Mail från Indonesien.

Jag fick ett mail från min bästa kompis på Indonesien, Jakarta, kristen kines. Indonesien förutom små fundamentalistiska hörnor som Aceh, föraktar den arabiska islamismen och anser den primitiv, den som svenska media berättar är den enda, gudomliga. Malaysia är likadant, några fundamentalistiska hörnor. En bekant där är tyvärr rädd för att polisen ska upptäcka vad hon skriver i mail.....

You guys should just follow Japan. The smartest policy ever. Just ban them from coming in. If they are already in, ban them from practicing religion in the open. Do you know there is only one imam in Tokyo? Good job well done, japs. [Jämför Kina.]

Our vice president just banned mosques to play recorded praying (said recorded praying does not count as praying) and restaurants/eateries should be open during the fasting month (no more white cloth draping over the windows) to respect people who are not moslems.

You know how people react to his statement, the fact that he is a moslem too and has respected reputation as a clean politician, and being 70 something is a huge advantage. You do not yell and call names to old persons with those credentials.

Not many people dare to say what he said, and so far he is not only the first person to criticize how moslems should behave, he is also the first moslem who is brave enough to point that out. Long live MJK. He belongs to the usually quiet, educated moslem communities who clearly stated that  indo moslems should not embrace arab cultures. It would be a huge step back. It may take some time for people to fully understand that sharia law belongs to mean, self centered men who just can not be put to trial for their own sins. We all used to live in caves centuries ago. Now we live in houses, own a car, so why would they still hang on to law or tradition during the time they still ride on camels' back? It is so outdated. You do no longer burn sorcerers. Well sorcerers now do earn millions and have their own tv shows. Why would you stone adulterers to death, cut off a thief's arm, but send rapists free because no four male witnesses around??? 

I went to church on Sunday (thunder rolled, the sea parted ... nah), and as I tried to concentrate on hearing the sermon (because seeing is hardly believing, I sat behind two pillars so I could not see whoever was talking, just the middle part of his face: nose, lips and sometimes right eye or left eye), this muscle guy who sat beside me took off his shoes and put his bare feet on the kneeling pad, while his body was bending forward, I thought he was searching for his lost soul somewhere between his knees, but in reality his hands was cuddling his smart phone and he was browsing either instagrams  or facebook. Sometimes he chatted softly with the pretty five years old who sat directly in front of him, whose parents undoubtedly his acquaintance, his wife minded her own business holding their baby. The little girl sometimes wandered off to his seat, sometimes swimming on the bench while her parents were kneeling, sometimes tried to shake her mother (whose eyes are on the altar mostly), annoyed her little sister (who is unfortunately less pretty and less hair too, poor girl she's going to suffer and probably lose the sibling war), ignored her father who spent most time trying to locate his older daughter's whereabouts (I lost count on how many times he turned his head around).

By the time the holy communion was given, the beau pocketed his phone, put on his shoes and rose to receive the blessing as a good, old fashioned catholic boy.

In the end, I apologized to God for being a shallow person who judge people I don't know, instead of paying attention to the sermon I was scrutinizing other people's behaviour. You can't fix stupid, and you can't fix nosy either.

Tomorrow I go back to work. Bitchy client waiting.

Have a nice Sunday!

†Indonesien †islam. .........