PAS lawmaker in Malaysia proposes Qur'an theme park

[A'isha]

(PAS is the Islamist opposition party in Malaysia)

http://www.themalaymailonline.com/m...s-quran-theme-park-to-promote-islamic-tourism

Bachok MP Ahmad Marzuk Shaary said Putrajaya should consider investing the RM30 million set aside to establish an Al Quran printing centre in a theme park, which would serve the dual purpose of drawing tourists and spreading the teachings of Islam.

“In Malaysia, we already have Legoland, water theme parks like Sunway and Tambun. The time has come for us to bring the world’s population to Malaysia to learn the Al Quran in the form of an Al Quran Theme Park Malaysia,” he said in Parliament when debating the 2015 Budget.

“I propose that this Al Quran theme park be divided into 114 parts just like the surah in the Al Quran. It will become the largest tourism and Al Quran learning destination in the world,” the PAS lawmaker added.

Ever have one of those moments where you're not sure if you're reading a real article, or something from the Onion?

 

[theprestige]

Ever have one of those moments where you're not sure if you're reading a real article, or something from the Onion?

Yes, but this isn't one of them.

 

[Slowvehicle]

(PAS is the Islamist opposition party in Malaysia)

http://www.themalaymailonline.com/m...s-quran-theme-park-to-promote-islamic-tourism



Ever have one of those moments where you're not sure if you're reading a real article, or something from the Onion?

In what way is this any sillier than the Creation Museum^TM/Ark Encounter^TM in Kentucky?

 

[theprestige]

In what way is it particularly silly at all?

 

[Porpoise of Life]

How strict are Malasian muslims with the whole "don't depict living creatures" thing? A theme park depicting stories from the Qur'an with only geomteric shapes could look very trippy.

 

[Psi Baba]

Qur'assic Park?

 

[Craig B]

How will they handle Surah 111? http://quran.com/111

 

[Tolls]

How will they handle Surah 111? http://quran.com/111

I see that as some form of log flume...

 

[A'isha]

In what way is this any sillier than the Creation Museum^TM/Ark Encounter^TM in Kentucky?

It's not, really. Well, except for scale, perhaps. And the "we have a Legoland, why not a Qur'anland!" argument, which kinda made me facepalm.

 

[A'isha]

How strict are Malasian muslims with the whole "don't depict living creatures" thing?

Not very, even in Kelantan.

 

[Porpoise of Life]

There's also a 'Buddhist Hell' theme park in Thailand. http://www.thebohemianblog.com/2013/06/wang-saen-suk-hell-garden-thailand.html

 

[Slowvehicle]

Qur'assic Park?

Nommed. For teh Pith.

 

[tsig]

It's not, really. Well, except for scale, perhaps. And the "we have a Legoland, why not a Qur'anland!" argument, which kinda made me facepalm.

A 12 foot Lego Mohammed at the entrance?

 

[A'isha]

A 12 foot Lego Mohammed at the entrance?

I'd totally go see that.

 

[Craig4]

Instead of the Wild West Shooting Gallery like Disneyland has, they could a stone the adulteress gallery.

 

[Craig B]

There's also a 'Buddhist Hell' theme park in Thailand. http://www.thebohemianblog.com/2013/06/wang-saen-suk-hell-garden-thailand.html

I always wondered what these were for. http://prankmaster-international.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/chinese-hell-bank-notes-prank.html Presumably they can be spent in the Buddhist Hell Park.

 

[angrysoba]

Will there be Rubber Dinghy Rapids^TM?

 

[Ladewig]

There's also a 'Buddhist Hell' theme park in Thailand. http://www.thebohemianblog.com/2013/06/wang-saen-suk-hell-garden-thailand.html

Fascinating.
After reading part of the park's description, which included "guards" of hell stabbing hell's inhabitants with spears, my first thought was are there not some Buddahist for whom being stabbed with a spear is preferable to stabbing a human with a spear. But the blog explained that the better souls (the ones' for whom tortuting others is more hellish than being tortured by others) do not come to this place - it is one's the weight of one's own karma that can sink a soul into this place of temporary, but intense, pain and anguish.

 

[dudalb]

Fascinating.
After reading part of the park's description, which included "guards" of hell stabbing hell's inhabitants with spears, my first thought was are there not some Buddahist for whom being stabbed with a spear is preferable to stabbing a human with a spear. But the blog explained that the better souls (the ones' for whom tortuting others is more hellish than being tortured by others) do not come to this place - it is one's the weight of one's own karma that can sink a soul into this place of temporary, but intense, pain and anguish.

Buddhist Purgatory would be a better term then Buddhist Hell.
But a great many BUddhist are horrified by that park,saying the descriptions of about a physical hell were symbolic and an allegory,not meant to be taken literarly.

 

[theprestige]

It's not, really. Well, except for scale, perhaps. And the "we have a Legoland, why not a Qur'anland!" argument, which kinda made me facepalm.

See, that part makes total sense to me. I suspect it takes a sepcial kind of affluent, secular Western snowflake, to imagine that Lego are more deserving of a theme park than the Koran.