{"id":3715,"date":"2011-03-11T08:16:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T08:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2011\/03\/11\/would-ifj-condemn-latest-attack-by-nasheed-on\/"},"modified":"2011-03-11T08:16:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T08:16:46","slug":"would-ifj-condemn-latest-attack-by-nasheed-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/03\/11\/would-ifj-condemn-latest-attack-by-nasheed-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Would IFJ condemn latest attack by Nasheed on Maldives media? | Hilath Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

Would IFJ condemn latest attack by Nasheed on Maldives media? | Hilath Online<\/a><\/p>\n

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Minivan News<\/em>\u00a0was the first to point out that the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the only credible international reporters\u2019 organization, as enjoying a\u00a0curious<\/a>\u00a0and unexplained relationship with Maldives Journalists Association (MJA) which is more known for its\u00a0shady<\/a>activities than interested in the\u00a0protection<\/a>\u00a0of free speech in the Maldives. The government of Maldives was diplomatic enough not to directly attack IFJ and instead claim that the MJA misled IFJ, as\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Minivan News<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This unholy alliance first came to light when IFJ took only the word of MJA and published a lot of factual errors about the current situation of freedom of expression ever since President Nasheed came to power. For example, the MJA claimed that Maldives had prisoners of conscience but there has been no political prisoners in Maldives since Nasheed came to power.<\/p>\n

The IFJ was later apologetic about it but, perhaps to save face and being a bit subtly defensive about it, the organization to date continues covering almost every media \u201cevent\u201d in Maldives, with most recently condemning Police\u00a0assault<\/a>\u00a0on Maldives journalists and even Policequestioning<\/a>\u00a0Haveeru journalists over the Facebook sex scandal\u2026<\/p>\n

Which has humorously made me wonder whether, since the IFJ seems so interested in even the tiniest things that happen to the free press in a tiny unimportant corner of the world like Maldives, whether this time around too they will censure the government-owned MNBC\u2019s decision to\u00a0censor<\/a>\u00a0the word \u201ccucumber\u201d from the Islamic Foundation of Maldives (IFM) television ad for Sheikh Fareed\u2019s \u201cFarewell\u201d sermon\u00a0tonight<\/a>\u00a0at the artificial beach.<\/p>\n

My understanding is that MNBC\u2019s Chief Executive saw that, for the average ordinary pious Maldivian moderate Muslim, it would be quite offensive when a Sheikh (or even a layman) bluntly and quite sexually explicitly utters the words \u201cAllah\u201d and \u201ccucumber\u201d in the same breath. Even a \u201cdecadent Western\u201d Maldivian like me, who respects all religions and people\u2019s beliefs and their genders and sexualities, found it offensive that a Muslim Maldivian could utter such unpleasant things, forgetting the reverence all Maldivians hold for Islam. Is something wrong with these Maldivian Sheikhs\u2019 minds?<\/p>\n

I mean just the other day they were quite offended when I criticized our local Salafist Ali Rameez for \u201cpulling fake Hadith out of his ass at will in order to brainwash unsuspecting Maldivian women.\u201d I find that more acceptable than uttering the words \u201cAllah\u201d and \u201ccucumber\u201d in the same breath because the first word is the revered name of God and the second word refers to a vegetable which has \u201coffending\u201d qualities (as\u00a0Minivan News<\/em>\u00a0also pointed out) given a Maldives cultural context because of its sexual associations as being a self-pleasuring natural toy naturally available in a paradisaical environment like Maldives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Would IFJ condemn latest attack by Nasheed on Maldives media? | Hilath Online Minivan News\u00a0was the first to point out that the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the only credible international reporters\u2019 organization, as enjoying a\u00a0curious\u00a0and unexplained relationship with Maldives Journalists Association (MJA) which is more known for its\u00a0shadyactivities than interested in the\u00a0protection\u00a0of free speech […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[171,172,36,8,177,175,34,174,80,176],"class_list":["post-3715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-video_graphics","tag-cucumber","tag-fareed","tag-islam","tag-maldives","tag-masturbation","tag-media","tag-politics","tag-press","tag-sex","tag-sexuality","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-XV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1226,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2013\/07\/25\/nasheeds-ultimate-insult-to-his-opponents\/","url_meta":{"origin":3715,"position":0},"title":"Nasheed’s ultimate insult to his opponents?","author":"monochromist","date":"July 25, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"At last night\u2019s MDP rally, the first MDP gathering after the Elections Commission officially accepted his candidacy for the September presidential election, Nasheed said (English translation here): \u201cIf one tries to clothe oneself with an insufficient piece of cloth, then one\u2019s nakedness will be revealed.\u201d Nasheed used the word \u201cfoogelhun\u201d\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "motion"","block_context":{"text":"motion","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/category\/video_graphics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2903,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2012\/03\/04\/burythewordinearth-president-mohamed-nasheed-of\/","url_meta":{"origin":3715,"position":1},"title":"burythewordinearth: President Mohamed Nasheed of\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"March 4, 2012","format":"video","excerpt":"burythewordinearth: President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives has been one of the most enlightened world leaders since his election in 2008. 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