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Beer-Drinking Muslim Woman's Caning to Go Ahead
CNSNews.com/AP ^ | September 28, 2009 | Staff

Posted on 09/28/2009 9:29:09 AM PDT by kingattax

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (AP) - A judge in Malaysia has upheld a court verdict to cane a Muslim woman for drinking beer, news reports said Monday, re-igniting a controversy over Islamic justice in this moderate Muslim-majority country.

The Star newspaper's Web site and national news agency Bernama said the chief Shariah judge of Pahang state ruled that a Shariah High Court's verdict against Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, 32, was correct and should stay.

If the punishment is carried out, Kartika would become the first Muslim woman to be caned in Malaysia, where about 60 percent of the 28 million people are Muslims. No date was immediately set for the caning.

Kartika, a former model and nurse, was sentenced in July to six strokes of the cane and a fine of 5,000 ringgit ($1,400) for drinking beer in December 2007 at a beach resort in violation of Islamic laws. Islam forbids Muslims from drinking alcohol.

Kartika, who pleaded guilty, refused to appeal her sentence and was on the verge of being caned on Aug. 24. But the punishment was halted at the last minute following an uproar in the media and among rights activists.

Instead, the government asked the Shariah High Court Appeals Panel in Kuantan, the capital of Pahang, to review the verdict.

"I found that the High Court Judge had acted accordingly within his jurisdiction as provided" by relevant laws of Pahang state, Pahang Shariah Chief Judge Abdul Hamid Abdul Rahman told The Star.

"As such, the decision stays," he was quoted as saying.

He said it was now up to the Pahang Islamic Religious Department to implement the punishment. The department's officials, who are like morality police, routinely conduct raids to catch people violating Islamic laws but most perpetrators are usually let off with fines.

Kartika has said previously she is ready to be caned.

The caning would be done with a thin stick on the back and would be largely symbolic rather than aimed at causing pain, unlike the caning of rapists and drug smugglers with a thick rattan stick on bare buttocks that causes the skin to break and leave scars.

But activists say even a gentle caning raises the broader question of whether such Islamic laws should intrude into Muslims' private lives and whether radical Islam is creeping into the judiciary.

Malaysia follows a dual-track justice system. Shariah laws apply to Muslims in all personal matters. Non-Muslims - Chinese, Indians, Sikhs and other minorities - are covered by civil laws, and are free to drink.

Only three states in Malaysia - Pahang, Perlis and Kelantan - impose caning for drinking alcohol. In the other 10 states it is punishable by a fine.


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"thank you, sir, may i have another ?"
1 posted on 09/28/2009 9:29:09 AM PDT by kingattax
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So the muslims are going to beat the hell out of a woman because she drank a beer?

Yeah, that makes sense.

Paging the US State Department.

Paging Human Rights Watch.

Hello?

Anyone there?

3 posted on 09/28/2009 9:32:18 AM PDT by GI Joe Fan (GI Joe represents Real American Heroes, not a bunch of globalist drones.)
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"thank you, sir, may i have another ?"

Here you go:


4 posted on 09/28/2009 9:32:19 AM PDT by frogjerk (Obama Administration: Security thru Absurdity)
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To: JackRyanCIA
I have a response for the muslims' canes right here:


5 posted on 09/28/2009 9:34:16 AM PDT by GI Joe Fan (GI Joe represents Real American Heroes, not a bunch of globalist drones.)
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To: kingattax

Were is the Useless UN/Human Rights Organizations Outrage?)


6 posted on 09/28/2009 9:35:44 AM PDT by divine_moment_of_facts (“Cap and Trade bill tells us how to live.. Health Care bill tells us how to die.” Bauer and Rose)
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To: frogjerk

cheers


7 posted on 09/28/2009 9:36:14 AM PDT by kingattax (99 % of liberals give the rest a bad name)
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To: Blue Jays
They've seriously got some screws loose in those barbaric Islamic countries.
They love to be miserable and to impart their misery on others.


8 posted on 09/28/2009 9:36:42 AM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: divine_moment_of_facts

The UN operatives are too busy with their prostitution rings and child porn to care.


9 posted on 09/28/2009 9:37:00 AM PDT by GI Joe Fan (GI Joe represents Real American Heroes, not a bunch of globalist drones.)
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“So the muslims are going to beat the hell out of a woman because she drank a beer?

Yeah, that makes sense.”

Especially since booze is served there on every street corner.

“Paging the US State Department.”

I lived on Embassy Row in Kuala Lumpur for 2 years. There was a luxury apartment complex next door to me that housed about a dozen State Department personnel. Every one of them I met wanted me to go out “whoring” with them, or get drunk. Forget the State Department ;-)


10 posted on 09/28/2009 9:37:59 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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>> I have a response for the muslims’ canes right here ...

Is that an Oleg Volk poster? If so, it would nice to have his brilliant pro-second amendment talents recognized.


11 posted on 09/28/2009 9:39:58 AM PDT by QBFimi2 (Ve are the New World Order; ve bring to the world dis-order. Spike Jones, 1943.)
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To: GI Joe Fan

Amnesty International only cares when America is the one doing the perceived wrong.


12 posted on 09/28/2009 9:42:43 AM PDT by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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I believe it is one of Oleg Volk's!

Check this one out:


14 posted on 09/28/2009 9:46:21 AM PDT by GI Joe Fan (GI Joe represents Real American Heroes, not a bunch of globalist drones.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker; tx_eggman
Every one of them I met wanted me to go out “whoring” with them, or get drunk. Forget the State Department

Can you not do both?
15 posted on 09/28/2009 9:49:36 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves)
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To: JackRyanCIA

Muslim hunting will become a sport in America should they attempt a take over


16 posted on 09/28/2009 9:55:45 AM PDT by clamper1797 (If Obama were a paid Soviet agent he could not do more damage ... Sen Thomas Jordan)
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To: kingattax
Islam is so gay.


18 posted on 09/28/2009 10:08:38 AM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: JackRyanCIA

And it IS getting close to getting a “for real” Muslim hunting license


19 posted on 09/28/2009 10:12:18 AM PDT by clamper1797 (If Obama were a paid Soviet agent he could not do more damage ... Sen Thomas Jordan)
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To: kingattax

This is sobering. Even a state that looked to be on a trajectory with Korea and Singapore to joining the developed nations can revert to medieval barbarism under Islamic rule.


20 posted on 09/28/2009 10:13:48 AM PDT by colorado tanker (Barack Obama is an old Kenyan word for Jimmy Carter)
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