MISS INDONESIA facing JAIL TERM for wearing swimsuit (INDECENT!)

[Bluebear]

What is this, top-the-other-world-religions-with-something-bizarre-or-deadly-of-your-own week??



Facing jail: Nadine Chandrawinata.


A MILITANT Islamic group has filed a police report against Indonesia's Miss Universe candidate, accusing her of indecency. Nadine Chandrawinata's participation in the contest and display of her body in a swimsuit "is actually insulting for Indonesian dignity and women", Islamic Defenders Front lawyer Sugito said yesterday.

Ms Chandrawinata did not make it to the competition's final in Los Angeles on Sunday, which was won by Miss Puerto Rico, but she had drawn heavy media coverage in Indonesia.

Mr Sugito said the Islamic Defenders Front had also filed complaints against four people involved in sponsoring and organising Ms Chandrawinata's participation. Under Indonesian law, police would have to investigate whether there was sufficient evidence for a case under the complaint, and if so, turn their findings over to prosecutors for a decision on whether it merited going to court.

The offences carried potential sentences ranging from two to six years in jail, Mr Sugito said. The posing requirements of the competition offended the standards not just of Islam but of other religions, he said.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/07/25/1153816182446.html

[SalmonChantedEvening]

1. Islam LeHaye Away!

Or Flip Benham, or any number of RR fundies could have written this.

Disgusting :puke:

[Richard Steele]

9. Beautifully phrased. Your header says it ALL; I have nothing to add. nm

[panader0]

2. Looks very decent to me. What do Indonesians swim in?

[msongs]

3. give her a burka and a suicide bomb eh? nt

[tanyev]

4. Bet they videotaped all of it.

So they could watch it over and over again and keep their "righteous anger" fired up.

[Bluebear]

7. Oh you know it! nt

[Selatius]

5. Social authoritarianism is what these people preach

They do not give you a choice. They do not allow you to think for yourself what is right. Instead, they force their views upon you in clear violation of your inalienable rights.

[Imajika]

11. Islamists are slowly gaining power...

...in Indonesia. Same thing is true in Malaysia and Southern Thailand. Lots of Gulf oil money (particularly Saudi) pouring in funding fundamentalist clerics at religious schools.

I've witnessed what Islamic radicals are doing in Southern Thailand. Once you see the terror and backwardness these people represent, it becomes very difficult not to detest them. I suppose it is one of the reasons I am so sympathetic with Israel when it comes to them squaring off against Hamas and Hizbullah.

[acmejack]

18. That's a shame, Thailand used to be such a fun place.

The people were cool. I had seen that there was a growing Islamic presence there, and of course there has always been an activist group in the Southern Philippines.

[Imajika]

19. Thailand is still a great place...

It is my second home actually. It is the 3 Muslim dominated provinces in the south that have become a nightmare. Islamist ideology has taken hold in the South, resulting in the slaughter (and frequent beheading) of Monks, school teachers, police officers, vendors - pretty much anyone unIslamic. And all this Islamic violence has not one thing to do with Israel or the US either. Thai intelligence and police have broken up many attempts by Islamic terrorists to bomb tourist areas throughout the country ala Bali. The Thai's try to hide this because they depend on their tourism industry - but eventually these Islamic fanatics will wind up succeeding and detonating a bomb in a crowded tourist area.

The real sad thing is that it is all that oil money in the Gulf that is going to fund the Islamists in Thailand and elsewhere. The Gulf states such as Saudi Arabia support, with all the money they make selling oil to us, radical clerics and religious schools throughout Asia. That is how this stuff really got going.

Still, so long as you stay away from the southern most provinces, Thailand is still a very safe, very wonderful place to visit, work or live.

[laura888]

21. Gaining power because people are desparate.

What do you think, its some type of virus like communism?

Watch the movie, Syriana.

[Imajika]

22. Nonsense...

Islamists are not gaining power in South East Asia because the people are suddenly "desperate", nor does it have anything to do with oil, Israel or the US.

Though I have not yet had a chance to Syriana, I'd guess it has absolute squat to do with what is happening in South East Asia.

[CuteNFuzzy]

6. it's a wardrobe malfunction

The cape wasn't supposed to come off

[AlamoDemoc]

8. ....also

'Sex' star covers up on billboard after ultra-Orthodox protest

By Ayala Tsoref, Haaretz Correspondent


In the first days of the ad campaign for Unilever's Lux soaps, Jessica Parker - who in her enormous TV hit set fashion standards for women worldwide - appeared in a sequined dress, bare shouldered and with knees clearly on view in keeping with her television character.

But within 24 hours of the billboard's unveiling, Unilever was contacted by one of Israel's senior rabbis with a threat that if the offending image was not removed, then the ultra-Orthodox community would receive orders to boycott the company's products. In addition to marketing Lux and Dove soaps and other toiletries and cleaning products, Unilever's local offerings include Telma foods, breakfast cereals, mayonnaise, and Vered Hagalil chocolates.

The posters were removed - market analysts estimate at a cost hundreds of thousands of shekels - and Jessica Parker found herself redressed, with a longer skirt and covered shoulders. As Unilever succinctly explained: "We dressed Sarah Jessica Parker for the winter."


on edit: ooops! I forgot to list the link:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=505337&contrassID=13

[rockymountaindem]

14. Anybody is entitled to threaten an economic boycott

You don't have to spend your money on anything you don't want to. Filing a police report and attempting to suppress people with jail threats is a different thing altogether.

[AlamoDemoc]

15. I was simply pointing out the fanatics on both sides....

.....please, don't be so overwhelmed by it.

[Lexingtonian]

10. She can come stay over my place....

I've always got a bed couch she can stay in on.

Free, of course :D

[Imajika]

13. Heh, that's good...

Actually, Indonesia is home to many, many beautiful women.

[1620rock]

12. More nonsense from the religiously insane of this world. n/t

[fujiyama]

16. Nadine Chandtrawinata

doesn't sound like a particularly Muslim name anyways, not that it should matter - these psychotic religious fuckers should stop imposing their values on everyone else.

BTW, is she from Bali? It's much more liberal than the rest of Indonesia, where Islamists are gaining power, and her last name sounds somewhat Hindu.

[Johnyawl]

20. According to Wikipedia, Her father's Javanese, mother is German

She was born in Germany, but moved back to Indonesia when she was 3, and was raised in Jakarta. Doesn't say what her religion is. She says her personal hero is Mother Theresa. <shrug>

If she needs a place to stay, I'd be happy to put her up, protect her from fanatics, and help her with her english. :evilgrin:

okay, so I'm a dirty old man. sue me.

[demosincebirth]

17. Maybe she should have worn a Burka

[Ron Green]

23. She has the correct corportate look.

The free-market standard of beauty.