The NST reported today that Pahang-based syariah court judge Abdul Rahman Mohd Yunos had sentenced a second person to caning for drinking alcohol.
This time, the convicted man is an Indonesian, Nazarudin Kamaruddin, 46.
Recently, Indonesian descendant Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, a 32-year-old mother of two, was sentenced to caning for drinking beer by the same syariah court judge. [ See over 1,700 items on the subject in Google News. ]
However, after public outcry especially from human rights advocates and the global media, Kartika’s case is being reviewed by an Islamic appeals court judge and her caning could be carried out after the fasting month of Ramadan is over.
Interestingly, both sentences were meted out in Pahang, which is the home state of Prime Minister, Najib Razak.
August 27, Malaysiakini carried an Op-Ed from Agence France Presse (AFP) that highlighted the seeming rise of political Islam in Malaysia, and that the nation's secular status is under threat.
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