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PostPosted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:08 pm 
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Indonesia Muslim hardliners attack Playboy building

About 300 hardline Indonesian Muslims vandalized a building housing the office of Playboy magazine on Wednesday in a protest against its publication in the world's most populous Muslim nation.

Clad in white shirts and skull caps the protesters threw rocks at the front lobby, breaking the windows of the building in the south of Jakarta several days after the magazine hit news-stands for the first time.

Shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest), the protesters also ripped apart several copies of the Indonesian Playboy, which unlike the U.S. original does not show any nudity.

Despite being a much tamer version, the magazine sold out very quickly, partly thanks to controversy surrounding its publication and protests from some Muslim groups.

Apart from Playboy, Indonesia already had its own versions of men's magazines Maxim and FHM, as well as homegrown publications, which feature color pictures of women in minimal clothing.

Members of the hardline Muslim group that organized the demonstration, the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), are known for taking laws into their own hands, for example by attacking bars selling alcohol during the Muslim fasting period, and massage parlors.

Dozens of police were on the scene when the militants carried out the attack but did not make any arrests.

South Jakarta police chief Wiliardi Wizard told Reuters he would question the leader of the group in relation to the incident and detain the perpetrators.

"If they can hand over the perpetrators then that's good. Otherwise we'll have to hunt them," he said.

(with additional reporting by Telly Nathalia)




Sexual frustration much???


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corduroy11 wrote:
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Indonesia Muslim hardliners attack Playboy building


the Indonesian Playboy, which unlike the U.S. original does not show any nudity.



That's what protest should really be about. Clothes in playboy, that's a damn shame.


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 Post subject: Re: Indonesia Muslim hardliners attack Playboy building
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corduroy11 wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060412/wl_nm/indonesia_playboy_dc

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Indonesia Muslim hardliners attack Playboy building


the Indonesian Playboy, which unlike the U.S. original does not show any nudity.



That's what protest should really be about. Clothes in playboy, that's a damn shame.


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The real question is: Is Playboy seriously desperate enough for people to buy the mag that they actually need a clothed/Muslim version?? Why bother?


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vegman wrote:
The real question is: Is Playboy seriously desperate enough for people to buy the mag that they actually need a clothed/Muslim version?? Why bother?


If McDonalds is willing to sell lamb burgers to capture the Indian market, why shouldn't the fine folks at Playboy diversify?

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I wasn't aware there was an avid Muslim porn market. :|


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godeatgod wrote:
I wasn't aware there was an avid Muslim porn market. :|
Perhaps Indonesia practices "Islam Lite"? After all, any self respecting Arab extremist would blow up the offices rather than pansily throw stones at it. :P


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godeatgod wrote:
I wasn't aware there was an avid Muslim porn market. :|


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