Canadians held in Malaysia for causing earthquake

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A group of western tourists who stripped naked at the peak of Mount Kinabalu last month will be prohibited from leaving Malaysia, as their act of "disrespecting the mountain" could have caused the devastating earthquake that killed at least 13 people.






The earthquake comes a week after a group of foreigners, who included two Canadians, two Dutch and a German national, broke away from their entourage and stripped naked before taking photos at the mountain peak.


Sabahans railed against the images, as they consider the mountain sacred and the act of tourists made “mountain spirits mad”.

Deputy Chief Minister of Sabah , Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan said that the tourists showed disrespect to the sacred mountain and will face appropriate action according to native laws.




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Malaysian minister blames naked foreign tourists for earthquake

 

[SLM]

When in Rome.......just saying.

 

[Sal]

Whether other people believe this or not, it’s what we Sabahans believe. When the earthquake happened, it’s like a confirmation of our beliefs.There is almost certainly a connection. We have to take this as a reminder that local beliefs and customs are not to be disrespected.

well then, could be a rough wait to get home...I don't see anywhere in the article where it explains why they stripped naked? anyone?

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[55Mercury]

lulz

 

[Sal]

lulz

bet they aren't laughing quite so hard now though...SURprize the fun's over

 

[SLM]

When traveling in foreign lands always make sure you find out where the sacred mountains are and ensure the moon rises in the appropriate spot.

 

[spaminator]

Naked Canadians blamed for Malaysian quake

Naked Canadians blamed for Malaysian quake
Postmedia Network
First posted: Sunday, June 07, 2015 10:43 AM EDT | Updated: Sunday, June 07, 2015 10:49 AM EDT
Five tourists who stripped naked on a sacred Malaysian mountain caused Friday's 6.0 magnitude earthquake, an official said on the weekend.
Two Canadians were among the group that went nude on Mount Kinabalu, Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan told the Malay Mail Online.
“Whether other people believe this or not, it’s what we Sabahans believe," the official said. "When the earthquake happened, it’s like a confirmation of our beliefs. It is a sacred mountain and you cannot take it lightly.”
Sabah, which is known for its incredible beauty, is a state on Borneo's island.
The Malay Mail says that on May 30, the tourists "broke away from their entourage of 27 at the mountain’s summit plateau and proceeded to strip before taking photos.
"They were approached and reprimanded by a mountain guide, and allegedly told him to 'go to Hell' and called him 'stupid,'" the Mail reports.
The country's Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Masidi Manjun says the five will not be allowed to leave the country until they face action.
“Only after will we kick them out and ban them from entering Sabah again,” he said.
Another official, Alip Sampil, told the Mail that the villagers in the ares were upset by what happened on the peak.
“They were so offended and angry with the behaviour. The mountain is sacred to the people here," Sampil said. "The worst part is that they were rude and disrespected the guide who told them not to do it."
On Sunday, authorities said that 16 bodies had been recovered from Mount Kinabalu. The victims included six Malaysians, one from the Philippines, China and Japan, and seven Singaporeans.
-- With files from Reuters
Malaysia's Mount Kinabalu is seen among mists from the Timpohon gate check point a day after the earthquake in Kundasang, a town in the district of Ranau on June 6, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/MOHD RASFAN)

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[tay]

Some humans have very strange and dangerous beliefs.........

 

[spaminator]

