Playboy Magazine a Smash in Indonesia
The much anticipated release of Playboy magazine drew mixed reviews from hardline Muslims in Indonesia who couldn't wait to get their hands on that first edition.
Members of Islamic Defenders Front tear an edition of Indonesian version of Playboy magazine apart during a protest outside the building housing the magazine's office in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, April 12, 2006. Muslim activists demanding that Playboy stop publishing the magazine in Indonesia stoned the company's editorial office and clashed with police officers guarding the building. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
After reviewing the "articles" (*wink* *wink*) the Muslims expressed their dissatisfaction with the style section tips to "spruce up your wardrobe with more color."
Muslim protesters burn an edition of Indonesian version of Playboy magazine during a demonstration in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, Wednesday, April 12, 2006. Dozens of Muslims staged the protest demanding the magazine to be banned. (AP Photo)
The hardliners were anxious to open channels of communication with the editors.
A member of Islamic Defenders Front throws rock at the building housing the office of Playboy magazine in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, April 12, 2006. Muslim activists demanding that Playboy stop publishing an Indonesian edition of the magazine stoned the company's editorial office and clashed with police officers guarding the building. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
The publishers thanked the hardliners for their suggestions and look forward to more feedback from their readers in the future.
Police officers are seen rushing to take position through the broken window of the building housing the office of Playboy magazine, during a demonstration staged by members of a radical group called Islamic Defenders Front in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, April 12, 2006. Muslim activists demanding that Playboy stop publishing an Indonesian edition of the magazine stoned the company's editorial office and clashed with police officers guarding the building. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
The hardliners smashed the windows to the Playboy offices today in protest over the release of the magazine:
Witnesses say the protesters smashed several windows and the door and gate at the magazine's offices in south Jakarta.Tim Blair says this is typical cartoon reaction.
Playboy's first edition in a Muslim country went on sale last Friday. It features no nudity, and the photos it does have are less risque than in other magazines already sold in Indonesia.
Pajamas Media has more.
posted by Gateway Pundit at 4/12/2006 04:03:00 AM
23 Comments:
So we see that indonesian muslims react to things they do not like in the same violent and childish way as arabic muslims .
these are two pretty distinct peoples and cultures.
can we conclude that islam really fosters an intolerant, violent mindset?
or are intolerant, violent cultures more susceptible to adopting islam?
Well, as for the lack of widespread violence in American protest, I think we can probably chalk that up to a more efficient rule of law than in the third world.
When it comes to the tolerance question... Hustler is illegal in many states, Alabama (or maybe Mississippi, I forget which) outlawed vibrators a couple of years ago, and we're only three years away from Lawrence V. Texas, and before that 18 states had anti-sodomy laws.
Intolerance, it would seem, really gets around.
This belongs in the category:
"You know things are bad when..."
Playboy? C'mon.
To quote Michael Jackson: "Just beat it."
If you watch closely, you'll see a lot of them are stuffing pages in their pockets when they think no one is looking.
> Hustler is illegal in many states
Really? Name 3.
> 18 states had anti-sodomy laws.
And the last 3 prosecutions were when?
TallDave,
That is actually very good news.
If they can do asymmetric warfare against us in the form of terrorism, we can do aymmetric warfare against their ideology in this manner as well. There is no cost to us, but the damage to radicals who want to control young men is immense.
A bit more on this bi-directional asymmetrical warfare here (which some of you may have read about already).
The last prosecution of a sodomy law here was only a few years ago, which is why the case made its way all the way up to the Supreme Court: a man convicted wanted the law overturned. He won the day, which ultimately is a good thing.
It should be noted of Indonesia that it is 88% muslim, and is also a liberal democracy. It has been moving rapidly over the last ten years toward greater and greater pluralism. It is also the largest Muslim nation in the world, bar none, with about 300 million souls.
They have their intolerant, violent elements. It was only 40 years ago that in this country we had good Christian men turning firehoses and siccing dogs on people who only wanted the right to do little things like vote.
It's interesting that we have seen here the equivalent of a book burning and an attack on a building--in response to the fact that it is now LEGAL to publish Playboy in Indonesia.
One step at a time, people.
Er, to correct myself above, Indonesia's more like 220 million. Sorry. The rest stands.
Those of you who are adamant about crapping all over the entire religion about Islam aren't doing the war effort any favors. See the case of Yenni Wahid in Indonesia for a look at what the real fight is. And it's a fight you can't be a part of if you just slam the entire religion... well actually you're a part of it, but you're on the radicals' side.
Jack: So we see that indonesian muslims react to things they do not like in the same violent and childish way as arabic muslims .
