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Interestingly even Muslims themselves are even affected... My friends often complained that their parents or relatives have "gone mad". During Ramadan some areas created a prohibition to open food stalls during fasting time, causing some women having period or those who are not fasting for other reasons suffered.. they need to walk further to find someone selling food. Interestingly, KFC, McDonalds and other western fast food chain were untouched by this regulation... the small food stalls by the street were the ones affected, ironically most of the owner are Muslims...

Well it is not exaggerated, it IS what happened. One of popular stuff years ago in TV were drags or effeminate men. Now everything is banned, content like that are now only in Youtube. Some cities did "gay raids"... There is a viral case where a woman chastised a man for hugging another man who is driving a motorcycle. They were later revealed as... siblings Also another viral case where a woman confronted a girl wearing "rainbow LGBT pin"... it is actually UN Sustainable Development Goals pin. People are really paranoid of LGBT related stuff. Many believed that LGBT is a disease cause by djinn possession, so need to be healed by ruqyah (Islamic exorcism). Yes the the face of tolerant Indonesia is tarnished by those from Hizbut Tahrir (now banned in the country) and Saudi sponsored clerics, they spread hatred and even will readily teach their followers label moderate Muslims as infidels. The trend of growing intolerance and strange religious based trends (e.g: vaccination and birth control pills are haram, women who became subject of poligamy will go to heaven, flat earthers, cleaning of own's house after visited by non Muslim, etc.) is amazing for the last 10 years.

Let's see whether Canada can sweep 5 badminton gold or not. I predict only four, with Canada losing in MS

Well our TV screen all broadcasted 7.4

7.4 earthquake in Banten, Indonesia Definitely the worst earthquake I've ever felt

Exactly, the creators might think: "Who the heck in this world want to play as Sao Tome Principe or Tuvalu?" Well, I do!

Not even a chance Unless it involves Indonesian athletes or we got reallocated medals, I think no one really cares in Indonesia

In the other hand, Asian Paralympic Committee has reallocated some medals after two Uzbek athletes were disqualified for doping... They work faster and more responsive than OCA

Today the Province of Papua launched the logo and mascots for Indonesian National Games. The bird mascot is a revived version of rejected original Asian Games mascot (with the same name), the other mascot is tree-kangaroo. What is funny for me the rings of the logo never really stayed the same in each editions. Originally three red rings, it suddenly changed to Olympic rings, then red-yellow-green rings, suddenly six rings, and now back to the tricolor but upside down The logo is based on the facade of the main stadium (which is also the same "origin" for the Asian Games logo, I wonder where creativity had gone)

Classic stuff. When niqab or burqa is going to be banned for security measures, some will against it with the views of "hey, a secular state shouldn't interfere in religious stuff". But they often ignore the fact of non-religious face coverings which are also banned together too.

Nishimura/Macias losing is a big shock

Oh yeah, I remembered @mrv86... There is another Indonesian coach... Not sure if he is still in the job but in 2014, there is a discussion about an Indonesian coach in Mexico whose name is Muamar Qadafi, just like the Libyan dictator

Our legend Tan Joe Hok did coach Mexico in the late 70s, but I don't know if there is any after him.

Well yeah I don't have any expectations in Pan Am showing badminton... Getting them in the highlights is already decent job. Unlike Minsk 2019 who promised them live but showing it delayed instead

Unfortunately she just lost But yes she has the potential, I watched her matches at the Pan Am Championships

Just got a glimpse of badminton in the highlights... Kinda disappointed there is only one channel in the Olympic Channel when they have more sports than Minsk 2019

Belalang

By the way I just get my old harddisk restored and found out that I have some of old Youtube videos of opening ceremony that has been deleted by IOC strikes.. Kinda relevant with thread title, which is a not-so-good news for IOC?

You would be giving a lot of heart attacks to Koreans if you stay in their house lol

And China is always lucky in badminton major events.. In Rio 2016 all people talked about how China might only win one gold, yet they still won 2 golds. I remembered I said to @heywoodu that China not gonna win MD and it will be Korea or Indonesia (in the end both of them came back empty handed). And so did 2018 Thomas Cup and 2019 Sudirman Cup...

But China managed to insert jade into the medals... Perhaps wood is going to anger environmentalists (and also not in term with Rio 2016 which was very concerned with climate change)

Reading the latest discussion about two party system made me stumbled on this video when looking for more information. And I can't stop giggling

Never know it was a thing

Why did they start clapping ?

I really wished no more of this because even Chinese badminton accounts are constantly posting this and forget the role of their account