Indonesian Anti-Porn Politician Caught Watching Porn…in Parliament
- Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:26pm by
Emily Esfahani Smith
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Mr Arifinto, a member of an Islamic political party in Indonesia was busted for looking at pornographic images on his tablet computer on Friday–during Parliament. Ironically, the Islamic Prosperous Justice Party, to which Mr Arifinto belongs, promoted anti-pornography legislation which may now be used against Arifinto, who, like Madonna, only goes by one name. Since the incident, he has resigned.
The BBC reports:
A member of parliament from an Islamic party which promoted anti-pornography legislation has resigned after being caught watching porn in parliament.
Mr Arifinto of the Islamic Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) was photographed looking at the images on Friday.
He said he had inadvertently opened an email link which led him to the images.
Pornography has become one of the testing grounds of conservative Islam’s influence over politics in Indonesia.
“For the recent developing media coverage, I apologise to all members of the party and parliament,” Mr Arifinto – who goes by one name – told a news conference.
“I will continue to work for my party. I’m also going to continue to better myself, by repentance, reading the Koran and asking for guidance.”
The BBC’s Kate McGeown in Jakarta says the PKS was the driving force behind anti-pornography legislation, so that when one of its lawmakers was caught out, he was shown no mercy.
If it is proved that Mr Arifinto was indeed downloading a pornographic movie, as photography of his behaviour appears to show, he could find himself charged with a law of his own party’s making.
“PKS lawmakers are human. What happened to [Arifinto] could happen to anybody else,” said the head of the party’s Shariah Body, Surahman Hidayat.
Via Gawker.
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Comments (82)
marine249
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:29pmAdd your comments
Report Post »suzy000
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:25pmDo they also show mercy to the women and say they are only human too? Not in this lifetime! They are ALL hypocrites…Islam discriminates and should be outlawed!
Report Post »GMAN455
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:23pmsurprised he wasn’t looking at Goat Porn or something lol
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 5:31amActually, MO-HAM-HEAD had a camel fetish.One humpers,two humpers…He liked them all.
Report Post »Dumbsht
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:20pmLooking to the Koran for guidance….well that might be a problem as the big M was into 6 year old.
Report Post »nocomment
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 12:46amI wonder if ‘Dirty Old Muhhamed’ is still ‘tappin’ nine-year-olds in the afterlife?
Report Post »miles from nowhere
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:06pmThis person just made themself a huge zero!
Report Post »BONETRAUMA
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:01pmislamic love for one…I’m just sayin.
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:59pmHis wife may punish him by taking OFF her burka.
Report Post »DustinB
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:59pmsooooo…American politicians aren’t the only ones who are hypocrites??
Report Post »Beandawg
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:54pmDo as I say not as I do!
Report Post »tarbush
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:49pmBwaaaahahahahahaha! Rotfl.
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:46pmwhat ya mean islam allows them to watch porn? no im sure not.. wait women are less than human so maybe they can as long as they dont get caught.. funny same religion that just caned that lady for NOTHING
Report Post »Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:45pmHe’s probably also one of those super-PC people too who gets offended very easily. Very easily. Very.
Report Post »QuietRiot
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:44pmHow many Lashes does he get for this ? Common now sharia must have a law about having a tablet with porn on it to close to your junk in parlament. BAD MUSLIM …….
Report Post »Mister_Bill
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:44pmGet that Sharia law out and punish that man. If it is good enough for innocent people that are not members of the faith, the punishment should be twice as bad for him. If you cut off the had of a thief, what about pornography? Cut off what? Hmm … .
Report Post »lane829
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:44pmI already am well aware of just how hypocritical bible (or koran) thumpers can be. Religion seems to make a nifty crutch for loud weak people.
Meanwhile japan is being raised to a LEVEL 7 DISASTER!!! Stories of radiation in american air, water, milk and food are disappearing from sites before MY OWN EYES!
Japan needs competent help, whether they want it or not.
Report Post »Sam Brown
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:04pmYou need to quit worrying and look at the bright side. When the radiation gets in the food chain you will be able to use the bathroom with no lights on due to the glow. The greens will love you cause you don’t use energy.
Sammy
Report Post »BetsyRoss1
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:43pmYou are right brerrabbit! Stone her, since it’s a man nothing probably will be done!
