Muslim Hardliners Lash Out at 3rd Playboy Edition

The third copy of Playboy has hit the streets and so has the Muslim hardliners bent on delivering us from the devious grips of pornography and nudity. Get a life, it's only a magazine!.

It seems that Indonesian Muslim leaders strongly protested against the third edition of the Indonesia Playboy magazine urging the police to take stern action against the editors of the U.S. based publication. This edition is supposed to be a bit racy!.

The July edition hit newsstands late last week with its cover featuring a woman wearing black underpants and grey jacket without wearing a bra. It makes me wonder if the front cover was of a man wearing only jocks or boxer shorts would attract the same attention. Probably from the female hardliners no doubt!.

Muslim hardliners described the magazine as more vulgar than the two previous editions and urged the police to take strict measures against the magazine saying that Playboy Indonesia was insulting and hurting the feeling among Muslims.

Indonesian police have formally named Erwin Armada, Playboy's editor in chief in Indonesia, and Kartika Gunawan, who posed in lingerie for the first edition as suspects for violating anti-indecency laws that carry sentences of up to two years and eight months in prison.

The magazine has been criticized even by some who acknowledge that is no more pornographic than other tabloids sold in the country already.

Muslim hardliners have vowed to take to the streets to protest the publication saying that by continuing to publish Playboy was challenging the Muslim majority in Indonesia and that Muslims activists would accept the challenge.