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Southeast Asia
Indonesia: Tsunami Charity Cash Aiding Shariah Savagery
2006-12-18
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Tsunami aid sent to an Indonesian province has freed government funds for the lashing of women for purported violations of Islamic law, a report said Sunday.
Because nothing's more important to Allan than keeping women in their place.
Militant Islamists in Indonesia's Aceh Province now impose Shariah law and pay moral vigilante forces to harass women and stage frequent public beatings, The Times of London reported.

More "Shariah police" than regular police are on the local government payroll, with many of them aggressive young men, the newspaper says.
All pious members of the Committee for the Protection of Virtue ...
International aid workers say the flow of foreign cash for reconstruction has allowed the government to spend scarce money to enforce such laws as the compulsory wearing of head scarves.

The vast majority of Indonesia's 220 million people opposes Shariah law and practices a more tolerant version of Islam. The country's secular constitution calls for spiritual harmony and voters have consistently rejected calls for an Islamic state.

The Aceh Province, on the northern tip of the island of Sumatra, is the closest point of land to Saoodi-controlled Arabia the epicenter of the massive 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake that triggered the deadly tsunami that killed more than 275,000 people worldwide.
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