DR Majeedh moyavaneetha?

Homosexualization of muslims

CHSE students should feel lucky that Maldives police do not come and take them away everytime a boy and girl sit together on a bench in Sultan Park.

But if the Talibanisation of Maldives continues, we can expect scenes from like this investigative photo essay on BBC website. Check it out!

In a normal world, and I am talking about the West here because that is the only sphere of the world where people have basic freedoms like choice of religion and sexuality, only around 1 out of 10 people turn out to be bisexual and/or homosexual.

But in most societies like Maldives and Iran, the forced homosexualization begins with sex segregation in schools.

As a result, during the period of adolescence when children grow up, their sexual curiosities mostly blossom towards the same sex, because they are prohibited from mingling and getting to know the opposite sex.

So it is no wonder that in countries like Maldives and the Middle East, our bisexual and homosexual population is way higher than in a normal society. In fact, only 1 in 10 Maldivians may be truly strictly heterosexual. Most men and women of Maldives are bisexual and homosexual, I strongly suspect, though they have to remain closeted due to Constitutional restrictions. If historical writings about Maldives gives a clue, it is that promiscuity is widespread in Maldives and that most Maldivians are very comfortable being bisexual. In other words, any kind of sex is OK for the average Maldivian as long as it is sex!

But when we now call for the Government to get rid of this age-old sex segregation in our schools, extremists voice against such a move. Ironic! Why should they support the forced homosexualization of Maldives? LOL

Thanks to a friend for sharing this link.

In pictures: The 15 hottest male celebrity body parts

by Kaitlin Menza / Glamour

Sure, lots of guy celebrities are handsome, but some of these hotties distinguish themselves with such a spectacular singular physical feature that it makes it impossible to keep us focused on silly things like, say, plot. Read on for the 15 most droolworthy biceps, buns, abs and more.

VIEW THE PICTURES

1. Brad Pitt’s abs
2. Derek Jeter’s butt
3. George Clooney’s eyebrows
4. James Lafferty’s torso
5. Robert Pattinson’s mouth
6. Ryan Reynolds’ arms
7. Idris Elba’s lips
8. Matt Damon’s biceps
9. Mehcad Brooks’ backside
10. Jacoby Ellsbury’s dimples
11. Hugh Jackman’s shoulders
12. TI’s smile
13. David Beckham’s legs
14. Common’s eyes
15. Matthew McConaughey’s stomach

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Islam prohibited shaking hands of alien marriageable women???

Photos show Iran’s ambassador to Turkey, Bahman Hosseinpour refuse to shake hand to female guest!

Did they really assume that whoever we shake hands would marry or even have sexual desire!

I DONT THIK SO... WHAT U SAY?????????

What u say about having sex befor marriage???

Hi all ,this is a serious cultural discussion ..I would like to make a opinoun servey of this dilicate isssue...In Maldives this is considered as a depraved problem ,It violate social moral standard and can not be acceptable .However ,under considerable impact of pornographic pics,movie,website,..and other channels percentage of sex in teenage increase alarmingly
How Populer is sex in Maldives??
Which age is acceptable for sex ?

1. Being girl,how can you deny a request of sex from your boy friend ?Being boy in love , do you think sex is the best way for ur lover prove her love toward u ?

What would u have done if u have passed the limitaion and get pregnant unwarily ?
Hope to have your sincere comments

Dear moderately religious reader

Let me just say this outright and get it out of the way. There will be a terrorist attack of unprecedented level on our sovereign nation lead by our very own Dhivehin in the very near future if we keep ignoring and do nothing about the warnings that are staring blankly at our face.

The identity of our country is changing rapidly. We can see that today. This is definitely not the Dhivehi Raaje of a decade ago - perhaps even less. One of the ugliest faces of organized religion is here, infecting our gullible minds, creating unthinking, unfeeling zombies out of our very own people. And the moderates among us are still sitting on their rearends pointing their hypocritical fingers at something else and looking the other way.

