Islamic hard-liner: Playboy is global icon of pornography

Playboy was targeted for prosecution by a hard-line Islamic group in Indonesia because it is “the world’s icon of pornography”, a prominent member testified today in the trial of the American magazine’s top editor.

Islamic hard-liner: Playboy is global icon of pornography

Playboy was targeted for prosecution by a hard-line Islamic group in Indonesia because it is “the world’s icon of pornography”, a prominent member testified today in the trial of the American magazine’s top editor.

The co-chairman of the Front for Islamic Defenders, who goes by the single name Baharuzaman, filed a complaint with police which led to the indecency charges against editor-in-chief Erwin Arnada.

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