonesian government must acknowledge that they are guilty of crimes against Humanity by allowing Aceh to continue making illegal laws.

Article 28A
Every person shall have the right to live and to defend his/her life and existence.

Article 28B
(2) Every child shall have the right ...protection from violence and discrimination.

Article 28E
(2) Every person shall have the right to the freedom to believe his/her faith and to
express his/her views and thoughts, in accordance with his/her conscience.

Article 28G
(1) Every person shall have the right to protection of his/herself, family, honor, dignity and
property, and shall have the right to feel secure against and receive protection from the threat of fear to do or not do something that is a human right.

(2) Every person shall have the right to be free from...inhumane and degrading treatment.
Article 29

(2) The State guarantees all persons the freedom of worship, each according to his/her own
religion or belief.

Islam is not a culture, it is a religion

The average young Indonesians cannot differentiate between Islam as a religion and the Arabic culture as a culture of its own and vice versa.

The rich Indonesian culture dated back way before Islam was even born in the Arabian peninsula.

So why would the innocent young Indonesians be easily manipulated by religious fundamentalists to adopt otherwise a culture so foreign to the average Indonesians.

The younger generation has no room to be ashamed of the rich Indonesian culture brought forward by their forefathers. Islam is not a culture, it is a religion.

It looks like the fanatics are trying to persuade the young innocent Indonesians that the influence of Western culture in this day and age is downright haram. Then how come ignorant Muslims are killing each other in the name of what....

Boring Paradise

I find it odd that Islam is a religion that is so opposed to sex, alcohol in this life -

Yet in 'paradise' the reward is unlimited sex with perpetual virgins and boys, alcohol that does not make you drunk and non stop food.

But you never see God or experience judgement.

Mmmmmmm! sound very boring to me - almost a 'man made' version of 'paradise'. Well, if that's 'paradise/heaven' - I don't want to go there. It sounds boring to me.

Besides it sounds too much like something the ancient Greeks said. "What do the gods do when they want to destroy a man? They give him all the pleasure he wants."

But then again, Greek philosophy and the use of reason is something the Muslims made sure they rejected.

Indonesia's New Criminal Code

Indonesia gets a truly great revised Criminal Code. I like especially the part about black magic and any other kind of witchcraft (only if it can be proven ot be a fact of course) which indeed should be severely prosecuted but also that white magic is seen as a legal activity. Apart of course of controlling other serious social and moral troubles as for example cohabiting couples and their dirty offspring (truly disgusting isn't it?)

The government is screwing up Soekarno's splendid vision of Pancasila, turning it into a distorted religious manifesto.
The same as they screwed up religious freedom by mandating that you MUST belong to one of only 6 religions.

When will this country's so-called 'leaders' understand that mandating morality to conform with their primitive views will not only never work, but is the hallmark of all autocratic theocracies?

I think it's an important and major step forward into the 7th century (oops ... I meant to write 21st century but somehow something's wrong there).

New Muslim mob rule?

A church got smashed up by the FPI, The pastor got arrested while not one of the FPI members got touched by the Police and a Youtube Video about this incident has been removed due to 'shocking or disgusting content' - Says it all really.

This video was proof of the disgusting Muslim mob rule that is extending across the archipelago.

Indonesia is going to become a VERY dangerous place.

Democracy nearly dead

Indonesia is moving towards a theocratic Muslim state. Democracy is nearly dead - even before it had a chance to live. Why?

Because the majority of people in Indonesia are Muslims - they belong to a totalitarian religion.

Indonesia will soon become another failed Muslim state under an oppressive regime.

It would be interesting to ask SBY if he really believes democracy is suitable for Indonesians. Or ask any other politicians. I am convinced they nearly all have reservations.

The bottom line is this - you have here a society based on submission. What you need is a society based on partnership - which implies equality and respect for human rights based on natural law.

Not much chance of that in Indonesia sadly.

Early & late Sunday Girls

Inhuman behavior 'in the name of God'

Most question addressed to the Muslim community are secondary questions. THE question that needs to be put before Muslims is this: Did God really reveal to the Prophet his directive to use violence against those who do not accept Islam?

Or was this simply politically expediency on the part of those who - over generations - formulated the Koran in the final form we have it today - dating from the 9th Century?

