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| Give 'em an inch... Indonesian Islamists demand Rotary and Lions clubs banned |
| 2009-02-03 |
| INDONESIAN Islamic hardliners have called for a ban on international organisations the Rotary Club and the Lions Club, saying they are part of a Zionist conspiracy, reports said today. The People's Ulema Forum (FUU) said the clubs were "infidel" fronts for Freemasonry and the world Zionist movement and threatened Islam in the world's most populous Muslim country. "They gather funds and give them to America and the Israeli Zionists," FUU chairman Atian Ali Mohammad Da'i was quoted as saying in The Jakarta Globe daily. "We urge all Muslims to renounce membership in the Rotary Club and the Lions Club. Otherwise they can consider themselves infidels." Indonesian Muslims are overwhelmingly moderate but a vocal hardline fringe regularly succeeds in influencing policy-makers despite opposition from secularists, civil society groups and religious minorities. The FUU is an ultra-conservative group that has used force to stop Christian services and in 2002 issued a death fatwa (Islamic ruling) against a Muslim scholar who had criticised conservative Islam, the Globe reported. |
| Posted by:Whaviter Croter2702 |
| #5 The Lions Club is very popular with Sikhs because the common surname Singh means 'lion'. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2009-02-03 19:33 |
| #4 Maybe the names should be changed to Lions of Islam Club, and Robery. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2009-02-03 12:08 |
| #3 Rotary Club and the Lions Club, saying they are part of a Zionist conspiracy IIRC, the hamas charter makes the same contention, and goes along the notion that joooos (excuse me, "zionists") are behind the french revolution, free-masonry, etc, etc... something that seems to escape the progressives. Not that I like free-masons much, but there's been at least one direct terror attack in turkey against a local lodge (turkish free-masonry being IIRC rather present & a force behind turkish ideology of secularism, just as it is in france). |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2009-02-03 11:45 |
| #2 Everything right in this world, they want to bring down. |
| Posted by: Clineth Gonque1423 2009-02-03 08:40 |
| #1 And the SCOUTS = GIRL SCOUT COOKIES??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-02-03 00:25 |