Posted on 04/12/2006 7:34:11 AM PDT by Grig
JAKARTA (Reuters) - About 300 hardline Indonesian Muslims vandalised a building housing the office of Playboy magazine on Wednesday in a protest against its publication in the world's most populous Muslim nation.
Clad in white shirts and skull caps the protesters threw rocks at the front lobby, breaking the windows of the building in the south of Jakarta several days after the magazine hit news-stands for the first time.
Shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest), the protesters also ripped apart several copies of the Indonesian Playboy, which unlike the U.S. original does not show any nudity.
Despite being a much tamer version, the magazine sold out very quickly, partly thanks to controversy surrounding its publication and protests from some Muslim groups.
Apart from Playboy, Indonesia already had its own versions of men's magazines Maxim and FHM, as well as homegrown publications, which feature colour pictures of women in minimal clothing.
Members of the hardline Muslim group that organised the demonstration, the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), are known for taking laws into their own hands, for example by attacking bars selling alcohol during the Muslim fasting period, and massage parlours.
Dozens of police were on the scene when the militants carried out the attack but did not make any arrests.
South Jakarta police chief Wiliardi Wizard told Reuters he would question the leader of the group in relation to the incident and detain the perpetrators.
"If they can hand over the perpetrators then that's good. Otherwise we'll have to hunt them," he said.
Authorities said that strangely enough, all the centerfolds were missing from the torn up copies of the magazine...
-Eric
They only riot for the articles...
For every thing in the world, there is probably a muzzie that is offended by it.
Always Happy Early!
"Indonesian Playboy, which unlike the U.S. original does not show any nudity."
I'll bet Indonesian National Geographic doesn't show animals, and Indonesian Mad magazine doesn't contain jokes.
These idiots need to ask themselves why their fellow man is supporting the mag by buying it. Or is it that they could possibly be expected to resist?
could=couldn't
I think all of them have multiple personalities. They are truly a mentally sick bunch. It must be the inbreeding.
They really object when anyone but them gets to see a woman naked.
Tehy, OTOH, are supposed to get 72 of them.
Maybe Playboy should put out a "72 virgins" issue.
Well...not naked animals, anyway.
An excuse to "sneak a peek"
Once again, media needs to be corrected. "Allah' does NOT mean "god" Allah is a NAME of the islamic god. The Arabic word for "god" is "ilah" as the Koran itself explains over 52 times. Media is determined to spread the falsehoods of Islam.
Qur’an 59:22 “Allah is He, no other Ilah (God) may be worshiped; Who knows both secret and open; He, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. He is Allah, Whom there is no other Ilah (God); the Sovereign, the [un]Holy One, the Source of Security, the Guardian of Faith, the Majestic, the Irresistible, the Superb, the Compeller: Glory to Allah! He is Allah, the Creator, the Evolver, the Bestower of Forms (or Colors). To Him belong the Best Names: whatever is in the heavens and on earth declares His Praises and Glory: and He is the Mighty, the Wise.” [ the concieted, the full of himself, the braggart, and a black rock]
They were showing their eyeballs again! The little WHORES!
(that felt good, I haven't used that line since the invasion of Afghanistan)
I'm just shocked that Reuters, of all groups, actually identified the perps as "Muslim" rather than .. "disenfranchised youts", "young men of middle eastern background" or other such euphamisms to avoid the "M" word..
I think all of them have multiple personalities. They are truly a mentally sick bunch. It must be the inbreeding.
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It's the so-called religion!!! It keeps them poor and ignorant and they have to manufacture some way to feel that they are not really inferior.
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