Not a surprise, though. Remember the cartoonifada?
Embarassing jihadi moment: When you try to tear apart the blasphemous depictions of infidel whores, only to discover the pages are stuck together with haram!
(What's the Indonesian phrase for "ewwwwwwwwwwww..."?)
Unleash the Weapons of Mass Cultural Destruction. Ship 10,000,000 iPods loaded with Hip Hop, video porn and Lawrence Welk. Give them away in the street.
The Muslims will drop into our hands lke over-ripe fruit.
Dean:
To equate Christianity with radical Islam by saying this: "They have their intolerant, violent elements. It was only 40 years ago that in this country we had good Christian men turning firehoses and siccing dogs on people who only wanted the right to do little things like vote." Is so illogical and slanderous that you should have recognized it and apologized immediately. First of all, the "Christian" men (proof, son?) that did this weren't doing it in the name of "Christianity." That's typical of the false equivalency we see in the MsM and not what one would expect of someone of your calibre. Secondly, even if one concedes your point that "good" Christians turned the fire hoses on blacks, isn't it revealing that it took a conscious effort on your part to reach back FORTY years to a highly incendiary moment in our history and compare it to religious fanatics burning bowdlerized copies of Playboy and stoning the offices of the publisher? Let me help you: (salem witchtrials). There. You win.
Now just wait a ding dang moment here people!!!!!
Sure, these fellows were tearing apart Playboys and breaking windows at the offices of the magazine, but did you ever stop to think that if you bought a Playboy with NO NUDE PICTURES that you may be rioting in the streets too?
I know I would!!!!!
kerry,
Lack of widespread violence in American protest is not due to more police officers here, but due to more widespread *respect* for the rule of law here. Sharia does not take priority over all else here.
What we are way more efficient at, of course, is justifying completely insane behaviors and in engaging in phony moral equivalence arguments about how burning buildings over cleavage shots is exactly like unenforced laws about Hustler.
I wonder how Indonesia's anti-sodomy policy compares to Alabama's or Mississippi's? One of them _kills_ every gay person they find... but I forget which.
Dean, I'm not sure where you came up with the idea that Indonesia is a "liberal democracy". They send you to jail for little things like showing a Bible to a Muslim, if you happen to be Christian. There was that "little incident" in East Timor that the Australians helped to settle. And don't I remember at least two sets of suicide bombings of tourists in Bali. But hey, I have a vivid imagination. And so do you, Dean. So do you.
I bet they remove all the good pictures before they burn them. Playboy hasn't been worth reading in decades anyway.
Well Thank Goodness! Finally those brave Islamists in Indonesia are standing up for respectful treatment of women! Why just moments later they stoned a woman for exposing the hair on her head and another for being a rape victim, and...uh, um...uh.. never mind.
Well, Dean, let's see.
40 years ago, some cops in a couple of Alabama counties used firehoses on demonstrators. And over the entire history of the Southern civil rights movement, stretching nearly 50 years, there were about three dozen murders.
30 years ago, in Indonesia, Muslims slaughtered 250,000 Chinese, men, women and children, from end to end of the country.
Yeah, I can see the equivalence. No difference at all.
Harry, a better example of Christian violence would be the Sabera and Shatila massacre in Lebanon in 1982, when hundreds of refugees were killed my Maronite Christians. Or the pogroms against Jews in Eastern Europe in the 1800s and 1900s. The Nazis made use of Christian symbols and theology.
The point is that to single out Islam as the only religion whose members carry out violence is misguided. To be aware of that, as Dean is, is not moral equivalence, it's just awareness and humility.
Good things come to those who wait..everthing shall come to an end...just imagine looking at your own grand mom, mom, wife or daughter goes naked in public.Two side of a coin.You feel damn proud of freedom of speech or figure??? or feel loss of dignity....Go to the zoo and you can judge for yourself....
I am very sad that why everytime you expose the bad things of everything ?
You don't expose the one who reject by doing the proper way ?
You expose only one small part of indonesia community who reject that.
But the way you present it, just like that due to the rejection, all indonesia do the criminals.
What an unfair writing!
Why don't you expose some blog who reject by making the comparison of rejecting vs supporting pettition.
or some who protest peacefully ?
or actress and artist who voice thei concerns peacefully ?
or religious leader (not only moslem .. christian, budhist, hindu, catholic)
Be very fair .. both side of story
like here www.kurniawan.com or goblogmedia.com etc.
The fanatics in Indonesia are there, but in a very small minority.
Sexy Indonesian babes?
see here:
http://indonesian-celebrities.blogspot.com/
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