MUI Wags the Dog’s Tail Once Again!

whoops. I wrote it all wrong LOL I meant “I certainly don’t mean”

Sorry folks. It’s not “mind” but “mean” (doh)

When I do Yoga, I always chant “Oww”,”Auch”,”aduh…” instead of “Om”…

I bet the council members never do Yoga before hehe…

I don’t think they have, Boy. Not with fat stomachs they can’t. Too fat and full of cholesterol everywhere, you see

LOL nice pic (even though I’m not sure if I get the original message from it)!

I’m non-smoker too, so if they can make our beloved country free from indoor smoking I’ll appreciate it very much. If they wish our Indonesian people to be as smart as Jewish, they should really learn and practice harder. (I’ve just read the secrets why Jewish people are so damn smart from Elyani’s blog)

Dev!!! Don’t say the J word! You know how much people hate them! Those ‘Zionist-haters’ will come and start throwing abusive comments at us if we as much as mention the J word! LOL

OMG, even when I learned meditation from my Hindu teacher, she didn’t teach me that Om or Am. The spell is no relation with the religion. It’s like a tools so we can concentrate more and more.

And same like boy, during my Yoga practice, even my teacher laugh at me because of my “Holly Shut” or “Ouch” chant.

That Yoga things because MUI didn’t want to loose their “pamor” with their relative in Malaysia.

That’s what I thought too, Tere. I think the MUI was feeling left out by the Malaysians Ulema because they weren’t productive enough – in terms of making edicts etc., which is stupid since none of those edicts actually make a huge difference. Fat chance telling a smoke addict to stop smoking just because he/she is going to hell. They’d just shrug and go, “So?”

@boy: same here! i’d either curse or huffin and puffin when doing yoga. forget ‘om’!
seriously, mui can’t really tell people what to do with their silly ‘fatwa’. especially for non muslim, it’s not fair for them not to be able to do things because mui said so.
besides, mui can just ‘obral’ their fatwas to their own people; instead of making it a law for everybody, mui can tell the islam population that they won’t go to heaven and be with the virgins if they smoke or chant ‘om’ during yoga.

And no one will actually give a shit. LOL. Edict or no edict, smokers will still smoke as long as they still have the money (and lungs) for it. It’s a classic Indonesian government’s style to solve problems the idiot way – instead of solving it, they just ban and forbid things. They probably haven’t learnt from their teenage children that the more you forbid people, the more they want to break the rules!

i heard they’re banning jaipong?? because of their sexy costumes? really????? *haven’t read the paper for a while*

Not banning but restricting it to contain less erotic moves. Whatever the fuck that means. We have never had problems with Jaipong for hundreds of years and now it’s considered to be pornographic?

First, I’ve been busy like hell this week what with meetings, first week of school, recording sessions and preparing for a gig tomorrow night. Sorry if Í’ve been neglecting you and your blog.
second, i need time to get used to this template of yours, but i know how you love blue and i know u’re gonna stick with this one for at least a few weeks before changing it back or to some other template.
third, I’m glad I dont live in Indo at the moment as I am thinking of taking up yoga, smoking, not wanting to participate in the upcoming elections, etc etc.. I’m as dirty an infidel as they come.. lol
Fourth, why can’t I scroll down and see my own comment? I had to cut and paste this comment to word and then copy paste it to ur blog to be able to write this long comment (which isn’t really long anyway).

Hey Rima, welcome back!! Haven’t talked to you for aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages.
Yeah I tested the comment box, it didn’t seem to be able to view comments any longer than 5-7 rows long, although it is possible to write a longer one.

Himself is going to make a custom blog template for me so expect something brill in the future – this template is just temporary. The old one, the white one, is kinda fucked up for some unknown reason (the whole 404 page not found thingy, which I’ve told you last week, still don’t know how it happened!

Fakta tentang MUI:
- bukan lembaga pemerintah, tapi dibiayai oleh pemerintah. (salah satu sumber pendapatan pemerintah adalah cukai rokok).
- MUI sebaiknya dibubarkan saja, karena pajak pendapatan saya dipakai pemerintah untuk membiayai mereka juga.
- karena bukan lembaga pemerintah, sertifikat halalnya tidak mengikat secara hukum. (sertifikat lebih cocok dikeluarkan oleh kerjasama depag dan bppom).
- MUI termasuk dalam daftar lembaga korup dalam survey LSI (eksternal audit katanya tidak pernah dilakukan).

Anda benar, Denny, oleh karena itu saya tidak mengerti kenapa lembaga ini masih tetap berdiri sampai sekarang karena status dan fungsinyanya sudah tidak jelas – mereka hanya menang di umur saja karena sudah berdiri sedemikian lamanya (dari jaman Soeharto). Tapi berdasarkan Today’s Dialogue ‘MUI Obral Fatwa’ yang saya berikan link-nya diatas, MUI tetap ngotot kalau mereka itu bersih dan sering diaudit, tapi ya itu… nggak jelas yang ngaudit siapa, hasilnya mana, bersih apa tidaknya, semua cuma omdo alias omong doang!

I’m not surprised that the ban was due to a bad experience of one of the MUI members. Maybe he heard some place called “Ooommmm” and he thought he was called. So he went in, looked around and saw a bunch of women in tight customs and compromising positions. He thought he’d died and gone to heaven.

Only to realise that he wasn’t welcome there.

I won’t be surprised if they were that gullible. LOL. Maybe the rejection still stung, that’s why the ban was out as a way of revenge…

hidup golput!!ntar nerakanya penuh dong..

Gak apa2, enak lagi bisa sembari barbeque…

About yoga ,is it helpful to quit smoking?

Hi!
Great post.
I think every position should put some special smoking sections for separating from the non-smoker.FOrbidding somking for the sake of our wealty well-being.

Good point. The government should do that. Some public places already install such spaces and most people are willing to go for it so why the edict?

I’m a balinese hindu myself
and sadly I never do yoga
is it good ?

OM certainly is a holy word for us
it’s as sacred as word YHWH for jewish

and I am sorry to hear that yoga is forbidden for moslems
but rest assure that yoga is not a way to spreads hindu
because hindu itself is not an expansive religion.
It’s takes a lot of ceremony and offerings to convert someone to hindu, saying some word wouldn’t make you a hindu.

Do tell that to the bastards at MUI and they will give a 100 reasons why you’re wrong. And your Hindu. And they’re not. And they still think they know more than you do. Absurd, no?