I know it does in my house, but I wasn’t aware that it was a worldwide phenomenon. Seriously, though, step back for a minute and think about this: in modern, moderate Malaysia, the Malaysian Islamic Development Department, which distributes official Friday sermon texts to the nation’s mosques, is not railing against jihad terrorism, which is supposed to be a twisting and hijacking of Islam’s true, peaceful teachings, but against Valentine’s Day. Apparently giving your beloved flowers and candy is worse than strapping on a bomb and blowing yourself up in a crowd of Infidels.
“Valentine’s Day ‘a threat to Muslim values,'” from AFP, February 14:
Malaysian authorities have said Valentine’s Day is a threat to Muslim values in their annual swipe at the February 14 occasion, which was marked with a mass wedding involving 138 couples.
Social ceremonies such as this are a stepping-stone towards greater social ills such as fraud, mental disorder caused by alcohol, abortion and baby-dumping.
In its official Friday sermon text distributed to mosques in the Muslim-majority country, the Malaysian Islamic Development Department blamed Valentine’s Day for everything from alcoholism to abortion.
“Social ceremonies such as this are a stepping-stone towards greater social ills such as fraud, mental disorder caused by alcohol, abortion and baby-dumping, and other negative ills that can invite disaster and moral decay among youths,” it said.
Known by its Malay-language acronym JAKIM, the department is an official watchdog of Muslim values. It regularly denounces Valentine’s Day as encouraging vice and promiscuity.
More than 60 percent of Malaysia’s 28 million people are Muslim ethnic Malays.
However, members of the large Chinese minority celebrated the day with a mass wedding of 138 couples.
The lovers tied the knot at the Thean Hou temple in the capital Kuala Lumpur, releasing scores of red, heart-shaped balloons after the ceremony.
Another 70 couples were to wed in the afternoon in individual ceremonies, an official at the Confucian temple told the Agence-France Press news agency.
“We’re doing it specially for this year as only once in 19 years does Valentine’s Day coincide with Chap Goh Mei,” the official said.
‘Close proximity’ crime
Chap Goh Mei is the term used in Malaysia for the annual Chinese Lantern Festival.
The temple has staged mass weddings before on dates deemed auspicious. More than 500 couples wed at the temple on September 9, 2009.
The number 9 in Chinese is a homophone for a word meaning “forever”. The date was seen to signify long-lasting unions.
Muslim conservatives in multi-faith Malaysia have become increasingly outspoken in recent years against perceived threats to Islamic values, challenging the country’s moderate Muslim image.
In 2011, authorities arrested nearly 100 Muslims in a crackdown on Valentine’s Day.
They were detained for “khalwat”, or “close proximity”, the crime of being alone with a member of the opposite sex other than one’s spouse or close relative.
It can bring up to two years in jail upon conviction in Islamic law courts that handle religious and moral offences by Muslims.
Concerts by a number of major Western musical artists have also been scrapped over the years after Muslims complained they could encourage immoral behaviour.
Muslim authorities in the central state of Selangor this week launched a campaign to distribute thousands of leaflets to youths warning against celebrating Valentine’s Day, reports said.
Libra55 says
They have no perception of the finer things in life do they ! Of romance or that horrible”L” word…LOVE ! Everything has to have some sordid connotation attached to it. Must be really depressing in a muslim country. But then, we knew that.
Champ says
True; they hate the word LOVE …another word they hate: FREEDOM! …oh but they do love to hate non-muslims, but that’s the extent of their so-called *love*.
Naruq says
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!
Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia
in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many
countries, improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods
of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the
Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and
refinement, the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan
law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as
a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slave
– Churchill
Naruq says
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The fact that in Mohammedan
law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as
a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the
faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Champ says
Valentine’s Day is a keeper, it’s islam that needs to go bye-bye …
Say NO to islame!
dumbledoresarmy says
While the hate-crazed party-pooper Muslims rage, rant and throw tantrums, the Chinese infidels, like non-Muslims everywhere else, are quick to embrace fun, love and happiness:
“..members of the large Chinese minority celebrated the day with a mass wedding of 138 couples.
“The lovers tied the knot at the Thean Hou temple in the capital Kuala Lumpur, releasing scores of red, heart-shaped balloons after the ceremony.
“Another 70 couples were to wed in the afternoon in individual ceremonies, an official at the Confucian temple told the Agence-France Press news agency.
“We’re doing it specially for this year as only once in 19 years does Valentine’s Day coincide with Chap Goh Mei,” the official said.”
*That* is why Chinese non-Muslims from Malaysia are more than welcome to leave Malaysia and come live in Australia…it’s plain to see that they will fit right in.
gravenimage says
Malaysian Islamic Development Department: Valentine’s Day leads to “alcohol, abortion and baby-dumping”
I know it does in my house, but I wasn’t aware that it was a worldwide phenomenon…
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It’s good to be able to keep a sense of humor in the face of this Islamic insanity, but what ugliness.
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Apparently giving your beloved flowers and candy is worse than strapping on a bomb and blowing yourself up in a crowd of Infidels.
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*These* are Islamic values. *Ugh*.
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Social ceremonies such as this are a stepping-stone towards greater social ills such as fraud, mental disorder caused by alcohol, abortion and baby-dumping.
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Who knew that exchanging heart-shaped cards was a “gateway drug”? sarc/off
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Known by its Malay-language acronym JAKIM, the department is an official watchdog of Muslim values.
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Note, too, that those Muslim values include pedophilia, forced marriage, wife beating, polygamy, “Honor Killing”, and sex slavery. None of these horrors represent moral decay as pious Muslims see it.
But expressing love or even affection and friendship? Now *that’s* “moral decay”.
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However, members of the large Chinese minority celebrated the day with a mass wedding of 138 couples.
The lovers tied the knot at the Thean Hou temple in the capital Kuala Lumpur, releasing scores of red, heart-shaped balloons after the ceremony.
Another 70 couples were to wed in the afternoon in individual ceremonies, an official at the Confucian temple told the Agence-France Press news agency.
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Sweet—I wish all the couples well! But how much longer will civilized Infidels be able to practice such expressions of love openly in fast Islamizing Malaysia?
Realron says
A good friend of mine is there now visiting her family. She is all about love, but she is a non-Muslim. I pray for her safe return.