"Strong drinks and games of chance and idols and divining of arrows are only an infamy of Satan's handiwork."
Shocking news just in from the Jakarta Globe. Powerful Islamic parties, who control a third of the seats in Indonesia’s House of Representatives, want to ban the sale, production, distribution and consumption of any beverage containing alcohol.
Indonesia, of course, has become a repository for the some of the world’s keenest drinkers, the tropical heat and endless open-air bars, particularly in Bali, making the consumption of booze an all-day ritual.
Roughly one third of Bali’s tourists come from Australia, who also enjoy its conduciveness to street-fighting, silly pranks and so on.
Indonesia is also the world’s biggest Muslim nation, home to thirteen percent of its almost two billion Muhammadans and booze, ooowee, it haraam.
Muhammad, y’see, said alcohol’s potential for sin outweighed its medicinal value, something I think is very easy to agree with.
Peel open your Qur’an to Surah Al-Maidah where Allah says:
“O ye who believe ! Strong drinks and games of chance and idols and divining of arrows are only an infamy of Satan’s handiwork. Leave it aside in order that ye may succeed. Satan seeketh only to cast among you enmity and hatred by means of strong drink and games of chance, and turn you from remembrance of Allah and from (His) worship. So will ye not then abstain?”
Al-Qur’an 5:90-91
Who hasn’t lost a telephone to a cross-dressing pixie while boozed in Bali or tried to annihilate a wall of night-club bouncers, confidence inflated by arak-based cocktails?
Bit of push-back from bar owners and politicians in Bali, that little Hindu enclave east of Jakarta, as you can imagine.
The head of Bali’s regional legislative council, AA Ngurah Adi Ardhana, said the proposal was “shallow and a piece of Islamic self-interest” and that it is “too superficial; Bali will definitely reject it. We are a unitary state built on diversity, and the potential economic impact involved is unacceptable.”
Bintang sucks any way
Fuck radical Islam and Right Wing Christianity both. Fuck them. Bitches wanna tell people how to live.
Edit: I said “Radical Islam” and “Right Wing Christianity.” Not the good ones. Just the human shit hiding behind their savior/prophet of choice.
Another islamist apologist
Lord help me!!
I’m surrounded by pedo advocates
First went in 78 and then a few trips in the 90s , never want to go back , cant blame them for wanting to shut down the boozers , fark could you imagine what its like trying to raise a family in that freaking zoo now days , poor cunts i feel so much empathy for them tourism has totally fucked the place over.
Surely that fuquit had had more than a few Bintangs. Why the hell would you act like that? Seriously?!?
Without booze how is that quick cover up you got at Ulus going to turn into a 10 second stand up pit?
they will need one hell of a big jet ski.
As someone who’s had to quit the demon drink, and will never get an opportunity to go to Bali, I will selfishly say that I frankly don’t give a damn, my dear.
I have never visited the island of the Gods but do remember quite clearly hearing stories , that in the early days around 1975 , that everyone was so wacked on Magic Mushrooms that no one gave a shit about having drink …. could have stayed at home and went to the pub for that ?
Right up until this post, I had you pegged as a goofy, but I can clearly see now your feet align with the dark side. And also explains your affinity with Queensland points. Good luck to your evil Blues tonight. Hopefully they will need it!
Love lefts , hate motorcycles …. not really just can’t ride em and thought it would be best to avoid an early death so avoided them … and Bali .
May your evil Maroons make you proud and not crumple but not win either .
I’m all in on lefts. Not as much as one bloke up here. In the 8 years we have been back, and surfing with him pretty close to 200 days a year, he is still yet to crack 10 right handers that I have witnessed. (It’s actually 6).
I’m ambivalent about motorcycles, maybe because I sit on one for 5-6 hours a day. Anything bigger than about 400cc, and post-2000 scares the shit out of me. Too many getting scraped off the roads around here to induce anything more than healthy respect for that amount of power. One last week missed seeing a roundabout on the motorway and hit it doing about 120km/h. If the accident hadn’t been witnessed, he wouldn’t have been found for weeks. (Big roundabout with trees/bush in the middle that he launched into).
I missed all but the last 5 minutes of the game. We had a son performing in a school music ‘showcase’ last night. Now, I can hear 99% of people reading this going “Sheit, that sounds like a bad deal missing out on SoO for a school music performance”, but that ain’t the case. The (state high) school has an extremely high achieving music program. And even though we have been to at least 8 previously, (they run over two nights), this was easily the best yet. Wouldn’t have missed it for the world.
Great Work Son of Lemon …..
This one is for him and the Maroons
https://youtu.be/MpMwMDqOprc
Showing my age a bit, but they kicked off a suburb over from where I grew up. Was getting driven home from a teenage sporting event one night by an older brother of a team mate who went to Corinda High. He stopped in to a community hall to watch The Saints practice. Was memorable for having a sneaky beer from the band esky as a 15yr old, and the drummer and bass player almost coming to blows.
any years later a chat with Ed Kuepper confirmed they did practice at that hall on the reg, and that conflict between drummers and bassists was not uncommon.
Congrats on the win … I am always a sucker for a team they say can’t win .
Well, thank you for your graciousness in the face of a gritty loss. A formerly presidential quality to be sure.
Yep, while I’m no teetotaller, I drink less on Bali than at home. Have had several Sumbawa trips where I didn’t drink any alcohol for a month. Just don’t really feel like it in the heat.
