Malaysians
face charges after morality police raids
Dozens
of Malaysians charged with sexual misconduct in New Year's Day
hotel raids, including a 54-year-old grandmother, will face court
next month, officials said Tuesday.
Malaysians face charges after
morality police raids
Dozens of Malaysians charged with sexual misconduct in New
Year's Day hotel raids, including a 54-year-old grandmother, will
face court next month, officials said Tuesday.
Malaysia's Islamic morality police arrested 58 Muslim Malays for
"khalwat" or "close proximity" under religious laws that bar
Muslims from being alone with a member of the opposite sex before
marriage.
The raids targeted 20 budget hotels in the eastern resort town
of Kuantan, the capital of Pahang state.
"We will be charging them in a sharia court in February. If
found guilty they face a fine and a six-month jail term," Ahmad
Rafli Abdul Malek, head of the Pahang Islamic Department, told
AFP.
Ahmad Rafli said the 54-year-old woman, a grandmother of eight,
was caught with a 38-year-old man.
He related that when his officers knocked on their hotel door,
they said: "How can we open the door. We are naked."
Malaysia has a dual-track legal system and Islamic courts can
try Muslims -- who dominate the multicultural population -- for
religious and moral offences.
Ahmad Rafli said the department was concerned that increasing
numbers of couples were spending time alone before marriage and
that this could lead to illicit sexual activity.
"Then we will face issues such as abortion and dumping of
babies," he said.
Malaysia's minorities, which include ethnic Chinese and Indian
communities, have complained over rising "Islamisation" of the
country that is threatening its secular status.
Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, a 32-year-old part-time model, was
sentenced to six strokes of the cane by an Islamic court in Pahang
in July for drinking beer, although the punishment has not yet been
carried out.
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Well when I read this article and wondering if Malay
police knows about the sex and adultery scandal of National
Institue of Education, Singapore.
This adultery case is one Malay Muslim Lady and
Christian Negro married man,
the lady name is Mdm Mazian Binte Muhd, officer from Graduate
Programme Research office, National Institute of Education,
Singapore and the negro is Gratian Machraga, PhD Student from NIE,
NSSE, Singapore. She has a family in Malaysia and behind her
family, she has committed adultery affair with this nigro man.They
even used to go to cheap hotels and meet almost every night.
Even NIE officials know about this adultery affair, they did not
take any action and neglect them to let them free to do.
Why this negro manipulates our money supported him to study here
but he commits adultery with a married muslim lady?Why this lady
dare to do with bareface.
NTU did face two scandals in 2009, why they let these
barefaced guys to commit another scandal in 2010? I am
wondering.