Canadian tourists barred from leaving Malaysia because of nude photo on sacred peak
Postmedia Network
First posted: Monday, June 08, 2015 09:31 AM EDT | Updated: Monday, June 08, 2015 05:31 PM EDT
Two Saskatchewan siblings in their early 20s have been barred from leaving Malaysia for allegedly stripping for photos on a sacred mountain last week in an act an official there believes triggered a deadly earthquake and landslides.
Malaysian police have identified the brother and sister as Lindsey Petersen, 23, and Danielle Petersen, 22.
Police accuse them and three other tourists from the Netherlands and Germany of breaking off from a tour and taking nude photos on Mt. Kinabalu on May 30 before being scolded by a guide.
The photos, posted on the Kinabalu Park Facebook page, have sparked anger among some Malaysians for being disrespectful.
Canada's foreign affairs department says it's aware of the reports.
"Canadian consular officials in Malaysia are in contact with local authorities to gather additional information and are providing consular assistance to the Canadian citizens as required," the department said in an e-mailed statement Monday.
Floyd Petersen confirmed his son and daughter are travelling in Southeast Asia, but wasn't aware of the allegations against them, The Canadian Press reported.
"Would you tell your parents you did this?" he said from his home in Wood Mountain, Sask., on Saturday. "I don't have anything to say. I'm just absorbing this."
Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan told the Malay Mail Online the earthquake was a confirmation of his people's beliefs.
"It is a sacred mountain and you cannot take it lightly."
Sabah Police Commissioner Jalaluddin Abdul Rahman told Free Malaysia Today that all five tourists won't be allowed to leave the state until the investigation is complete.
They face a 400 ringgit ($132) fine, if convicted, the report said.
At least sixteen hikers died in the 6.0-magnitude quake and subsequent landslides.
Malaysia has some of the strictest censorship laws in the world, including restrictions on obscenity and sex in movies, TV, books, the Internet and the press.
Some of the bans include:

• Pornography
• Movies with any sex scenes or cleavage must be censored or may be banned altogether. No same-sex kissing in movies
• Some websites, including politically-charged ones
• Performers are not allowed to wear revealing clothing, and can't jump, shout, hug or kiss on stage. The Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party called for Canadian singer Avril Lavigne's concert in 2008 to be cancelled for being too provocative, but it went ahead anyway. Numerous other performers have had their shows axed though, such as Beyonce, Kesha and Erykah Badu
• In 2006, the *****cat Dolls were fined 10,000 ringgits (about $3,287) for "sexually suggestive" moves on stage
• In 2004, officials asked Mariah Carey to cover up
• In 2003, Linkin Park were banned from wearing shorts on stage

Naked trend?
Taking nude photos at historical sites around the world appears to be a growing trend. Here are some other instances where tourists were chided for going too far.

• At least five foreign visitors have been arrested and deported this year alone for nude photos at historical sites in Cambodia, including Angkor Watt. This prompted the government to distribute flyers that contain rules for tourists warning them to keep their clothes on and not to touch monuments.
• In May, porn star Carmen De Dux angered authorities after she posted a photo on Instagram of her rear while riding a camel at Egypt's Giza pyramids.
• In 2013, tourists from Australia and New Zealand streaked at Peru's Machu Picchu in a video that surfaced online, much to the chagrin of government authorities.

Tourists allegedly stripped for photos at Mt. Kinabalu in Malaysia in an act an official there believes triggered a deadly earthquake and landslides. (Kinabalu Park Facebook Photo)

Canadian tourists barred from leaving Malaysia because of nude photo on sacred p

 

[taxslave]

Proving that being a nutjob has no religious boundaries.

 

[spaminator]

Outrage intensifies in Malaysia as Canadians detained for alleged nudity on sacred mountain
Postmedia Network
First posted: Tuesday, June 09, 2015 01:02 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, June 09, 2015 04:01 PM EDT
A man who launched a social media tirade against Malaysian officials upset about a group of climbers, including two Canadians, who posed nude on a sacred mountain is fuelling growing outrage in the country.
"Oh, Malaysia, why are your politicians so stupid?" Emil Kaminski wrote on Facebook, accompanied by some nude photos of himself on mountains. "Some deranged prick has linked earthquakes and mountaintop nudity."
Kaminski was referring to Malaysian officials who suggested the climbers' disrespect for Mt. Kinabulu triggered a deadly 6.0-magnitude earthquake and landslides that killed at least 16 hikers on Friday.
A Saskatchewan brother and sister, Lindsey Petersen, 23, and Danielle Petersen, 22, are among the group of tourists Malaysian police accuse of breaking off from a tour and taking nude photos on the mountain on May 30. Their guide scolded them for the shoot.
Police have said the tourists aren't allowed to the leave the eastern Malaysian state of Sabah until an investigation is complete.
On Tuesday, a woman was formally arrested while trying to leave Sabah for Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital, Reuters reported. Her nationality isn't known.
It's not clear whether Kaminski, who runs an irreverent travel blog called Monkeetime, was part of the group of climbers or even whether he has any connection to them.
But his Facebook post, along with a profanity-laden 12-minute video on YouTube, appears to be inflaming the situation and has provoked thousands of enraged comments — including death threats — from people accusing him of being culturally insensitive and disrespectful to Malaysia.
In the video, he claims to be in a hotel in the Sabah town of Tawau. Some of the commenters — as well as Malaysian news site The Star Online — refer to Kaminski as a Canadian.
His Facebook page says he's from Hong Kong, but there has been no official confirmation of his nationality.
In response to an e-mail request for an update on the Petersens Tuesday, the office of the minister of state (foreign affairs and consular) said, "We are aware of reports that two Canadians have been barred from leaving Malaysia. Canadian consular officials in Malaysia are in contact with local authorities to gather additional information and are providing consular assistance."
Postmedia Network contacted the Petersen family Tuesday at their home in Wood Mountain, Sask. The woman who answered the phone declined to comment when asked if the family had any updates on Lindsey and Danielle's situation.
Tourists allegedly stripped for photos at Mt. Kinabalu in Malaysia in an act an official there believes triggered a deadly earthquake and landslides. (Kinabalu Park Facebook Photo)