Report Post »Sam Brown
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:41pmThose of you wondering what “is” is LOL means you is done been caught. Him and Bill Clinton should get along just fab LOL
Sammy
Report Post »Oil_Robb
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:38pmIfs Caneing the same as cigaring?
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:40pm40 lashes isnt enough. Chop his head off
Report Post »TexasBeef
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 1:23amThey are required to remove the offending member…It’s peepee whacking time!
Report Post »colascguy
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:40pmHis favorite Little Rascal is Spanky
Report Post »LogicalMadman
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:38pmtypical hypocritical Muslim
Report Post »sablegsd
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 1:23amYep.
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:38pmJoey Grieco needs to follow him a few days
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:37pm40 lashes
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:51pmWatch it, he may like spankings.
Report Post »ISLAMICO
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:53pmi AGREE BUT I WOULD GIVE HIM 80 LASHES. GOOD JOB.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:20pmYou don’t get it. Men are the victims here. They are helpless against the satanic powers of licentious women and whores who rob them of their virtue and honor by inflaming them with lust. These women are FORCING men to lust after them.
It’s shameful, truly shameful. I’m being foirced to be lustful right now. Then I will be forced to drink heavily gamble. I don’t want to. I am being forced to do it. And some evil witch must be punished for that.
Report Post »mischiefman2000
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:34pmwhat are ya lookin at Mr. Hanky?
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:53pmSock starch.
Report Post »parlayer
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:37pmAh nothing!!
Report Post »BrerRabbit
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:32pmIt he was a she….bet there would be a caning or beheading!
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:42pmExactly what I was thinking! they need to cane him.bahaba..ridiculious…what a hipocrite
Report Post »tarbush
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:54pmAnd the left, who is supposed to be pro-woman femenists, would be ok with it. Only if they defunded her abortion would they be outraged.
Report Post »GreatAmericanBeckFan
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:26pmIf not a stoning. There treatment of women is absolutely barbaric and despicable.
Report Post »Oil_Robb
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:36pmExpound on caneing?
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:30pmI was just doing research.: Kieth Richards Rolling Stones
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:35pmYou mean Pete Townsend! Anyway, audacity extreme!
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:39pmHe’s going to better himself by being more careful not to get caught. Typical bureaucratic hypocrit. I see nothing changes within ANY government.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:40pmResearch, he has to know what porn is, to ban it….Is he cleaning a smear off his screen?
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:42pmAs the Supreme Court said, “We will know Porn when we see it”
Report Post »At least he didn’t get caught watching gay panda bear porn, that would have been embarrassing.
TERMLIMITSNOW
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:42pmGod made porn for all to enjoy…..I say partake.
silentwatcher
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:51pmBut watching porn at work,,,particularly a government job while in the parliament? hmmmm.
Porn=to each his own,,,,but there is a time and a place for everything.
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:51pmHappy Ending’s?
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:22pmWhy NO public lashings for him ?
Report Post »nptden
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:23pmSo what’s the deal….beheading….or stoning?.. What’s good for the Goose is good for the Gander. Like all those ‘devout’ Saudi’s that slipped into Kuwait, and Qutar for a lil action. LOL. The mullahs just rape the kids in the Madras. Cheaper that way.
Report Post »Physicist_In_Training
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:29pm….Gross.
Report Post »Oil_Robb
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:34pmTalk about globalization first porn then maxed out credit cards…hell he almost seems American
Report Post »Oil_Robb
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:35pmHence the name…SILENTWATCHER?….lolol…J/K bud
Report Post »Anti_Spock
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:54pmThis is hilarious. You mean to tell me that Koran-Thumpers actually sin?
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:59pmCane him in public.
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 1:04am“PKS lawmakers are human. What happened to [Arifinto] could happen to anybody else,”
What? They all watch porn and could get caught? Cane him and sell tickets to it.
Report Post »ManThong
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:02amWhat’s the deal with these repressed Muslims? Mohammed had 12 wives and one of them was 9 years old – don‘t tell me there wasn’t major kink going on in the Mohammed tent.
If they would quit blowing themselves up and caning and stoning their women, they could have some fun before checking out.
Report Post »dawg of gawd
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 10:44amAnother family values politician standing up for restoring morality.
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