I know what you are thinking, dear moderately religious reader. You are thinking that at least you are on a path even though you may not be on the right path fully. The right path being what the ultra-conservative religious fanatics say what the right path is. You don’t have the balls to get up and question or challenge these ideologies. In fact, you realize you don’t know much about religion and therefore whatever crackpot ideas and bullshit stories that they spit out, you are ready to either believe them or just let them be as long as they don’t meddle with your freedoms. I have news for you, my friend. It is their business to meddle with your freedom. But where do these crackpot ideas come from?

Sermon after sermon is given on TV and radio by hetherto unknown faces day in and day out! Some of the bullshit they dribble from their brains is not even qualified to be on the MAD magazine! And yet, there it is. Qiyaamath this, rasool that, naraka this, suvaruge that! Endless madness! And it is always a one-way thing. No one, not ONE attending person has ever, EVER raised a question - let alone challenged these utterly ridiculous stories. We don’t need these one-way sermons. We need real debates. That’s what democracy is about. It’s not about listening like imbeciles to hour after hour of tales from Arabia.

I have a feeling we Dhivehin just love to listen to pretentious wise-old men talking and telling tall tales. Maybe it is something from the holuashi days. Anyway, let me continue.

Here is a real moderate’s opinion of today’s situation:

“I don’t think killing people and going on jihad are allowed in Islam”#1

This was a quote from none other than the president of the Human Rights Commission, Mr. Saleem. This quote demonstrates exactly what I am talking about very clearly and very concisely.

The point is, no one is sure. Everyone’s in the dark. Mr. Saleem is definitely in the dark and there is no light-bulb in sight! We are just sort of nodding to everything.

Jihad is loving your neighbour. Ah, yes, yes. Jihad is not about killing. Ah, right, right. Jihad is killing all infidels. Oh, ok. Jihad is a struggle. Ah, yes, lets struggle. Jihad was a minister. Oh?

And commission member Ahmed Abdul Kareem (isn’t this the guy on the Music is Haraam video?) likes to pass the blame around to the previous government. And then he transforms into one of those wise-old sermon weilding men I mentioned earlier. Select religious sermon voice-type.

“…jihad is carried out for a very noble purpose and it cannot be done just for the sake of doing it.”#2

Excuse me, sir. But whose idea of “noble purpose” are you talking about? Why are you telling this to us?

What is wrong with these people? They sound like they want to powder up their own asses and leave. Nine Maldivians getting arrested in possession of arms in a highly radicalized region of Pakistan should be considered a disaster of collosal proportions for a country that absolutely depends on the Euro-dollar from tourism. We don’t have the volume of people and resources that, say, Sri Lanka has to survive and support and economy even under terrorism’s dark shadow. When terrorism arrives and tourism is gone, we will be gone. It is no time to pass on blame or to give one’s definition of or opinions of Islamic ideologies.

And yet, look at us. Look at you, dear moderately religious reader. Sipping your coffees, pretending to think. What have you done to challenge radicalization lately?

So what’s a confused country to do? We don’t know whether we should be taking the infidel’s beer money or not. We’re not sure whether sheikh so-and-so is right and sheikh was-and-now is not. The reality is that religion, especially Islam, has become a cancerous disease that is mutating a resistance to every anti-biotic thrown at it. And for people like you, dear moderately religious reader, there is no escaping it either.

The outlook, the way I see it, is horrible. We lack a reliable security service, we lack proper jail facilities, we lack expertise in terrorism, we lack laws that will protect individuals: witnesses and opinion formers (private individuals, parliamentarians and commissioners etc), we have infected our constitution with religion on someone’s whim. I am afraid to think the bleak future of our nation: rampant ignorance, gullibility and the diseases of organized militant religion - especially since we are in the neighbourhood of some of the most dangerous countries in the world.

For a start, let us define traitors and bring some nationalism back. Let us love our country before we love our religion. Let us then, by law, condemn Maldivian-Islamic militants as traitors to the nation.

But I suppose, we’ll hear about your definition of jihad now, eh dear moderately religious reader?

