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  • No more moral policing

    10/05/2018 8:34:23 PM PDT · by Steve Schulin
    The Star (Malaysia) ^ | Oct 6, 2018 | Zakiah Koya
    KUALA LUMPUR: No more knocks on the door in the middle of the night and no more breaking down of doors by the religious authorities investigating reports of khalwat or other alleged wrongdoings. Instead, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Dr Mujahid Yusof Rawa insists that what Muslims do behind closed doors is none of the government’s business. “Let’s say you commit something within your personal, individual sphere – I will not interfere. “For example, consumption of alcohol is wrong for a Muslim, but if you consume it within your sphere, then as part of the government, I will...
  • Malaysian Muslim lesbian couple caned in public punishment

    09/03/2018 8:35:56 PM PDT · by EdnaMode · 29 replies
    ABC News ^ | September 3, 2018 | The Associated Press
    Two Malaysian Muslim women convicted under Islamic laws of attempting to have sex were caned Monday in a rare public whipping that was slammed by lawmakers and rights activists as a form of torture. Lawyers and activists said the women, aged 22 and 32, were seated on stools facing the judges and given six strokes from a light rattan cane on their backs by female prison officers. More than 100 people witnessed the caning in a Shariah courtroom in northeast Terengganu state, they said. Muslim Lawyers' Association deputy president Abdul Rahim Sinwan said unlike caning under civil laws, the punishment...