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Militant Muslim fundamentalists are working overtime to destroy Indonesia, like they have so many other countries. They attacked the offices of Playboy, even though the Indonesian version of the magazine has no naughty pictures.
A draft law before the Indonesian Parliament would impose Islamic strictures. It mandates large fines and jail terms for buying and distributing pornography, and makes homosexuality an offense. It also prohibits provocative dancing and requires women to cover pretty much every part of their bodies below the neck. It sounds very much like it was written by the Taliban.
Like most fundamentalist nations, the oppression and repression does not create a "pure" country, but a sexually dysfunctional one where people are pious in public and perverted behind closed doors. Indeed, a Web site with explicit sexual content that claims to have received more than 46 million hits last month lists Indonesia as its No. 1 source of viewers. Malaysia, another majority Muslim country, was listed at No. 4. It seems that militant Islam is the greatest thing to happen to the pornography industry since the invention of the motion picture.
5 Comments:
I'm sure our own American Taliban are taking notes furiously. . .and writing similar legislation here as well. . .
posted by Anonymous, at
4/18/2006 2:03 AM
Of course we see the same thing in the red states in this country. While good 'ol boy Cletus goes to church every week, bashes gay people in public and other minorites in private and votes republican every November, he's also at home jerkin' off to them nekkid lady pictures. If CSI came in and shined one of those blue cum-stain lights on the rug in front of Cletus's computer, it would light up like Las Vegas. B. Queer
posted by Anonymous, at
4/18/2006 9:48 AM
It's my understanding that many of these southeast Asian countries were relatively serene and happy while they were primarily Buddhist. After islam invaded, is when all the misogeny and homophobia began to run rampant. The same thing happened in Afghanistan. The Buddhist Afghanis were forced to convert to islam at the point of a sword.
posted by Anonymous, at
4/18/2006 10:00 AM
It's the same thing here: some of the most conservative, Bible-humping, Republican-voting people are also some of the biggest perverts. As someone who was always told to embrace his sexuality, I can't imagine what it's like to have to keep you sexuality so clandestine and secret. It must take quite a lot out of you. The fear, the shame, the guilt...who would want to live with that?