God vs. Adhaalathu

Is Adhaalathu out to prove what I have already known for many, many years? That God has the power of Omni-humor and Omni-sarcasm? Or is God out to prove that Adaalathu is a bunch of crackpots and their irrelevance?

Because back in January, during the war in Gaza, Adaalathu’s own sheikh lead a prayer at Majid Sultan praying for God to keep the people of Gaza safe and to give the fighters, namely Hamas, victory over the invading Israeli army. God answered by allowing the murder of hundreds of innocent Gazan men, women and children on top of the hundreds of Hamas fighters.

Then last Friday, Adaalathu prayed for rain as we are facing a severe water shortage. If only Adaalathu had sent in a team of engineers to get the 52 or so donated desalination plants scattered across the country in working order, we wouldn’t have to deal with God’s unique sense of humor which resulted in him sending only few minutes of rain that night. Concentrated to the Maale district. Rain that was utterly inadequate for anything but symbolism of comedy-noir.

I am beginning to think that even God is out to destroy what is left of Adhaalathu’s credibility. And maybe vice-versa. I mean, isn’t Adhaalathu making God look like some kind of a two-bit magician? Couldn’t save the children of Gaza and sent in a bucketful of water. Hardy har har. And I think these group prayers for rain is reminiscent of pagan rituals of the old. I wonder where that came from. Madagascar 2?

To make matters worse for them president Nasheed has installed his own crackpot sheikh into the mix at the Islamic ministry which has always been irrelevant and is increasingly proving so.

And adding insult to injury for Adhaalathu? Yes, the opening of the shrine of that Moroccan by the Home ministry in defiance of Adhaalathu sheikhs was that moment when you could almost imagine them with their tails between their legs.

My problem with Nasheed’s administration is that they have allowed these people to play around too much. Establishing a figh academy and a committee to combat religious differences? Where is the money for this kind of harebrained ideas?

Three-year-old Girl Molested

A Maldivian construction worker was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly molesting a three-year-old girl in her home.

The girl’s father said the 28-year-old man came to Alif Alif atoll Rasdhoo a week ago for work and was renting a room at their house.

“This happened on Monday,” he said. “I was shocked when I heard the news that my daughter had been molested.

“I can’t even begin to describe what happened to me. My blood began to boil and I wanted to finish him off with my bare hands”

The girl’s father said she had disappeared on Monday at around 11.30am and was later found crying in the man’s room.

“When she was having a bath, she told her mum she had felt a burning sensation when she urinated. Then when we questioned her, she said the man had molested her.”

If police failed to investigate the case, he added, angry islanders would “sentence” him themselves.

Medical reports showed the girl had been sexually assaulted, said Ahmed Shakir, director for Alif Alif atoll hospital

Shiyara Mohamed Didi, assistant director of department of child and family protection unit, said there has been a rapid increase in the number of cases reported and the department was “very concerned”.

When a case is reported, the department carries out medical tests, looks for evidence and provides a counselling service.

“People are more aware about reporting child abuse cases. Previously, cases were only reported if a child became pregnant.

“But today, society believes that even showing pornographic images and objects to children constitutes abuse. I can’t say child abusing rates are increasing. But the recorded rates have increased of course.”

Although no survey has been carried out to investigate the reasons for child abuse, some cases are related to drugs and housing issues, said Didi.

To tackle child abuse cases, the department of child and family protection unit has established 20 family and children service centres across the islands.

In December 2008, police said four incidents of gang rape in the capital Male’ were being investigated by the Maldives Police Service, and all the victims were under the age of 18.

More recently, a 14-year-old girl was raped by a man performing 'fanditha' on her – a traditional Maldivian healing process which involves reciting Quranic verses.

Child sex offenders were banished for one- to two-year with 10 to 19 lashes until February 2008, but the sentencing guidelines were amended following increasing pressure on the government from human rights groups, local NGOs and the public after a series of high-profile sexual offence cases.

Now child sex offenders are sentenced from three to eight years' imprisonment.