SOME Muslim scholars ARE asking this question - one did recently in Lebabon (2004) and his students threw him out the window. For blasphemy of course!

Muslims are violent because their book allows them to be violent. But who wrote the book?

The convenient answer is that the Angel Gabriel 'revealed' it to the prophet.

Well, it's a convenient story and excuses all kinds of inhuman behavior 'in the name of God' and allows people to 'righteously' deal with 'infidels'. And to do so - you simply put reason aside.

Muslims need to be asked some awkward questions. For Islam's sake.

STOP romanticising Arabs

Indonesian Muslims as a whole should STOP romanticising Arabs and get with the facts that it is the Arabs and not Israelis who are disrespecting and harming their countrymen, and do something about it! 

Just because the Prophet Muhammad was an Arab doesn't mean his fellow Arabs are angels and deserve to be put on a pedestal and worship! 

In fact their behavior should be even MORE scrutinised! And if they do scrutinise at all, chances are they will realize that today's Arabs fall way too short of Qua-ran standards of good behavior!

How to call this

A British woman is sentenced to death for drug trafficking. Apparently her family had been threatened, so forcing her agreement to do this.

She has helped the police in every way since her detention, to no avail. But now, four cops in shariah-infested Aceh, have conducted a brutal rape where the victim was drugged, and all the sentence they may get is a maximum of caning.

Also a politician's son kills 2 people but no-on3e is seriously holding him responsible.

How to call this???

Recipe for intolerance and persecution.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has called for the nation not to ignore the voice of minorities in what he insisted was a multicultural democracy.

He called on all Indonesians to accept differences, including fundamental ones in religion, race and ethnicity.

“The views and aspirations of the (Muslims) majority indeed have to be accepted....

 Well, that in itself is a recipe for intolerance and persecution.

Update! 

Human rights watchdog Amnesty International is calling on the Indonesian government to end its discrimination against the Shiite Muslim minority in Madura, East Java, and guarantee the community a safe return to their homes.  

“The Indonesian authorities must guarantee the safe, voluntary and dignified return of the Shia community to their homes, according to their wishes, and help them to rebuild the homes that were damaged or destroyed,” said Isabelle Arradon of Amnesty International’s Asia Pacific Program.

There couldn't be a sharper contrast between Amnesty's call and SBY's lame appeal to listen to Indonesia's minorities.

Failed State

“Egypt is on the list of failed states,” and the Arab world is “a collection of failed states who ADD NOTHING TO HUMANITY OR SCIENCE” because “people were taught not to think or to act, and were consistently given an inferior education.”

- Mohammed El Baradei, NY Times, February 10, 2011

He sums it up so well!!!

Note!

Recent new failed states members: Tunisia & Syria.

How long will it take for Indonesia to become another failed state?

Hijab protects from sexual assault

A Pakistani man in Australia had the audacity to say in court that his 14 year old rape victims had no right to say that they were raped because they did not wear hijab.

and here

AN Afghan soldier was detained by police after being caught having sex with a donkey in southeastern Afghanistan, a police officer said today.
The soldier was discovered with the donkey in an abandoned house in a small village of Gardez, the capital of Paktia province, last week, a local police officer said.

Does the donkey didn't wear a hijab too??

Are Bananas Halal Then?

Iran's Supreme Court revoked the death sentence of a university professor convicted of blasphemy for a speech in which he declared that Muslims were "not monkeys." 

 However, the defendant's lawyer said his client would likely remain in prison for his conviction on charges of spreading lies. 

So, as a matter of Iranian law, denying that Muslims are monkeys is not blasphemous but merely dishonest.

I'm glad that's been sorted.

A deadly virus

Today's Headline:

KPK Detains Ex-Health Ministry Director in Bird Flu Vaccine Case

This is only one step above stealing Hadj funds. Both are just about as low as one can get. One steals from the religious following one of the 5 major pillars of their faith and the other steal the ability to treat the sick.

There seems to be a total disconnect between people in government positions and the actual people they are supposed to be serving. There is no conscience nor compassion for those who are adversely affected by their actions. It is a total lack of empathy with anyone outside their family circle.

