Is Islam ready, as Miss Indonesia dons a swimsuit for beauty pageant?

AFP ^ | 5/25/05

[marymc]

PHUKET, Thailand (AFP) - Indonesia hasn't sent a contestant to the Miss Universe pageant in almost a decade, since its last competitor dared to show up at the swimwear event, incurring a ban from then dictator Suharto.

But Artika Sari Devi, a 25-year-old law graduate and this year's Indonesian ambassador, says that despite vocal opposition from religious groups back home, she believes the world's largest Muslim nation is ready to compete once again.

When she slipped into a swimsuit on a Phuket beach with other contestants last week, Artika knew was stepping into uncharted territory.

[infidel29]

The feminst's radicalism has nothing to do with puritanicalism, it's anger over the percieved subjugation of women at the hands of men over the centuries. While in some cases, like in the Muslim world, their anger is justified, there have been examples of matriarchies who persecuted the males of their societies, but not on an equal scale.

Feminists would outlaw beauty pageants not because of prudishness, but because in their eyes it is the continuation of women's objectification at the hands of slobbering males who only see value in their sexuality.

Clearly our views are different on this, and I don't want to argue over it. IMO we're just sharing opinions =)

[international american]

Yep

[Lazamataz]

I won't rest until the Miss Islamic Porn Star awards are convened -- sponsored by Budweiser -- and the winning porn star is named "Mohammad's Little Virgin", and is backed by Jimmy Dean Pork Sausage Company.

[stripes1776]

Clearly our views are different on this, and I don't want to argue over it. IMO we're just sharing opinions =)

Engaging in polemics isn't the sharing of anything--it is argumentation. It is what a good conversation is about. There is no need for the obsequious smiley.

[Bars4Bill]

I meant muslims and feminists respectively. In other words, in that order and applicable to those groups.

Muslim "males" are notorious boy buggerers; have been for centuries.

I do not know if gays are feminists or not. Buy the New York Gay Times tomorrow and read op-ed.

Gays hate women, but want to be women, hence the lisp and limp wrist.

Lesbians hate men, but want to be men, hence the butch cut and Sears workboots.

A logical person would conclude GLBT are raw sewage.

[stripes1776]

Muslim "males" are notorious boy buggerers; have been for centuries.

That is true. They are also notorious fascists. The penality for any man for being convicted of the crime of homosexuality in Saudi Arabia is death by beheading. That is also part of the agenda of the Islamofascists that crashed those planes into the World Trade Center.

Buy the New York Gay Times tomorrow and read op-ed.

I wouldn't pay a wooden nickel for the NYT, so you will have to give a link to it.

A logical person would conclude GLBT are raw sewage.

You can disagree with someone without calling them raw sewage. When you find yourself agreeing with Islamofascists, it is time to re-evaluate what constitutes logical thinking as opposed to religious fascism.