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Southeast Asia
Orphanage plan angers Muslims
2005-01-08
On the other hand, everything angers Moose limbs...
A HIGH profile Australian charity headed by a Catholic priest today backed away from plans to set up an orphanage in tsunami-shattered Aceh after the plan enraged hardline Muslim groups. Youth Off The Streets founder Father Chris Riley arrived in the provincial capital Banda Aceh last night with plans to set up a tent orphanage to house some of the estimated 35,000 Acehnese children with dead or missing parents. The plan was backed with a $100,000 donation from NSW clubs and media mogul Kerry Packer's Channel 9 funded Riley's trip.

But after the chief of the radical Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), Hilmy Bakar Almascaty warned Youth off the Streets to stick purely to humanitarian work, Father Riley said the orphanage plan had only ever been a last resort. If there were too many sensitivities involved, he was happy to drop the plan or funnel support into an Indonesian organisation, he said. "Youth off the Streets has no religious basis at all," he said. "It is Christian I guess, but we've got Muslims in our services in Sydney. There is never any conflict there. I'm not going to force myself into a community like this and if they've got things in hand, so be it. We are going to look. If it means we look elsewhere or go back to Australia, I don't have any problem with that at all. It's predominantly Muslim so you accept that. We're not going to fight that."

The issue is sensitive in Aceh, which is the only Indonesian province to have fully implemented Islamic sharia law and said to be the veranda of the holy city Mecca. Radical and mainstream Muslim organisations have warned against encroachment by other religions in the province and the Indonesian government last week barred orphan children from leaving the region to preserve Aceh's culture and future.
Posted by:tipper

#12  #4:
Is there ANYTHING that doesnt anger Muslims?
Yes. Killing non-moslems makes them very happy.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2005-01-08 1:40:58 PM  

#11  Don't the filthy pig-dog kafirs see that it is the will of Allah that these children be orphaned? Do they not realize that it is the exclusive provenance of Allah to care, or not care for orphans? Fight not the will of Allah...

*blink.* Sorry, I've been trolling for Islamic moderates elsewhere.. that just kind of slipped out. But I believe it's fairly accurate.

Note, and I can't remember which thread it came up on earlier, but Sharia is in effect in Banda Aceh
Posted by: Asedwich   2005-01-08 12:32:48 PM  

#10  Interesting, if depressing take on the legal issue of orphans LL.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-01-08 11:41:13 AM  

#9  my suprise-o-meter must be broke , it didnt even flinch when i read this .
Posted by: MacNails   2005-01-08 10:12:30 AM  

#8  On a semi-serious note, anyone familiar with how sharia determines property ownership and rights of inheritance knows that pretty much all of Aceh is up for grabs--no one survives to sell, inherit or execute estates. Bargains will be arranged between the resort corporations and the corrupt Indonesian government, and maybe Aceh will become the next great "undeveloped" tourist location.

As for the orphans, there's lots of Islamic rhetoric about taking care of orphans, but the reality is that adopted children lack the legal standing of their natural-born siblings, a sore thorn when it comes to dividing estates. These orphans not only have nothing now, but they have no claim to anything, ever, under sharia. The West needs to be aggressive in protecting their rights, in protecting their legal claims to properties (if any can ever be determined), and in making sure they are properly cared for and schooled. If not, I can guarantee you that they will be warehoused in Saudi-funded madrassas until they're old enough to breed or become cannon fodder, which is only a decade from now. And that's exactly what the "Islamic Defender's Front," an organization that didn't exist till someone telephoned a news reporter with the threat, wants.
Posted by: longtime lurker   2005-01-08 9:19:59 AM  

#7   said to be the veranda of the holy city Mecca.

Mecca, 1 veranda, 1000 septic tanks.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-01-08 7:56:17 AM  

#6  Sad, very sad.
Posted by: 2b   2005-01-08 7:40:48 AM  

#5  Actually I don't give a shit what these moose limbs think. When it comes to kids they have to put up, shut up or get out of the way. The Indonesian goverment is clearly able to tell them to do it too. Isn't the Islamic Defenders Front in line for some good old down home governmental repression? It hard to talk with a gun in your mouth and it's hard to get heard when your ass is in jail. Time for a hot steaming cup of STFU.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2005-01-08 6:57:28 AM  

#4  Is there ANYTHING that doesnt anger Muslims?
Posted by: Glereper Craviter7929   2005-01-08 6:48:10 AM  

#3  Better dead than kuff'r?
Posted by: gromgorru   2005-01-08 5:10:25 AM  

#2  One has to ask, "Is there anything that doesn't 'anger' Muslims - even when they can't handle the job or are still trying to get it out of their pants?"

RopMA.
Posted by: .com   2005-01-08 1:23:04 AM  

#1  Don't want to piss off the Islamo fascists, it's feeding time in the shark pool.
Posted by: Captain America   2005-01-08 1:10:25 AM  

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