Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, Malaysian To Be Caned For Drinking Beer, Gets Ramadan Reprieve
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The first woman in Muslim-majority Malaysia to face caning for drinking beer was reprieved Monday because of the holy month of Ramadan. Her family said she would rather get the thrashing with a rattan cane now and put the ordeal behind her.
Islamic officials had taken Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, a 32-year-old mother of two, into custody and were driving her to a women's prison for the caning when they abruptly turned around and sent her back to her family home in northern Malaysia.
"She feels like a football being kicked around," Kartika's father, Shukarno Abdul Muttalib, told The Associated Press. "She's so exhausted and unhappy with the delay. She would prefer to just receive the six strokes and have everything finished."
The Bad
Religion still has a strong influence on individual behaviour, and this can be enforced by LAW if necessary
The Good
The clerics in this particular case have at least reasonable people and should be appreciated for using their power of choice to at least set some kind of precedence to perhaps change this lunacy
The Ugly
Hopefully the the thinking of Malaysian clerics won't degenerate to the levels profiled in the following examples:
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