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  johnpi 5:43 am on October 21, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: adultery (7), Borneo Island, Brunei, hudud laws, whipping (3)

  Bruneians want cheating husbands whipped: survey.

  Most Bruneians want husbands who cheat on their wives to be whipped, according to a recent survey in the Muslim-majority country.

  The survey, conducted by website brudirect (www.brudirect.com), found 76 percent of 272 respondents said men should be whipped for having affairs while only 55 percent said unfaithful wives should receive the same punishment.

  “The result of the survey is an indication of the pent-up feelings that women harbor against irresponsible men,” an unnamed social worker from Brunei was quoted as saying on the website.

  The oil-rich state of Brunei, located on Borneo Island, has a population of almost 400,000 of which 66 percent are Muslim.

   

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  johnpi 11:33 am on May 30, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Brunei, indonesia (54), Malaysia (99), saudi arabia (135), sex tourism (2), sexual relations (12)

  Saudi Arabians engage in ‘halal sex tourism’ in indonesia.

  A large number of Saudis are engaging in temporary marriages with Indonesian women with the intention of divorcing them….

  “We in Indonesia consider people of Makkah and Madinah as blessed ones. The man gave me a dowry of six million Indonesian rupiahs (SR2,024). The dowry helped us to solve some of our economic problems. My family did not know that the man was intending to have a temporary marriage.”

  She adds: “After a few days he paid us the remaining amount of three million rupiahs (SR1,011) and left the country.” Noor said she later had a similar marriage with another Saudi before finding a job at a nightclub as a singer and dancer.

  She didn’t start out as a nightclub singer…lucky Malaysians will soon have all those ‘Arab cities’ in their midst where one might imagine that the Saudis will continue to seek out “halal tourism.”

   
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  johnpi 5:38 am on April 29, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Arabic culture (3), arabs (23), Brunei, colonialism (29), halal tourism (3), indonesia (54), islamophobia (228), Malaysia (99), Muslim persecution (19), racial profiling (19), tourism (6)

  Arab investors to build ‘Arab cities’ in Malaysia.

  Malacca chief minister Mohamad Ali Rustam reportedly said the project, due for completion by 2012, will attract more Middle Eastern tourists and give locals a chance to experience Arabic culture.

  Arab tourists spend on average 10 times more than other tourists, according to recent reports on Malaysian tourism that showed an increasing number of Muslim Middle Eastern tourists are seeking “halal tourism” in Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei while avoiding the U.S. and Europe because of post Sept. 11, 2001 stereotyping and racial profiling.