Sunday, December 24, 2006

Life Under Sharia Law

Is it any wonder that we call them Islamic fascists? This is what life is like living under the eye of the religious police:

Religious police in Indonesia have raided a dozen beauty salons and arrested 13 beauticians for failing to wear Islamic attire and two male customers for having their hair cut by women.

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Religious police in Indonesia have raided a dozen beauty salons and arrested 13 beauticians for failing to wear Islamic attire and two male customers for having their hair cut by women.

Bahagia Hadi, the chief of the Sharia - Islamic law - police force, said that raids on beauty salons would be intensified in the Indonesian province of Aceh as they were often found to be used for prostitution.

However, Aceh implemented a version of Sharia law in 2001 under a special autonomy package offered by the government to defuse years of sectarian conflict in Indonesia’s most northwesterly province.
When the government tries to appease these fascists the people suffer.