I am quite sure that these people do not even think that what they have done is wrong. They will believe they are entitled to it because they are in official positions, "serve" the country and do not get paid enough plus of course everybody does it.

They even go to Friday prayers and pray for forgiveness believing that in the end their god will forgive when a true act of contrition is presented at the end of their lives.

A deadly virus that runs so very deep.

Ask the Imam

Ask the Imam.com (your on-line fatwa resource), attempts (somewhat unsatisfactorily to my thinking) to answer a question undoubtedly plaguing Muslims everywhere -- can I roger the little woman with a dildo?

Q: Is use of sex toys like dildo on private parts of wife and husband permissible in Islam? A: The use of sexual toys to enhance foreplay is permissible on condition that these toys do not cause any harm or contain any forbidden ingredients. Similarly, these toys should not be inserted into the female private part, except in the case of dire necessity.

I understand that the pork sausage is out of the question, but I'm a little unclear on this 'dire necessity' concept. Obviously, one wouldn't want to insert anything gratuitously, but who gets to decide when its necessary, me or her? If she threatens to cut-off conjugal relations unless I give her the business end of the John Holmes Limited Edition, that clearly counts. But what if she's merely hollaring "stick it in me and make me scream you big jihadi stud you"?
I was going to e-mail my questions to the Imam himself but, unfortunately, further investigation casts doubt upon whether he can offer any true enlightenment. I'm beginning to have my suspicions regarding his relevant expertise. For example:

Q: Is it ok to masturbate wife. If she gets climax during masturbation does she hove to take a bath? A: If the wife reaches orgasm and releases semen, then only is [a bath] compulsory upon her?

Mufti, if his wife releases semen upon orgasm, a trip to the shower is the least of his worries.
All I can say is thank God I was born Catholic and not some religion filled with guilt, superstition and sexual repression.

Being an Atheist

Atheists have nothing to defend. They simply do not believe in the existence of a god or any supernatural power effecting their life and the world around them. Simple as that. It is your inability to perceive a concept of that nature that makes you what you are. Locked in a fantasy and enslaved by the fictitious nonsense of men bent on controlling the masses through fear.

They have no fear of death as there is no heaven nor hell. They have no fear of being punished for how they conduct their interaction with other human beings as long as it is not destructive. And they are free to experience the magnitude of the human spirit and the magnificence of the world unhindered by twisted men spewing out venom and fear at all that is good in human condition. They free of delusions created by men from the desert that sought to subjugate all around them.

Agnostic.. ha ha not chance. Life is far too good without screwing it up with belief in a god.


This was taken from a friend of me an "Atheists" I don't want to mention his name as Atheism isn't allowed in Indonesia, even he could get prosecuted for being an Atheist.

Islam can't take criticism

Islam can't take criticism - and more importantly - can't allow self reflection and self criticism, because in the 12th century it 'closed the Gates of Reason'. Prior to this, Islam used Greek philosophy and other insights to interpret itself, but during a long and sometimes violent internal struggle between various Islamic 'theological schools of thought' from the 9 - 12 centuries, this scholarship and dialogue was eventually forbidden. Hence Islam is now in a cult-de-sac of it's own making.

In 2004 in Lebanon, an Islamic scholar in one of the universities was explaining to his students about the possible development of both Islam and the Koran from an historic, political and literary perspective. Because this did not tally with popular Islamic fundamentalist thought, some of the students rushed him and literally threw him out the window. This kind of thing is not an isolated incident and is symptomatic of the problems facing Islam. A closed system of thought?

What is the true story?

Following one of this tourist forums for Langkawi, I can read posts from westerners, telling us how dirty and spoiled the Island get, and that we all should do something, and that they care so much for the environment.

Fair enough, that's very honorable thinking.

But, the same people are promoting this Island to tourists, are trying to inspire them to visit Langkawi. They are trying to get more people there, so that more rubbish can be left in the mangroves, more boats can pollute the sea, more jungle have to move for Highways and Buildings and so on.

The true story actually is that this people are trying to tell us how much they care to build up some trust level and with this to create an easier sell for their tourism products they are selling.

And again this all is bullshit. Don't ever trust a white face living on Langkawi, this race is only trying to take advantage of you to cover up their own complexes.