NationStates Jolt Archive

it's another.

Remember back when some Christian fundies said that the tsunami disaster was God's punishment for their heathen ways?

Well...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2508262,00.html

Now it looks like the money sent to help with the reconstruction is helping the local Muslim fundies with more rigorous enforcement of sharia...

aka, beating people with a lash for "crimes"

Disaster donations help Islamic vigilante force impose punishments on women
WHEN people around the world sent millions of pounds to help the stricken Indonesian province of Aceh after the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004, few could have imagined that their money would end up subsidising the lashing of women in public.

But militant Islamists have since imposed sharia law in Aceh and have cornered Indonesian government funds to organise a moral vigilante force that harasses women and stages frequent displays of humiliation and state-sanctioned violence.

International aid workers and Indonesian women’s organisations are now expressing dismay that the flow of foreign cash for reconstruction has allowed the government to spend scarce money on a new bureaucracy and religious police to enforce puritan laws, such as the compulsory wearing of headscarves.

This is why you should only ever give money to secular charities. You cannot trust religious people to never be douchebags.

This is why you should only ever give money to secular charities. You cannot trust religious people to never be douchebags.

But militant Islamists have since imposed sharia law in Aceh and have cornered Indonesian government funds to organise a moral vigilante force that harasses women and stages frequent displays of humiliation and state-sanctioned violence. and this is what happens when you don't have a government strong enought to keep their Militant factions in line during a catastrophe.

But militant Islamists have since imposed sharia law in Aceh and have cornered Indonesian government funds to organise a moral vigilante force that harasses women and stages frequent displays of humiliation and state-sanctioned violence.
Sounds like the money came from the Government, not charities.

According to witnesses, male onlookers often roar in delight and hurl pious imprecations at the victims, working themselves up to a pitch of excitement.
sounds like those people are into alot of B&D and S&M down there... :p

"Remember... the safety word is "Banana"

I've always wondered what would happen if this sort of thing was done as a bait and switch tactic. Let the religious kooks all work themselves up to a fever pitch, then at that exact moment, turn the tables/reverse the roles. Naturally, the armed guards would have to be sufficiently trained to handle this situation.

And carry heavy automatic weapons.

Either they'll learn pretty quick how twisted they are, or they'll die. Either way, less stupid in the human gene pool.

Moral police of the fundamentalist stripe are typically wastes of oxygen anyway.