Indonesia Muslim hardliners attack Playboy building

[sabra]

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-04-12T101001Z_01_JAK314548_RTRUKOC_0_UK-INDONESIA-PLAYBOY.xml&archived=False

Indonesia Muslim hardliners attack Playboy building

JAKARTA (Reuters) - About 300 hardline Indonesian Muslims vandalised a building housing the office of Playboy magazine on Wednesday in a protest against its publication in the world's most populous Muslim nation.

Clad in white shirts and skull caps the protesters threw rocks at the front lobby, breaking the windows of the building in the south of Jakarta several days after the magazine hit news-stands for the first time.

Shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest), the protesters also ripped apart several copies of the Indonesian Playboy, which unlike the U.S. original does not show any nudity.

Despite being a much tamer version, the magazine sold out very quickly, partly thanks to controversy surrounding its publication and protests from some Muslim groups.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

1. Fundamentalists = assholes

Muslim, Christian, Jewish - doesn't matter.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

2. Paging John Ashcroft.

White courtesy telephone, please.

[Strong Atheist]

3. Yet more tolerance from the "religion of peace". nt.

[Swede]

4. Hef having 3 twentysomething year old girlfriends creeps them out too.

nt

[freethought]

5. Oh well, one rule of marketing these days

"Controversy translates into sales". Just take a look at "Brokeback Mountain". I would be willing to bet there are plenty of Indonesians with a "stash". Personally, I think Playboy-Indonesia will "push-the-envelope" a little. However, if I were Larry Flint I would avoid looking for office space in Jakarta.

[mongo]

8. Yeah, I'm sure that business goes out of their way

to have their buildings vandalized by angry mobs to boost sales.

But I guess Playboy was "asking for it", in the same way that a woman walking down a dark alley in provacative clothing is.

[Tight_rope]

6. Now don't tell me that Playboy is trying to spread the Gospel of Freedom!

In Indonesian?....

[onehandle]

7. Indonesia already had men's magazines.

These attackers make just as much sense as our own right-wing fundies.

"Apart from Playboy, Indonesia already had its own versions of men's magazines Maxim and FHM, as well as homegrown publications, which feature colour pictures of women in minimal clothing."