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Hardcore Muslim Groups Denounce Valentine’s Day
February 13, 2012

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SwiftCurrent
4:16am Feb 15, 2012

All these radical groups, Hizbut Tahrir, Garis, FPI, FBR etc. should be banned including Dadun's group such as MUI.

What is MUI there for to all the people of Indonesia? This group also need to be banned since they are useless. the only things they do is reading koran and they don't know what is a V-Day in around the world except may be what Dadun thinks that V-Day (Valentine's Day) is only to have sex and even the worst he thinks that to have sex with unmarried men or women. This is ridiculous interpretation.

Jollygoon
10:32pm Feb 14, 2012

What is it with religion and sex? These religious hard liners are so sexually repressed and unsatisfied with their life that the only way they can get off is by imagining others committing lascivious deeds, condemning them and then day dreaming about these sinners being punished. Hard. Preferably with whips and gags.

Seriously, lighten up and go get some.


Kangkung
9:34pm Feb 14, 2012

FREE SEX HURTS OUR COUNTRY !!! Since Amrozi, Samudra, M Top, and colleagues can not wait to have an orgy in heaven with plenty of virgin beauties, they blew up other people so that they would be killed on duty and sped up the process to go to heaven.

You see now? even a promise of free sex can hurt our country.


blightyboy
7:43pm Feb 14, 2012

exbrit - But it does no harm and is completely innocent. Well at least it is in England.

When I was a lad Valentines day was about sending a card anonymously to someone you secretly liked - no more than that. It was kind of exciting.

In Indonesia it is kind of weird because everybody wishes everybody 'Happy Valentine' - My wife got a text from her sister doing just that.

But you know something, a bit of love is needed in this World and most certainly in Indonesia.

These protesting conservative Islamic freaks have got nothing better to do with their dark, sordid, and perverted little inconsequential lives but to piss on everybody's fun.

DrDez
7:33pm Feb 14, 2012

ExBrit

100% agree. 51 years here and I still pine whens shes not at home - even when we are separated by 15000 miles we find the time to skype a couple of times a day

The reality is its just another commercial day in most places - only idiots who fear everything openly object on religious grounds


For yet another year, Valentine’s Day is receiving little love from conservative Islamic groups across Indonesia, who contend the holiday goes against the religious values to which all Indonesians should adhere.

In Sukabumi, West Java, dozens of members of the local branch of Hizbut Tahrir, a pan-Islamic movement, rallied at the town square on Sunday to protest against celebrating Valentine’s Day.

Dadun Abdul Manaf, the group’s Sukabumi spokesman, said Valentine’s Day was un-Islamic and that the local administration should ban it.

He claimed the tradition gave unmarried couples an excuse to “engage in activities that violate morality” and “destroy the religious and national fabric,” such as premarital sex.

“Lots of people celebrate by having sex with a partner with whom they’re not married, and before that they have parties where they drink alcohol,” Dadun huffed.

He demanded the government discourage all forms of Valentine’s Day celebrations, including by launching a countercelebration in the form of a mass prayer recital on the same day.

The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) also spoke out against the holiday. In Lebak district, Banten, local MUI officials called on Muslims to not celebrate Valentine’s Day because it would “incite vice” and was a “foreign cultural influence.”

Baidjuri, the MUI Lebak secretary, called on parents not to allow their children to honor the tradition in any way.

“It’s better if people follow traditions that are in line with Islam and provided for in the Koran and the hadiths [words and deeds of the Prophet Muhammad],” he insisted.

“That’s why the MUI has issued a decree declaring the celebration of Valentine’s as haram [forbidden in Islam].”

In Palembang, the local MUI branch said it had also put out a decree against Valentine’s Day because it was “a tradition for Western people and incompatible with religious norms.”

Sodikun, the MUI Palembang head, said Muslims should engage in more meaningful activities, such as donating blood.

“That’s much more useful than doing things that are forbidden by religion,” he said.

In Pekanbaru, Riau, hundreds of high school students also got into the act with a rally on Friday, calling on their peers not to “fall for the Valentine’s con.”

“Besides going against Islamic teaching, it doesn’t comply with Eastern values or any of the values of the people of Pekanbaru,” rally coordinator Yogi Al-Giananda claimed.

“We hope that all the businesses such as shopping malls, hotels and restaurants do not offer any services to celebrate Valentine’s Day.”

Antara