This is ridiculous !!!Should our garment step-in & stop this
from happening? Its Wrong to let our country women be CANED!! AND
WORST STILL IN A NEIGHBOURING COUNTRY.
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KUALA LUMPUR, July 21, 2009 (AFP) - - A religious court in
Malaysia has sentenced a tearful Singaporean Muslim model to six
strokes of the cane after she drank beer in a nightclub, reports
said Tuesday.
Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, 32, pleaded guilty to consuming
alcohol at a hotel nightclub in the eastern state of Pahang last
year, the New Straits Times newspaper reported.
"We feel the sentence is fair after going through the
prosecution's argument and since the rotan (cane) is provided for
in the law," Pahang Sharia High Court judge Abdul Rahman Yunus
said, according to the paper.
"The rotan is aimed at making the accused repent and serves as a
lesson to Muslims," he added, also fining Kartika 5,000 ringgit
(1,412 dollars).
The model, who cried when the judgement was delivered, said she
would appeal.
State religious officials could not be reached for comment on
the case.
Malaysia, which has large Indian and Chinese minorities freely
enjoying alcohol, has a two-track legal system. Civil courts
operate alongside state-based sharia courts, which can try Muslims
for religious offences.
good, this will deter all other women to drink.