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Outrage intensifies in Malaysia as Canadians detained for alleged nudity on sacr

 

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Two Canadians arrested in Malaysia for posing nude on mountain
Postmedia Network
First posted: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 09:51 AM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 10:29 AM EDT
Malaysian police arrested two Canadian siblings and two other Westerners for posing naked for photos on a sacred mountain in an act an official says triggered a deadly earthquake.
Lindsey Petersen, 23, and Danielle Petersen, 22, of Saskatchewan, as well as British woman Eleanor Hawkins, 24, and Dutch national Dylan Snell, will be held for four days while police investigate them for public indecency, officer Jafri Abdul Halim told the Malay Mail Online.
Defence lawyer Ronny Cham, who has been in contact with the parents of the Canadians, told the newspaper the judge granted his request to have his clients put in separate cells to "guarantee their safety as they are foreigners."
No charges have been laid yet, but if convicted, they face up to three months behind bars and a fine, the report said.
On Tuesday, Hawkins was arrested while trying to leave Sabah for Kuala Lumpur, while Snell turned himself in.
Hawkins' father, Tim, told The Mirror, he is pleading with Malaysian authorities to punish his daughter for the crime of public nudity not the "unfortunate and tragic circumstances that followed it."
Canadian foreign affairs has said it is aware that two Canadians have been barred from leaving Malaysia and they are working with authorities there.
The four were among a group of tourists accused of taking off their clothes on Mt. Kinabalu for a photo-op on May 30.
Six days later, 18 climbers died in a 6.0-magnitude quake that led to landslides.
"It is a sacred mountain and you cannot take it lightly," Joseph Pairin Kitingan, deputy chief minister of the state of Sabah, was quoted as saying to local media.
Photos of the nude tourists emerged on Facebook, prompting a wave of Malaysians to call them out for being disrespectful.
Tourists allegedly stripped for photos at Mt. Kinabalu in Malaysia in an act an official there believes triggered a deadly earthquake and landslides. (Kinabalu Park Facebook Photo)

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[Blackleaf]

A British girl amongst them has been sentenced to three days in prison - which she has already served - and a £1000 fine.

When in Rome.......just saying.

It's funny how that only applies to Western vistors to non-Western countries. Yet foreigners who come over to Western countries never get told to follow our local customs. Oh no. That wouldn't be very diverse, multicultural and PC....

Some humans have very strange and dangerous beliefs.........

I know. We usually call them Liberal Democrats or Europhiles or Warmists. It's best just to ignore them and their eccentric ramblings.

 

[SLM]

It's funny how that only applies to Western vistors to non-Western countries. Yet foreigners who come over to Western countries never get told to follow our local customs. Oh no. That wouldn't be very diverse, multicultural and PC....

It has nothing to do with customs, it has everything to do with laws. So, yes, any foreigner who comes to a Western nation and breaks the law will find themselves arrested, detained and possibly charged. Just because in our point of view their laws are archaic doesn't make the situation any different, we do the exact same thing.

