Wednesday, April 12, 2006
MAGAZINE LAUNCHED
They removed the naked women, but it looks like they forgot to take out the cartoons:
Several Indonesian policemen have been hurt as hundreds of radical Muslim demonstrators threw stones at the Jakarta offices of Playboy magazine.
The magazine published a sanitised Indonesian edition for the first time last week containing no nudes, but the demonstrators have vowed to continue their attacks until the office is closed down.
About 300 members of the Islamic Defenders Front smashed windows and a gate at the magazine’s offices in South Jakarta demanding that it cease publication.
Similar, though less violent, attitudes towards the female body were once present in Australia. One hundred years ago.
UPDATE. Much more on this from Gateway Pundit.