Indonesian women need to stop straddling motorbikes

[Dusty Bake Activate]

BBC News - Indonesia city to ban women 'straddling motorbikes'

A city in the Indonesian province of Aceh which follows Sharia has ordered female passengers not to straddle motorbikes behind male drivers.

Suaidi Yahya, mayor of Lhokseumawe, says it aims to save people's "morals and behaviours".

Leaflets have been sent out to government offices and residents to inform them about the regulation.

Aceh is the only Indonesian province that follows Sharia.

Under the new regulation, the mayor says that women passengers are only allowed to sit "side-saddle" because straddling the bike seat violates Islamic values.

"When you see a woman straddle, she looks like a man. But if she sits side-saddle, she looks like a woman," Suaidi said.

He added that passengers who sat side-saddle rarely fell off.

The local government will be evaluating the regulation in a month, after which it could turn into a by-law, he added.

When asked if women who did not follow the rule would be punished, Suaidi said: "Once it has become a by-law, automatically there will be sanctions."

The regulation has been met with criticism from well-known Muslim activists like Ulil Abshar Abdalla, who is based in the capital, Jakarta.

"How to ride a motorbike is not regulated in Sharia. There is no mention of it in the Koran or Hadiths," he said on his Twitter account, referring to the second most sacred text in Islam after the Koran.

"In a democratic country, what is claimed to be Sharia must be assessed by the public's common sense if the government aims to turn the regulation into law."

 

[Robbie3000]

ohhh Islam, stop it.

 

[88m3]

"When you see a woman straddle, she looks like a man. But if she sits side-saddle, she looks like a woman," Suaidi said.

I swear they are all gay

He added that passengers who sat side-saddle rarely fell off.

beyond the pale

 

[the cac mamba]

islam

 

[The Real]

BBC News - Indonesia city to ban women 'straddling motorbikes'

Besides this being dumb as fukk, surely they have bigger issues to be worrying about than poeple's bike-riding positions.

 

[Techniec]

islam

ohhh Islam, stop it.

The regulation has been met with criticism from well-known Muslim activists like Ulil Abshar Abdalla, who is based in the capital, Jakarta.

"How to ride a motorbike is not regulated in Sharia. There is no mention of it in the Koran or Hadiths," he said on his Twitter account, referring to the second most sacred text in Islam after the Koran.

"In a democratic country, what is claimed to be Sharia must be assessed by the public's common sense if the government aims to turn the regulation into law."

 

[CouldntBeMeTho]

*mr. somebody voice

"straddling motorbikes is demonic friends"

 

[ltheghost]

I've been to Jakarta... Good luck in enforcing this. WAY too many people on motorbikes in the area. It would impossible to keep track of all the people, you might catch one or two but is insane to even think about doing something like this.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Pic violation

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

Waiting for Mowgli or Mr. Somebody to come through and defend this.

 

[atlbound]

its almost like the Islamic law people sit around all day thinking up sexual connotation to everyday actions

 

[newworldafro]

sometimes these cats just be...................................................

I guess they want these

or possibly this

 

[Type Username Here]

sometimes these cats just be...................................................

I guess they want these

or possibly this

They meant sitting like this:

They don't understand basic physics, human anatomy or the concept of equilibrium.

 

[Robbie3000]

Why is Islam in general so obsessed with Sex?

 

[GoPro]

Stupid mother fukkers