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Why are religious people are insane?
Islamic spies to snoop on lovers

Tue Feb 20, 8:16 AM ET

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A Malaysian state plans to recruit "spies" from the public to snoop on unmarried lovers and report them to Islamic religious authorities, a newspaper said Tuesday.
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The Terengganu state government plans to enlist the part-time spies to look out for un-Islamic behavior, such as unmarried couples kissing or holding hands, the Star daily said.

"Some of these 'spies' could be waitresses or even janitors at hotels acting as auxiliary undercover agents for our religious department," the head of the state government's Islamic and welfare committee, Rosol Wahid, was quoted as saying.

"Accurate details are required for the enforcement officers to act, otherwise they could be pouncing on married couples."

Last October, religious police in another part of this mainly Muslim country caused an outcry when they mistakenly raided the rented holiday apartment of a Christian American couple on suspicion that they were unmarried Muslims in "close proximity."
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That last paragraph sounds as if they would only target Islamic citizens...
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you mean why are islamic people are insane? are are?
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MrSnuggles

you mean why are islamic people are insane? are are?



These guys are Islamic?

Anyway, as I alluded to, despite how oppressive this sounds like, it seems as if Muslim Malaysians are the ones being targeted. If that's the case, I'd say it's little different from the sort of inter-organization enforcement that occurs within other religious groups.
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It's Malaysia. They banned Daredevil (the movie) for being too violent and having a shady secret society. There's no sanity there.
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These guys are Islamic?

Anyway, as I alluded to, despite how oppressive this sounds like, it seems as if Muslim Malaysians are the ones being targeted. If that's the case, I'd say it's little different from the sort of inter-organization enforcement that occurs within other religious groups.


uh, the example he used involved muslims, yet he decided to smear all religions. oh and i think theres quite a difference between a federal "religion police" and some loony website. pathetic, really.
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uh, the example he used involved muslims, yet he decided to smear all religions.



And I've provided an example of another religious group that are pretty nutty so I'd say it was a rather fair thing for him to say.

oh and i think theres quite a difference between a federal "religion police" and some loony website. pathetic, really.



There's quite a few people who make up such websites. Plus, there's people like you. I wouldn't mind finishing our is-the-US-"secular"-argument.
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MrSnuggles

uh, the example he used involved muslims, yet he decided to smear all religions.


It's not hard to come up with crazy stories about other religions.
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NerdWednesday, February 21st 2007.

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Meh. It's their culture, their rules. I don't see anything insane about it.
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This was never enforced under the completely Muslim ruled states after the time of the prophet, it's culture more than religion. In communities I've seen any obviously nonreligious people just wouldn't be invited to the dinners at the mosque.

In Islam everyone has a right to privacy and should know that they can't hide from God, this is wrong.
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I hate religion. No point to it.


I'm not religious myself, but there is a point to it. A lot of religious people would argue that morals stem from them. I'm not saying its true, but you'll find that a lot of people get defensive about religion when its so flippantly dismissed as 'useless'.
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It's Malaysia. They banned Daredevil (the movie) for being too violent and having a shady secret society. There's no sanity there.



Rofl, the United States should have come up with an "excuse" like that. That movie was god awful.

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I'm religious but i'm not insane.
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MrSnuggles

you mean why are islamic people are insane? are are?


How many times have you heard of an abortion doctor being killed by a religous nut?

I think George Carlin said it best: "The more devout somebody is, the more they see "thou shall not kill" as negotiable." look for his Ten commandments clip

There are crazy people in every religion that take things so far. You can pull up multiple examples like bin laden and Westboro. I am sorry I don't have examples of nutballs from all around the globe.
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Religious people aren't insane. Fundamentalists are. You know, like Bush...who believes I.D. is science.
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I'm religious but i'm not insane.



Are you so religious that you are against gay marriage, evolution or global warming. If you are then you are nuts and useless.
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MrSnuggles

you mean why are islamic people are insane? are are?


except the fact that christianity is like parallel to islam.

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Religious people aren't insane. Fundamentalists are. You know, like Bush...who believes I.D. is science.


Quite possibly true, but just how many people have you heard of killing in the name of palaeontology?
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thaddius

Quite possibly true, but just how many people have you heard of killing in the name of palaeontology?




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She's a fictional archaeologist, not paleontologist, but Reputation for effort.
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thaddius

Quite possibly true, but just how many people have you heard of killing in the name of palaeontology?



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Did you even do anything?
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This comes as no surprise to me. I read somewhere that a muslim has the right to beat his wife into submission if she so much as looks at him the wrong way. God forbid a man and woman be caught being lovers in that society. The woman is as good as dead.
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thaddius

She's a fictional archaeologist, not paleontologist, but Reputation for effort.



I could swear you said archaeology Frown
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dont worry xavius, i fixed it, and also showed off some of my friends knowledge.
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And I've provided an example of another religious group that are pretty nutty so I'd say it was a rather fair thing for him to say.


again, a religious "group" is different than a national government doing something like this.



There's quite a few people who make up such websites. Plus, there's people like you. I wouldn't mind finishing our is-the-US-"secular"-argument.


get a life.
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MrSnuggles

again, a religious "group" is different than a national government doing something like this.



Except, of course, the Malaysian national government isn't doing anything. Read the article, it only talks about one of Malaysia's states (out of thirteen). Furthermore, considering that the spies are going to be reporting to--and thus, I'd assume who's the actual authority on all of this--religious authorities (again, mentioned in the article), I'd say it might be incorrect to say that this is strictly government policy. And, again, as I already mentioned many times in this thread, considering how this is an Islamic authority targeting Muslims, it's not much else than intra-organization enforcement, like priests refusing to give communion to those they think unworthy or having them excommunicated and whatnot.

get a life.



Boy, you sure did prove my arguments wrong there.
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I could swear you said archaeology Frown


Indiana Jones was the reason I didn't say archaeology.
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Dont nitpick about lara - if theres some old thing in a cavern filled with SUPERNATURAL BEINGS you can be sure shell risk life and limb to get the old thing, be it bones or bricks, ignoring the idea of capturing a zombie or whatever it is just to get the artifact.

Oh, and didnt she fight a T-rex in the first game?
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