In Indonesia as well as in neighboring Malaysia, Islamic authorities are up in arms (so to speak!) against a great evil: the twisting and hijacking of their religion of peace by pseudo-Muslim criminals who claim that jihad has something to do with violence — no, wait…Scratch that. That doesn’t seem to upset them at all, oddly enough. They have instead reserved their ire for Valentine’s Day.
“Muslim organizations warn of ‘dark world’ of Valentine’s Day,” from The Jakarta Post, February 13:
There is not much love for Valentine’s Day this year as the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) in Dumai, Riau, and the Education, Youth and Sport Agency in Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara, have warned against celebrating the day of affection.
“An MUI judgment states that celebrating Valentine’s Day is against Islam,” head of the Dumai MUI Lukman Syarif told to Antara on Thursday.
According to an MUI judgment released in 2011, Valentine’s Day is suspected to imbue the youth with the dark world, wild festivities and lust driven celebrations. The organization’s biggest concern is that Feb. 14 brings with it careless drinking, free sex and drug usage, which violate Islamic norms and rules.
Meanwhile, the Mataram Education, Youth and Sport Agency released an appeal prohibiting students from any sort of Valentine’s Day celebrations in school.
“We issued schools with a restraining order approaching this year’s Valentine’s Day,” head of Mataram Education, Youth and Sport Agency H Ruslan Effendy, said on Sunday.
Ruslan explained that the ban aimed to ensure students in Mataram city did not lose touch of their Indonesian traditions and culture and that activities complied with Mataram’s vision: “Thrive forward, be religious and cultural”
In related news, dozens of Muslim activists from Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI), Kediri, East Java, protested against Valentine’s Day on Sunday.
“This tradition is not in our religion [Muslim], it’s part of a liberal culture,” protest coordinator Syaiful Umar said in Kediri.
The activists said Valentine’s Day advocated promiscuity, which lead to free sex. Syaiful mentioned that the issue was particularly relevant as 20 percent of students in Surabaya became pregnant out of wedlock.(bcw)
mortimer says
Here’s what the Koran says about love, hate and fear:
“While there are over 300 references in the Koran to Allah and fear, there are 49 references to love. Of these love references, 39 are negative such as the 14 negative references to love of money, power, other gods and status.
Three verses command humanity to love Allah and 2 verses are about how Allah loves a believer. There are 25 verses about how Allah does not love kafirs.
This leaves 5 verses about love. Of these 5, 3 are about loving kin or a Muslim brother. One verse commands a Muslim to give for the love of Allah. This leaves only one quasi-universal verse about love: give what you love to charity and even this is contaminated by dualism since Muslim charity only goes to other Muslims.
So much for love. Fear is what Allah demands.”
– (Bill Warner from symposium ‘A New Koran?’)
gravenimage says
More proof of what a loveless creed islam is. Thanks, Mortimer.
mortimer says
…My Jihad is to destroy the Golden Rule… 😉
“Love your neighbor as yourself.” (most religions)
“…those with (Mohammed) are VIOLENT against the Kafirs…but COMPASSIONATE (only) BETWEEN ONE ANOTHER.” – Koran 48:29
“Therefore lend not thou support in any way to those who reject Allah’s Message.” – Koran 28:86
‘Support’ includes wishing well to a disbeliever.
The teaching of universal love and kindliness to others is a danger to belief in Islam. Muslims see in sharp contrast the hatred at the core of Islam.
fair_dinkum says
seeing a pattern here..
there is fun in islam. they find it fun to hate.
to protest the innocuous so vehemently is hilarious, bizarre. and the height of feeling threatened.
prediction.. there will be a couple caught and lynched/ stoned for disobeying.
Habib Horny says
There is No love in Islam. Lust is the driving force to them to conqure the World.
gravenimage says
“Muslim organizations warn of ‘dark world’ of Valentine’s Day”
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Classmates innocently trading Valentine’s Day cards is “dark”, but the horror of Jihad and Shari’ah are fine. Got it.
Jim smith says
Indonesia is not loveless. Temporary marriage is legal there. Mashallah
Jim smith says
Indonesia is not loveless. Temporary marriage is legal there. It is common.