Monday, July 24, 2006

And People Think Conservative Christians Are Strict

JAKARTA, July 24, 2006 (AFP) - Indonesia's Miss Universe contestant, who failed to win a title, may face indecency charges after a hardline Muslim group here reported her to the police, a lawyer said Monday. The women's chapter of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) reported Miss Indonesia, Nadine Chandrawinata, to the Jakarta police over her appearance at the pageant, said Sugito, who heads the front's legal counsel. "We are reporting her and several others involved in her participation in the Miss Universe pageant, for intentionally and openly engaging in indecency," Sugito said, adding that lawyers for the group filed the complaint on Friday. "Her vulgar appearances at Miss Universe is an insult to Indonesian women," he said, adding that participation in the beauty pageant, which includes posing in a bikini, went against the culture of predominantly Islamic Indonesia.

2 comments:

Al-Ozarka said...

I found the story today at MM's place.

How many times have you heard a liberal say that because of Christian influence in US government we are on the road to theocratic rule?

Will they EVER figure out who the real enemy of freedom is?

Lone Ranger said...

THEY are the enemy of freedom.

Quoting Wayne Perryman, an inner city minister in Seattle and the author of Unfounded Loyalty, "Most people are either a Democrat by design, or a Democrat by deception." That is, there are the Kennedys, the Dodds, the Pelosis who know the Democratic party is completely wrong and even evil. But they are democrats so they can accumulate wealth and power. And then there are the Sheehans, whose bovine intelligence sees no problem with being herded lik cattle, because they are unable to think for themselves.

And then, there's Howard Dean, who's just plain nuts.

I got this story before MM because I took it directly off the wires at work. Whenever I don't have a link to the original sources, that's usually what happened.