Gayoom's 2008 Challenges

Last year was a politically momentous year for the Indian Ocean island of the Maldives. It was, I guess you could say, a year of firsts.

It was the year when the face of politics changed, both literally and figuratively, for the first time in 30 years.

It was the year when Asia’s longest serving leader, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, was defeated in the country’s first multi-party elections.

Gayoom came to power in 1978, succeeding his political rival, the former late president Ibrahim Nasir.

Once in office, he won the hearts of many Maldivians while others viewed him as a dictator who ruled with an iron-fist, clamping down on a catalogue of rights usually considered as the pillars of democracy.

In 2005, Gayoom banned the Universal Declaration of Human Rights from being distributed in the Maldives; an act which speaks volumes.

Although, Gayoom won each of the presidential elections over the past three decades, with a reported 90 per cent of the vote, he was the sole candidate in all of these elections.

These victories can only be described as empty. His opponents, furthermore, claim the elections were rigged.

The main opposition party, the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP), accused Gayoom of violating human rights and using religion as a tool to subjugate the population.

It took the party members years to finally defeat Gayoom but they did not give up and it is in part due to their unremitting spirit, that democracy, in the true sense of the word, was finally able to put down roots in the Maldives.

But Gayoom challenged the opposition at every stage, deflecting every crisis thrown at him, until the bitter end. I can't remember ever seeing anyone so politically astute.

And just what were these crises? During his long reign, he came face to face with several incidents designed to end his rule.

Most notably, the 1988 coup attempt and the 2004 Black Friday demonstration, when thousands protested in Republican Square demanding democratic reform.

Gayoom defied every one of these incidents, declaring himself to be the victor at every turn.

In a sense, his first failure did not come until last year when he was beaten by Mohamed Nasheed, the leader of the MDP and a former political prisoner, in the presidential elections.

But the year had begun ominously with an attempt on Gayoom’s life.

In January 2008, Mohamed Murushid, 20, tried to stab Gayoom with a 12-inch life; lucky for the former president, a 15-year-old boy scout came to his rescue.

But after watching videos of the incident, many journalists questioned where this so-called boy scout was. As far as we could see, Gayoom had defended himself against the blade.

The next milestone of the year was the drafting of the new constitution. In July 2008, a crowd of hundreds gathered outside the presidential palace to protest for the ratification of the constitution to be expedited.

A week later on 7 August 2008, the constitution was ratified by Gayoom in a ceremony held at Dharubaaruge Hall.

And then of course, we come to the the first multi-party elections in the Maldives, held on 8 October 2008 – a day that will go down in history.

At the end of the first round, Gayoom led with 41 per cent of the vote and Nasheed with 25 per cent. Although five candidates contested, no single person obtained as many votes as Gayoom.

In accordance with the rules, as no one candidate secured 50 per cent of the votes, a second round was held.

At this crucial juncture, several other political parties rallied around Nasheed, pledging their support in exchange for a number of political privileges, including cabinet seats.

And so the coalition was born and Nasheed was victorious with 54 per cent of the vote to Gayoom’s 46 per cent.

But of course, we have to wonder, especially with the upcoming parliamentary elections, whether Nasheed would have received as many votes without the backing of the coalition.

Either way, there is no denying the time for change was ripe and was ushered in through democratic channels.

I have always believed Gayoom’s greatest mistake for losing the elections was his campaign strategy.

While Nasheed and the coalition were campaigning about social issues, Gayoom’s team entertained the party’s supporters by organising dance and puppet shows.

Rather than using prominent and publicly accepted figures like Shaheen Hameed and the former cabinet minister Mohamed Nasheed, Gayoom used comedians like Alhaan Fahumee and Ali Waheed to boost his ratings and win votes; a strategy that backfired.

And now we welcome in a new year and with it comes a new set of questions and expectations.

What role will Gayoom play in politics this year? And what challenges will he and his party face?

Whatever happens, it will be an exciting year in politics as we see how our fledgling democracy grows and takes shape, and as we watch the two rival parties switch places for the first time in 30 years.