No respect for Miss Universe in Indonesia Riyo Mori, the Japanese woman who was crowned Miss Universe 2007, received a chilly reception from Muslims when she arrived in the West Java provincial capital of Bandung for charity activity as part of her duties as Miss Universe. The protesters carried posters saying, “Miss Universe, Go to Hell!” and “Free Indonesia from Pornography!”Syaiful Abdullah, chairman of the Bandung branch of the hard-line Muslim organization Islamic Defenders’ Front, said beauty should not been exploited because that would be “immoral and sinful.” In 1990s, Indonesia, a predominantly Muslim nation, banned women from participating in a Miss Universe pageant on grounds that the pageant’s swimsuit contest is not in line with Islamic values. Despite the ban, the Miss Indonesia organizing committee has been sending the country’s beauty queens to the pageant since 2005 without being punished by the government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
lmao, so much porn comes out of indonesia, and they have so many problems with the sex trade. they should be campaigning against the government to fix those problems, rather then protesting a 'miss universe'.
The country itself is just messed up with its values and belief system. It is not in unity. They have no right to protest!
i agree. The indos always think what they do is right and thus i hate them for it. for crying out loud, miss universe is helpin out indo and they indos hate her for it. wtf
what's that guy talking about exploiting beauty? how about celebrating the beauty? talk about half empty glass guy. maybe when Miss Indonesia wins the contest, then they will say celebrating instead of exploiting.
damn muslim is seriously still a sexist religion, see lots of people who has to cover their hair if they are a girl.......... but still damn Indonesia, it's not like they don't like to have sex with woman or see them naked, all men want to do that, they are pretty much hypocrites for protesting...
I don't think it's a good idea for protestants. Miss Universe is not porno at all. If you saves yourselves in swimming suit, that would be okay.
Miss universe have a typical occidental type so asian peoples don't like it. She is not traditionnal.
It's not the Indonesians muslims that are the extremists it's the Islamic muslims that are ALL extremists their bloody islamic government banned cinemas because they said that films weren't islamic look at how they reacted with that teacher and the teddy bear
I guess its quite silly to for them to protest but dun u think its a sensitive issue to debate about religion here?
