Woman to be whipped for drinking beer
p2pnet news view | Off Topic:- Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, 32, won’t, after all, be whipped.
At least, not until after Ramadan.
Her temporarily reprieve came after she was given the maximum penalty of a, “RM5,000 fine and six lashes of the rotan for drinking beer at a hotel,” says mysinchew.com.
Rotan means rattan cane, and the story has her saying she doesn’t plan to appeal: that she just wants to get it over with.
The shock over her decision, “elicited a media frenzy over how her punishment will be meted out,” says Muslim Media Watch, going on, “Malaysian newspapers analyzed in great detail the act of whipping, comparing the differences between criminal whipping and Shariah whipping, and even the dimensions of the ‘Shariah’ cane (it happens to be 1.22 m long and 1.25 cm thick, in case you`re wondering).
“One report even claims that Shariah whipping hardly inflicts any pain on the offender`s body, and that it is also much more merciful than civil corporal punishment, with the headline that reads, ‘A sentence not all it`s been whipped up to be’.”
Drinking alcohol is a religious offense for Malaysian Muslims, “who make up nearly two-thirds of the population,” says the Straits Times, adding:
“Offenders are prosecuted in Shariah courts, which handle cases mainly related to family and moral issues for Muslims. Most alcohol offenders are fined, but the law also provides for a three-year prison term and caning.
“Some politicians and women’s rights activists have criticised the religious court’s sentence, calling it too harsh.”
Caning is, “usually reserved for men in various crimes ranging from rape to bribery,” says the story, adding:
“But several Islamic lawyers have insisted that the penalty for Kartika is fair, saying she will be whipped with a thin rattan cane that does not cause severe pain.”
mysinchew.com – Syariah court of appeal to revise Kartika`s sentence, August 25, 2009
Muslim Media Watch – The Mother of All Sins: Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno`S Caning, July 20 9, 2009
Straits Times – M’sian woman accepts flogging, , July 23, 2009
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August 25th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
As horrible as this is, it’s still a slap on the wrist (pardon the pun) compared to what women have endured in other extreme Islam fundamentalist regimes, such as the Taliban.
August 25th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Is it any wonder that most of the world thinks Islam sucks??????
August 25th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
But Christian nations had similar brutal penalties for committing heresy during the middle ages. This is not an Islam problem, but a problem when fundamentalist religion and government work as one. I do agree with zebra though – these types of punishments don’t help Islam’s public image.
August 25th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
This vile act against one of your own citizens takes place against a backdrop of police and government corruption so thick you wouldn’t be able to swim in it. Come on guys! You too are tainted, only you do not have the courage and decency to own own up to it. So you take it out on a young woman who never did you any harm. Guess what – we know who you are.
August 26th, 2009 at 1:22 am
This woman has more brains than the whole Islamic religion. More power to her.
August 26th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
It must be a really popular religion when you need laws to make people follow it…
September 4th, 2009 at 1:29 am
I want to move this is horrible.