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June 0/5'I love greeting my guests with Acehnese hospitality,' said North Aceh Regent Muhammad Thaib
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'I love greeting my guests with Acehnese hospitality,' said North Aceh Regent Muhammad Thaib. 'But I believe that the effort to preserve local culture, such as female dance performances, should not hurt Islamic values.'
Thaib was announcing his latest sharia policy on May 25 to ban women from dancing in public because of the view that the body movements of a dancing adult woman constituted eroticism, which was against Islamic values. (By Pandaya, Jakarta)
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When discussing Aceh and other areas attempting to introduce sharia, we have to make an important distinction between following religious teachings and trying to recreate the society and culture of the Arabian peninsula in the seventh century, which was a feudal, male-dominated society.
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