Sharia Law Replaces Civil Law in Poor Indonesian Islands - Lewis Simmons

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/24/Lewis_M_Simons_on_Southeast_Asia_The_Next_Front

Lewis M. Simons, journalist and co-author of The Next Front, tells of how Sharia law has supplanted constitutional law in some remote Indonesian islands. The poverty stricken residents have allowed Muslim clerics to collaborate with military and police officials to enforce the Islamic religious law.

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With his co-author, Senator Christopher Bond, Lewis M. Simons, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, argues that Southeast Asia, and especially Indonesia, will be the next hot spot in the war on terror. The authors propose that the U.S., having lost credibility with failed military efforts in the Middle East, deploy "smart power" -- civilians -- instead of soldiers to defuse anger and create alternatives to violent movements. - Politics and Prose Bookstore

Lewis M. Simons is a freelance writer who won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. He served as the foreign policy correspondent for Time magazine from 1996 to 1997 and bureau chief in Tokyo for Knight-Ridder Newspapers from 1989 to 1996. He has also been a correspondent for the Associated Press and a reporter for the Washington Post.

Simons is the author of Worth Dying For, published by William Morrow and Company, as well as numerous articles for the Atlantic Monthly, National Geographic, Smithsonian, and the New York Times. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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[lynleyinlondon]

Shiriah Law is a real threat to civilisation. We must never allow this abomination to infiltrate America and Europe. Religion is cultural poison; Islam is particularly toxic.

[cristop5]

martinasanchez: Thanks for that information about the Jews doing all the terrorist activity in Iraq. And I was impressed how your research showed it's Mossad/CIA that is responsible for the troubles in Sudan.

Here are some stories for you in return:

FEMA in is building death camps across the US to exterminate most of the population.

The vapor trails behind jets are really chemicals to poison us.

The 9/11 attacks were an inside job.

Elvis Presley is still alive and living in Idaho.

[Salva3632]

@chilmyxy I am an Indonesian an well, and the radical movement and Islamic extremist r growing fast in indonesia, they have closed, burned down thousand of churches, and also the case presented above is the fact.

[rhomas913]

@cinnamonpapprika

a simple internet search indicates that Bulukumba Regency is one of the twenty one regencies in South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. The city of Ujungbulu is its largest city.

[chilmyxy]

you don't know how the feel of Indonesian...

I am a muslim... Iam Indonesian.. I am a student of ITTelkom University..

We have our will you can't judge by yourself.. we never have class faith with cristhianity, budist, hinduism maybe we live in big union of Islam...

don't disturb another house public...

we as Indonesian have free will and responsibility that planted from child n tolerate.. we are not like in western or in arabian

[eorobinson3]

@jordana8899Id

I'd rather have my wife once a whore as you call it, its called college you barbarian, oh thats right most muslim women aren't allowed to get an education, how lucky of you to have a western education that you would never receive under your Sunni shia slave states in the middle east. You really think that's the kind of response you should be selling your sisters in bondage over there. Just another brainwashed female apologist for that misogynistic cult.

[psutowo]

sharia is basically the rules and customs that the arabic people have used since over a thousand years ago. don't you think the world has changed just a little bit since then? if you were sick and you went to a doctor that was educated with knowledge from over a thousand years ago, would you listen to him/her? (since it was from thousand years ago let's assume him)

[jordana8899]

Christianity is for the sons of whores

Bible = Fake

Christian Women = Dick sucking sluts

Priests = Child Molesters and pedophiles

Earth is NOT flat....and Dinosaurs DID exist

[imrandol]

@lynleyinlondon : for example.Churches gave order to ban scientific inventions and ordered them to kill them.shariya law is not like that plz read shariya first and then speak against it.if u read shariya and quran u will come to know how easy and logical it is

[imrandol]

Islam is very natural religion... i hope u have wrong perception regarding Islam. i hope u have seen or watch few ppl doing wrong thing... please do not judge religion by its ppl..please ask ppl who know Islam very well..shariya law is not like church law at early ages...

[angrygunsmith]

@lynleyinlondon islam is not a religion, a belief, it is a 100 percent system of life and thats what makes it seem so scary

[cinnamonpapprika]

... =A= Okay, so I've lived in Indonesia all my life and I've never heard of a region called Bula Kumba or whatever is that.