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Southeast Asia
Indonesians hurl stones at Playboy offices
2006-04-12
A group of Muslims protesting Playboy's decision to launch an Indonesian edition of the magazine clashed with police Wednesday and stoned the company's editorial offices, witnesses said. No one was injured in the protest involving around 150 members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union Islamic Defenders' Front, a small group with a history of attacking bars and nightclubs, as well as Western embassies. The protesters smashed several windows and the door and gate at the magazine's offices in south Jakarta, witnesses said. Several were seen scuffling with police officers guarding the building. But many Islamic politicians and preachers have condemned the publication, with most saying that the name of the magazine itself was grounds for the government to ban it. The magazine is selling well, according to vendors, and threatened mass protests against it have failed to materialize.
Hef just celebrated his 80th birthday. The world will be a smaller place when the old goat's gone...
Posted by:Seafarious

#10  Guess they don't read 'Fark' in Indonesia either.
Posted by: DMFD   2006-04-12 23:42  

#9  like Loons
Posted by: Frank G   2006-04-12 19:56  

#8  If they react that way to birds showing their boobies just how will they react to the birds called Boobies?
Posted by: Cheaderhead   2006-04-12 18:04  

#7  Gee, thanks. Now I have Cher's voice singing that hideous song in my head...
Posted by: Pappy   2006-04-12 14:03  

#6  reminds me of the song sung by Cher

Gypsies tramps and thieves
We'd hear it from the people of the town
They'd call us
Gypsies tramps and thieves
But every night all the men would come around
And lay their money down

Posted by: mhw   2006-04-12 12:05  

#5  that picture is sooo funny on so many levels.
Posted by: 2b   2006-04-12 11:42  

#4  PLAYBOY INDONESIA

If you do it, you'll eventually go blind...

So just do it till you need glasses.
The optometrists need the work.
Posted by: BigEd   2006-04-12 11:40  

#3  I notice that they have the book open to the centerfold when burning. Might as well take a look and protest at the same time.
Maybe thier eyes will fall out.
Posted by: plainslow   2006-04-12 11:33  

#2  Just wait for the push-back:

"Playboys hurl Indonesians at Stones."

Mick and Kieth are said to be WAY pissed...
Posted by: mojo   2006-04-12 10:37  

#1  Hef is 80? Surely something to be said for the link between and good p**** and male longevity.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-04-12 09:58  

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