Posted on 08/25/2009 5:30:26 AM PDT by Cardhu
Malaysia's prime minister has urged a Muslim woman sentenced to be caned for drinking beer, to appeal her sentence.
Najib Razak said that a formal appeal against her sentence would probably get Kartika Dewi Shukarno a sympathetic hearing from Islamic authorities.
"Kartika should appeal instead of being too quick in asking for punishment," Najib Razak told reporters in Putrajaya, Malaysia's administrative capital.
He added that the authorities were "sensitive to the implication of the punishment".
However, speaking by phone to Al Jazeera from her home in Malaysia's Pahang state, Kartika told Al Jazeera she had no intention of appealing because she wants the ordeal to be over.
She was first arrested in 2007 for drinking a beer in a hotel nightclub and was tried in a sharia court.
(Excerpt) Read more at english.aljazeera.net ...
ABC... Malaysia’s Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein told reporters that the caning could not have been carried out anyway since the Prisons Department has no staff experienced to administer the caning in compliance with Shariah laws.
“I have to admit we do not have experience in this case ... I cannot allow it if we do not have the expertise,” said Hishammuddin, whose ministry handles police and prisons.
It should be an embarrassment to them!!!!
She is an honorable Muslim. She broke the law and is ready to be punished for it. But that makes her dangerous; she may seek full forgiveness by blowing herself up among a bunch of infidels (that’s you & me, folks!).
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