Heaviest ever bender was a magic mushroom extravaganza in ’88.
I’ve been once
Surfed Canguu the whole time.
Was 2000 and not crowded and never had so many sand barrels.
Drank one beer at the Sari club and one at paddies, that’s it.
Incredible news! I hope it goes through. Where will all the Russian VALs flock to if they can’t drink in Bali? Maybe it’s time to buy some land south of Arugam Bay?
East (and south) coast Lanka is already lousy with Russian surf camps. Beautiful country to visit, (mostly) terrible to surf.
Spent a month around Arugam Bay. Just before the invasion of Russian surf camps I guess. Was more concerned about Israeli surf camps to be honest. But I reckon the locals wouldn’t put up with them for too long. Saw a fair bit of conflict in that short time. Guy trying to stab another bloke. Israelis getting the shit kicked out of them. Much like Bali, things were always on a bit of an edge if you looked a bit harder than the superficial.
Enjoyed the festivals though!
Oh yeah the Israelis too of course. I just mentioned the Russians because a guy we stayed with on the south coast said they’ve been taking over recently. Groups of 20 beginners on soft tops rolling up to previously semi-secret points. It’s just not sustainable. Festivals and food were great. I’m sure if I put more time in I’d have had some better sessions too.
a reset to a one world economy?????
No mate, a fairer one. But you stick to your guns.
I’m with Allah on the divining of arrows – a shocking activity!
But imagine all the surfing you would get done.
Send Bexy and Nik Dee there to clear things up.
I’m cool with the no alcohol.
Makes good people turn fukwit.
It would certainly make for a cheaper holiday.
And you won’t need a bacon and egg roll for the hangover.
Another Islamic nono.
Perhaps not – alcohol subsidizes a lot of other parts of the hospitality and tourism trades. It’s easy to find cheap accommodation or food when business owners know they can sell plenty of booze (which carry a high profit margin). Once all the booze money is gone, the price of everything else will go up. So there’s every chance you’ll pay more for a dry holiday that a wet one.
Oh yeah. Of all the good drugs, they legalized the shittest.
as long as cross dressing pixies don’t end up in the dragnet.
And in CA, we have Governor Newsance kicking around the idea of a curfew, citing “studies” from Saudi Arabia because of science or something. We’ve tumbled a long way since Chas got cited for singing a sad salad ballad perched unlawfully too close to a good view.
It’s been a hell of a year eh.
Let’s pile in on Islam!
I’ll go first.
Fuk you Islam, stop treating women like pets and stop the sanctioned rooting of kids, they make Christianity seem almost christ-like.
Truly a Son of the Left Hand.
Is that good?
To be fair Bexy, most organized religions do these things. Not to mention the entertainment industry.
But while we on Muslims, did you hear the nasty rumour insta models can get some dirty work with good pay in Dubai?
But Noone wants to live in a Muslim country. Even Muslims are bailing
There has to be a reason.
Yeah, not sure I’d be too keen.
People defend these cunts.
Don’t be a cunt WP.
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I don’t think he was defending them. Just pointing out that – sadly – this sort of behaviour exists everywhere. Just because the perpetrators are part of a certain group does not make that whole group implicit. Just because the Amish, or Catholic Priests, like to abuse kids, does not mean that is a part of Christianity. These are merely outliers or extremists.
Similarly the Taliban speak no more for the majority of Muslims than the Klu Klux Klan or Nazis do for Christians when it comes to ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Jesexu christ!
These people are celebrating the wedding of a 13 Yr old to a 48 Yr old who already has 3 other slaves, and you can’t see the difference?
This is not the taliban
This is life for hundreds of thousands of Muslim kids
This is Sharia law.
They think it’s cool.
It’s not a Fringe thing.
This is happening in major capitol cities every week
What does it take to get people to fire up against this scum?
Who exactly is defending barbaric islamic-sanctioned child marriages/rapes? (Other than supporters of the same practice within all the other stupid religions, of course)
As far as I can tell we’re all united in our disgust.
But I’m not on top of all the latest news about that lefty bogeyman you keep going on about and his secret pizza peodophile syndicate, so maybe I’ve missed something.
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I’m hearing you loud and clear
The Q website host dude (teknical talk) was busted recently for hosting lots of child porn and selling it.
Does your comment come with a wink emoji?
Poe’s law?
I did a quick search and couldn’t find any articles to confirm…
Well, to be fair, ‘Q’ posted on a 4-chan and 8-chan, which were effectively child porn distribution sites. I mean, if I was a top level government insider working behind the scenes fighting systemic child abuse, where else would I post my increasingly cryptic messages, that are consistently proven wrong, than a child porn distribution distribution site?
Would upvote, but that’s horrific.
I would never defend children being abused. Just saying, all Religions are guilty in some respect. Islam hasn’t had it’s great awakening and reformed this heinous shit yet. Not being cunty.
Your good mate.
Of course I know other religions aren’t perfect
But islam is next level fuked up but lefties defend them strongly.
Why do they back them?
It’s a sick mystery.
2 billion eh?? my kids are fucked, they are all X chromosomes…
And just like that, another Gov. creates criminal enterprise. Merry Go Round, and Round.
The criminal enterprise already distributes the alcohol in Indo. Bali’s Mafia controls the alcohol trade there – to the point that Corona couldn’t even import any product for their own event at Keramas. I wonder if the alcohol ban is actually an attempt to stamp out certain organised crime factions.
I think you could write Part 2 to this article. I would read it.