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It's an amusing article - combining Islam with Sugarbook is pretty explosive. (Malaysia's dominant ethnic groups are locals, Indians and Chinese, but their cons
by redis_mlc 5y ago
It's an amusing article - combining Islam with Sugarbook is pretty explosive. (Malaysia's dominant ethnic groups are locals, Indians and Chinese, but their constitution favors Muslims.)
It's accepted to have temporary wives (under a religious marriage for a few days) as escorts in Islamic countries, but quietly. Once it hits the press, authorities often feel compelled to do something about it.
But Sugarbook doesn't even fall under the fig leaf of temporary wives, and the membership numbers are shocking for a small country.
Some other commenters asked what's the harm of Sugarbook or OF:
1) women have a limited window to start a family and have children. Disrupting that has a very high price for both individuals and society.
2) making relationships purely transactional
3) normalizing the above across the population.
- cher88 5y agoMalaysia’s dominant ethic group is Malay, which is defined by the constitution as someone who “professes the religion of Islam, habitually speaks the Malay language, and conforms to Malay custom.” It is this group that the constitution favors. (Incidentally, it is illegal to convert out of Islam in Malaysia.) The indigenous locals, Chinese, and Indians are all minorities.
- redis_mlc 5y agoWe both know what "the constitution favors" means, and it isn't pretty. By locals I meant Malay, since there aren't a lot of Dayak, etc. walking around the cities. But I forgot to mention that prostitution is allowed for Chinese women in Malaysia, so the first floor in most hotels is a giant brothel. Gotta love Islamic countries. :)
- gher-shyu3i 5y ago> combining Islam with Sugarbook is pretty explosive What's that supposed to mean? Islam is strictly against this practice.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 5y agoThe Catholic church never condoned pederasty either...
- gher-shyu3i 5y ago> Pederasty or paederasty is a sexual relationship between an adult man and a pubescent or adolescent boy. Homosexual relationships are not permitted in Islam. Also, Islam has nothing to do with the Catholic church's sick practices.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 5y agoOh boy, another Muslim who thinks Islam is an infallible faith...
- gher-shyu3i 5y agoOf course it is. I invite you and anyone reading this comment to take a proper and serious look at it from authentic and non-Islamophobic sources. We wouldn't have many of the socio-economic problems we see today were we to follow Islam.