It seems like there's a bit of competition going on between the ultra-conservative ulamas in Malaysia and Indonesia. They're trying to outdo each other when it comes to issuing the most outrageous statement and/or fatwa of the day. It's long been known that ulamas in Malaysia are generally more conservative than their Indonesian counterparts but that seems not to be the case anymore.
In the past few months the conservative Indonesian ulamas, led by the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) and some factions within the two major Muslim organizations, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and Muhammadiyah, have gone fatwa-crazy and have been issuing rulings that simply boggle the mind. They called yoga and smoking "haram" (illegal) without much legal and theological basis at all. Granted that they might be following the footstep of their Malaysian brethren in trying to ban yoga for Muslims and were a bit crushed when the Malaysian ulamas beat them to the punch. This time the MUI mullahs are not going to let that happen again.
In the past few days they have put out a statement to ban Facebook, Friendster and other social networking websites from Indonesian cyberspace because they promote interaction between sexes, which creates lust that ultimately leads to pre-marital sex and other un-godly behavior. It's a way for these Indonesian moral police to show their Malaysian counterparts that they are entering the 21st century, albeit with a 4th century mindset, by issuing technologically-related fatwas. We are hip and cool, you see! The funny thing is that, when interviewed, these Indonesian Talibans have no clue what these social networking websites actually do and never ever been on any of them. Somehow they just knew that these websites are bad for our moral well-being!
And what's with this obsession about SEX? Major religions have this irrational attachment to the topic of sex, and it's almost always bad. It makes me think that these so-called "moral leaders" have nothing else on their mind other than sex. Sex is what they think about ALL the time. The call for banning social networking websites just goes to show how fertile their sexual imagination is and sexually-repressed these people are. If everything that we do can lead to sex, then we might as well lock ourselves up in the basement and never leave the house ever again. Oopps, I guess that is already happening to women in Afghanistan under the Taliban rule and in the Wahhabi-dominated Saudi Arabia.
Seriously, these little Indonesian mullahs are "closet sexual perverts" who think that everybody else is a sex freak just like them. Why don't you go fuck a camel before telling me what I can or can't do in my private life? Geez people, get a fucking life!
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