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| -Lurid Crime Tales- | |
| Malaysia to cane beer-drinking Muslim model | |
| 2009-07-22 | |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] A Singaporean Muslim model who drank beer at a nightclub in Malaysia will be caned, press reports said Tuedsay. A Malaysian religious court sentenced the tearful 22-year-old Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno to six strokes of the cane after she pleaded guilty to consuming alcohol, the English-language New Straits Times newspaper reported.
The part-time model said she would appeal the sentence. She was with her Singaporean husband in a hotel nightclub in the eastern state of Pahang last year when syariah officers raided the lounge, nabbing 20 other Muslims for drinking alcohol, which is forbidden in Islam. Her husband was let off, according to an earlier report in the Times. Noorazah Baharuddin, believed to be first woman in Malaysia sentenced to caning for drinking alcoholShe told the newspaper before the trial that "it was sheer bad luck" the lounge was raided. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 cane. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2009-07-22 11:41 |
| #8 The west v islam. We make drink out of cane sugar. They can a sugar for drinking. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2009-07-22 11:41 |
| #7 This is truely a severe punishment. The caning leaves long scars on the person, and probably means the end of a modeling career to the 22 year old woman. It is interesting that her husband was let off, but she gets the caning. A little sexual sadism perhaps? |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2009-07-22 11:35 |
| #6 Yep, they're pretty nuts about their interpretation of Islamic purity over there. My little brother "enjoyed" dealing with the cops over there for all kinds of bizarre reasons. The funniest one was when I sent him a "care package" consisting of typical USA junk food. Naturally, they had to inspect it before he could get it. Stupid little ol' me figured it would take a day or two, like normal countries. Nope! It literally took them three months to determine that the package of Oreos I sent was halal and ok for him to consume. Never mind that he was obviously NOT Muslim (his unofficial Malay name was "big white ghost", because what else would you call a 6 footer of European descent, right?), and was living in the Chinese part of Kuching. They had to make sure he wouldn't have gotten a cheap thrill or two by slipping some poor unsuspecting Muslim a cookie. |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2009-07-22 08:20 |
| #5 Good slice of life story, LR, I'm going to remember that one. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2009-07-22 07:58 |
| #4 A muslim model? Huh? How do you "model" barbeque covers? |
| Posted by: gorb 2009-07-22 03:52 |
| #3 Now LR - you know "Apartheid" only applies (and incorrectly at that) to Israeli's. Much like 'Racist' only applies to whites. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-07-22 01:18 |
| #2 I was in Kuala Lumpur in 2001 and was shocked by the newspaper ads advertising for tenants by religion. "No Christians" and suchlike. A year or two later, I heard about a raid at a club that I had frequented during my unwilling stay there. They hauled off a bunch of people, even foreigners, and gave them breathalyzers and drug tests by their hair. |
| Posted by: gromky 2009-07-22 00:32 |
| #1 I remember being in a Chinese restaurant in Penang during Ramadan, having lunch with a group of about a dozen managers from a factory that my then-employer operated there. Mid-meal, a restaurant employee came over and summoned away the table the factory lab manager - an ethnic Indian Malaysian woman named Tamayanthi - and escorted her to the restaurant entrance foyer, where several policemen were waiting. She then disappeared outside with them. About ten minutes later, she returned, sat down, and continued eating. I asked her what that was all about - she said that those were the religious police, looking for Muslims who were violating the Ramadan fast. To them, she had appeared to possibly be a Muslim (or - a convert to Islam by marrying a Malay - which was not the case) - so they "challenged" her. She had left her purse locked in her car - so she had to go get it, to display her Malaysian ID card, which stated her Hindu religion. Upon showing it, she was released. It amazed me - the idea that all persons were not treated the same under law. All the rubbish about "parallel" systems - Sharia running alongside civil law - is just that - rubbish. The correct term is "Apartheid" - and it should be attacked globally with the same gusto that was applied to South Africa. |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2009-07-22 00:22 |