Indonesians: “Sharia Sucks, But We Still Want It!”

Posted on November 23, 2007
Filed Under Islam, Sharia

Believe it or not, here it comes:

Life no better with sharia bylaws: Survey

The Jakarta Post, Bogor
Most Indonesians support the enactment of sharia bylaws even though they know ordinances already in place in several regencies have failed to improve social welfare, a survey has found.

“People’s welfare remains the same as it was before the sharia bylaws were enforced,” said the survey report.

So let me rephrase it: “we are poor, we are failed and we are loving it!”

The survey involved 1,000 respondents including 200 non-Muslims and showed 44.5 percent of Muslims said the bylaws did not improve the economy of regional populations, as it had been intended to.

“In Bireun, the tourist sector has been drastically declining after the local authorities enforced canning punishments for adultery and alcoholism,” CSRC researcher Syukran Kamil said.

I guess those infidels don’t want to have fun without the alcohol and…you know…

However, the ordinances received the support of 94.7 percent of respondents, who said they believed said bylaws were needed as a “way-out” from the numerous problems facing the nation.

Support also came from almost half (46 percent) of non-Muslim respondents

“The main reason for their approval is because (Muslim and non-Muslim) respondents said they believed sharia is part of a religious duty,” Syukran said.

That’s right! This is why you are such an advanced, modern and prosperous community.

I am sorry to say this, but now I know why they are poor and failed. It’s because they are dumb!

Muslims in general would say “yes” if asked whether they agreed sharia should be enforced in the country, Azyumardi said.

But he said if respondents had been asked specific questions, including if they would support hudud (harsh Islamic criminal law), which is part of sharia, “their answers would be totally different”.

Oh I get it…Sharia “light”, huh? But I guess I can interpret their answer as “kill them first, sort them out later”

And for all the apologists, appeasers and “why_can’t_we_all_live_in_peace” gooks, here is another finding of that survey

The survey also found Indonesian non-Muslims are more tolerant than Muslims.

Most Muslim respondents would reject churches and other un-Islamic places of worships built in their neighborhood and refused to send their children to non-Muslim schools.

But most non-Muslim respondents were found to have no problem with the establishment of mosques at their doorstep.