INDONESIA, the largest Muslim country in the world, has a problem with babies smoking cigarettes.
Taking a deep drag on his cigarette while resting on the steering wheel of his truck, he looks like a parody of a middle-aged lorry driver. But the image covers up a much more disturbing truth: At just the tender age of two, Ardi Rizal’s health has been so ruined by his 40-a-day habit that he now struggles to move by himself. The four-stone Indonesia toddler is certainly far too unfit to run around with other children – and his condition is set to rapidly deteriorate.
But, despite local officials’ offer to buy the Rizal family a new car if the boy quits, his parents feel unable to stop him because he throws massive tantrums if they don’t indulge him. His mother, Diana, 26, wept: ‘He’s totally addicted. If he doesn’t get cigarettes, he gets angry and screams and batters his head against the wall. He tells me he feels dizzy and sick.’ But in spite of this, his fishmonger father Mohammed, 30, said: ‘He looks pretty healthy to me. I don’t see the problem.’
Ardi’s youth is the extreme of a disturbing trend. Data from the Central Statistics Agency showed 25 per cent of Indonesian children aged three to 15 have tried cigarettes, with 3.2 per cent of those active smokers.A video of a four-year-old Indonesian boy blowing smoke rings appeared briefly on YouTube in March, prompting outrage before it was removed from the site.
Child advocates are speaking out about the health damage to children from second-hand smoke, and the growing pressure on them to smoke in a country where one-third of the population uses tobacco and single cigarettes can be bought for a few cents. UK DAILY MAIL
Looks like this kid is overindulged in food as well.
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Islam is now the biggest threat to the English way of life and yet, the media seems unwilling to report muslim crime and the police seem to try and sweep crime committed by muslims under the carpet. And, in the process, both are handing our country over to those who would kill our culture and us, I do not understand why the establishment is so afraid of these muslims. there are 2.5 million muslims in the UK. Probably half a million are fundamentalists, yet, despite their small number they have a disproportionate amount of influence. The day will come when the English are simply not prepared to tolerate these extremists. And it is about time that ‘moderate’ Muslims stand up to be counted and speak against the fundamentalists, Them choosing to say nothing is the same as them supporting these evil, child abusing, woman beating, corrupt,,violent and arrogant fundamentalists who then go on to tell us we are the evil ones. These muslims are obsessed by sex and superiority. Then go on to behave like the sickest perverts on the planet. Moderate muslims, if you think you are unfairly tarred with the same brush, then oppose these fundamentalists. because when you don’t, you are complicit in everything the extremists say and do. It is about time you moderates chose a side to support. And should you choose the extremists then expect the indigenous population to treat you the same as fundamentalists.
All religion is cruel.
But islam certainly comes across as the cruellest. And that is made clear by the words and behaviour of muslims themselves.
It’s good to see the edl link. Someone has to stand tall against these extremist muslims. and as a member of the edl I hope these extremists understand that our patience is fast running out. And at 120 people to every fundamentalist muslim, they had better adjust their ways, leave the country or take the consequences.
I am convinced that our local and national governments are conducting some kind of experiment to see how far we can be pushed before we refuse to take the crap any more.