 

[Blackleaf]

It has nothing to do with customs, it has everything to do with laws. So, yes, any foreigner who comes to a Western nation and breaks the law will find themselves arrested, detained and possibly charged. Just because in our point of view their laws are archaic doesn't make the situation any different, we do the exact same thing.

"When in Rome..." does not normally apply to foreigners in Western countries nowadays. Many of them often get away with breaking our laws, "because it's their culture, innit?"

Many child abusers of ethnic minorities in Britain often get away with abusing their children because the social services get told that it's the norm for such people to treat their children in such a way in their home lands, so the social services turn a blind eye to it because, as Richard Littlejohn likes to say sarcastically: "It's their culture, innit?" Multiculturalism and ethnic diversity come before ensuring that foreigners from wildly different cultures abide by our laws.

Malaysia, though, isn't a Western country and therefore isn't afflicted with all that PC, multiculti, diversity obsession that we in the West have been afflicting ourselves with over the last thirty years.

 

[MHz]

Few too many liters of that drink made from some kind of root perhaps?

 

[spaminator]

Canadian tourist who got naked on Malaysian peak spent night in death row cell: Report
Postmedia Network
First posted: Friday, June 12, 2015 08:42 AM EDT | Updated: Friday, June 12, 2015 01:10 PM EDT
At least one Canadian and another tourist who pleaded guilty to getting naked on a sacred Malaysian mountain were forced to spend the night in death row cells because paperwork wasn't signed in time for their release, The Telegraph reports.
On Friday, a Malaysian court sentenced the group of four to three days behind bars, which they had already served.
Lindsey Petersen, 23, and his sister Danielle Petersen, 22, of Saskatchewan, as well as British tourist Eleanor Hawkins, 24, and Dutch national Dylan Snel, 23, pleaded guilty to public indecency. They were each fined 5,000 ringgit ($1,637 Canadian).
An immigration officer was supposed to come Saturday morning to sign the paperwork for their release and deportation, a source told the U.K. newspaper.
The Dutch Embassy — acting on behalf of the whole group — had booked rooms at a five-star hotel on the seafront, the report said.
"They cried and were terrified when (Hawkins) was told they had to stay in the Death Penalty Prisoner room. They can't offer any more beds as the prison is so packed," the police source told The Telegraph.
"At first we thought the girls would spend the night in the death row cells too, but then they found space in a normal cell. The girls burst into tears when we told them and were very upset. They were asking why they could not be freed, seeing as the lawyer had already handed over the fine for all of them."
Malaysian officials blamed the four tourists and six others for angering Mt. Kinabalu's spirits and triggering a 5.9-magnitude earthquake that killed 18 people on June 5.
Prosecutors said the group hiked to the summit of the mountain to watch the sunrise May 30, dared each other to get naked and snapped pictures.
Defence lawyer Ronny Cham told the court "their act had brought shame and ridicule upon themselves and their respective countries," the BBC reported.
He said the intense international media coverage had traumatized them enough and called for the group to be fined and deported, rather than jailed.
Police are looking for the six other accused, but some of them may have already left the state, AFP reported.
More about Mt. Kinabalu

• The local Kadazan-Dusun tribe believes the peak — the highest mountain in Malaysia — is the resting place of their dead ancestors.
• Its name, derived from the Kadazan tribe's phrase Aki Nabali, means the resting place of departed souls.
• It's 4,095 m at its summit and a popular site for climbers from around the world.
• The mountain, estimated to be 15 million years old, is located in Kinabalu Park, a Unesco World Heritage Site on the island of Borneo in the state of Sabah.

Tourists allegedly stripped for photos at Mt. Kinabalu in Malaysia in an act an official there believes triggered a deadly earthquake and landslides. (Kinabalu Park Facebook Photo)

Canadian tourist who got naked on Malaysian peak spent night in death row cell:

 

[tay]

A British girl amongst them has been sentenced to three days in prison - which she has already served - and a £1000 fine.






I know. We usually call them Liberal Democrats or Europhiles or Warmists. It's best just to ignore them and their eccentric ramblings.

Well call them what you will but I suppose we shouldn't sneer too much at them when a lot of people around the globe still believe in mystical beings and other superstitions.


Although I suppose we may have to intercede if they decide top throw these jerks into a Volcano to appease their god........