Tsunami was God's revenge for your wicked ways, women told
Religious wacko men are up to their old tricks, blaming women for everything that goes wrong in their lives. Outdated religions differ on many things, but when it comes to patriarchal values, they all blame Eve, and they are all a united bastion of a*holes. Hell, the misognyistic patriarchs don't treat each other very well either.
The Times, UK:
MARLUDDIN JALIL, a Sharia judge who has ordered the punishment of women for not wearing headscarves, was uncompromising: “The tsunami was because of the sins of the people of Aceh.”
Thundering into a microphone at a gathering of wives, he made clear where he felt the fault lay: “The Holy Koran says that if women are good, then a country is good.”
A Sharia police force modelled on Saudi moral enforcers enthusiastically seeks out female wrong doers for public humiliation.
The Wilayatul Hisbah, which loosely translates as “Control Team”, has arrested women, lopped off their hair, and paraded them in tears through the streets while broadcasting their sins over a megaphone.
More than 100 gamblers and drinkers — men and women — have been caned in public and some clerics are calling for thieves’ hands to be amputated.
The Islamic law introduced without popular enthusiasm in 2002 has been implemented rigorously since the tsunami, especially in towns such as Lhokseumawe, where Fatimah Syam, of Indonesian Women for Legal Justice, knows of 20 women who have fallen foul of it.
She said: “They seek out women without headscarves or unmarried girls meeting boys in private and parade them through the streets in an open car. I’ve seen the police laughing and boasting, and the girls in tears. The Sharia police say the tsunami happened because women ignored religion. We never heard of this parading before the tsunami.”
Funny, in America our natural disasters are now the fault of gays. We could call this religious tenet, When Times Get Rough, Kick a Woman or a Gay.
And, no, the recovery from the tusnami is not going well at all.
INDONESIA: ONE YEAR ON
18,149 permanent shelters built; 75,576 living in organised barracks; 67,504 in tent camps; 293,740 in host families.
A quarter of those in need expected to be in permanent housing by end of year
Almost 70 per cent of fishing boats destroyed rebuilt or being constructed
Hat tip to Raw Story
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