Observations and inanities by a second-shift assistant supervisor in the Puppy-Grinding division of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy® (our motto: "Sure it's cruel, but think of the jobs!"), your host, Brent Rasmussen.
Equal opportunity.
Since (as you will quickly discover if you pay any attention to Ravin' Fundies who comment here or elsewhere) we atheists in the US are constantly accused of focusing our attention only on the Christian kooks, I thought I'd be an equal-opportunity heathen and see if I can stir up the Muslims a bit.
From this Reuters news item:
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A Malaysian state plans to recruit "spies" from the public to snoop on unmarried lovers and report them to Islamic religious authorities, a newspaper said Tuesday.
The Terengganu state government plans to enlist the part-time spies to look out for un-Islamic behavior, such as unmarried couples kissing or holding hands, the Star daily said.
"Some of these 'spies' could be waitresses or even janitors at hotels acting as auxiliary undercover agents for our religious department," the head of the state government's Islamic and welfare committee, Rosol Wahid, was quoted as saying.
Ah, welcome to the joys of Theocracy. Which, given how some folks on the Religious Right spew, is pretty much what they would like to do here. Oops, sorry - I wasn't supposed to say anything bad about our version of religious nuttery. OK, correct that: this news account is just one example of the horrors of the insanity of Islam and Sharia Law, and how it inevitably leads to a police state.
Jim Downey
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Malaysia isn't a fundamentalist state
It's not exactly a democratic heaven, but it's no Iran, either. It doesn't use the Shari'a law; the people walk around downtown Kuala Lumpur wearing the same clothes people wear in downtown Singapore, rather than those they wear in Basra.
Thanks.
OK, fair enough. I wasn't sure, so made an assumption on the basis of the the content of the news article. Because when a country starts making decisions to spy on their citizens on the basis of religious belief, it is an indication that theocracy has at least some hold.
Jim Downey
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Of Course
Of course they going to spy on unmarried couples, spying on married one would be boring.
So the kooks come in
So the kooks come in different flavors. What a surprise. It may not be long until we are all longing for the return of the cold war. In the mean time, give'm all hell!