Fatwa against Facebook and Friendster

Apparently the hot news now is about declaring fatwa. 

Fatwa this, fatwa that. 

Fatwa, eating babi 

Fatwa, you cannot see "goyang bor" 

If you don't have fatwa, you're not "saleh" enough to be called Muslim. 

Take for example, according to this article about a Muslim conference,

A conference of Islamic students and clerics called “Forum Bathsul Masail (BMP) Putri XI”, and held at the Putri Hidayatul Mubtadi-aat Islamic boarding school for girls at Lirboyo in Kediri has been widely reported to have issued a fatwa against the usage by Muslims of social networking sites such as Friendster and Facebook.

Ironically, the person who started the controversy, Harun, admitted that he too have a Facebook account. 

Such a double standard... 

The primary concern was, social networking sites such as Facebook and Friendster can provide medium (text, sms) that can lead to communication (i.e. consort) of young unmarried people (especially with foreigner) and this was defined as haram. 

I smell another fart fatwa.

Fatwa against bule...

I guess this will bring many muslimah teenagers "high" on Blackberry and FB technology to a grinding despair, I mean what else are you gonna do to pass the time, make toy cars out of jeruk bali? 

This too, can bring negative effects on TKI trades, as many of our loyal customers are "foreign" men who ended up marrying women like Siti and Inem. Many of which no longer Muslim once they are married, and then change their name into Madonna or Gabrielle. 

You don't want to do that Mr. Harun, otherwise Muslim Indonesians would have nothing to do while sitting idle, and this is haram. 

Ironically,
According to Google Trends, Indonesians account for the greatest number of users of Friendster by country: Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, United States, Singapore. 

While for Facebook Indonesia is fourth in raw numbers terms: United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Indonesia, France.

By my calculations, if 85% of Indonesian population is Muslim, there will be a substantial amount of reduction in Facebook and Friendster online activity in the next few months. (Means alot of pissed off and horny Indonesians). 

Productivity however, might increase as many of PNS (Pegawai Negeri) will actually be doing their job, Cops will actually solve crimes, and penyanyi dangdut will actually sing (instead of doing goyang bor).