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Model and Malaysian Royals to Discuss Caning
March 03, 2010

Singaporean model Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno. (Photo: AFP/ Bernama) Singaporean model Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno. (Photo: AFP/ Bernama)
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Good,Bad and Ugly
6:50pm Mar 4, 2010

And my point is to never kowtow to the religious order and all other dictatorships. They just become stronger and take more. You will see that I am taking my love and marrying her in a secular ceremony in another country; and yes she has a different religion.

ChrisH
7:45am Mar 4, 2010

Thanks for calling me a hypocrite. We'll see what you will do when you fall in love. I don't mind being slapped a little tag on me. Just will never go to Malaysia. Was just illustrating a point.

Valkyrie
6:31am Mar 4, 2010

ChrisH - that was not a nice idea. Abandon it!


Good,Bad and Ugly
7:08pm Mar 3, 2010

Well Chris, you became the cowardly hypocrite by bowing to the religious wrong. Now it is time to stand up for your rights as a human and fight these nazis over their dictatorial commands. Ask your father and grandfather about something called the blitzkrieg.

ChrisH
5:56pm Mar 3, 2010

As I have married an Indonesian woman, but am Dutch, I have had to "convert". Not that I am a religious man, but I wonder what happens if my wife and me were to have a nice relaxing holiday in Malaysia. If I don't bring my "Buku Nikah" I will get jailed for being with a girl who is not my proven wife, but if I do bring it, They will see I am a Muslim and I will be tried under Shariah law if I have a beer??? Cheers!

Kuala Lumpur. A Malaysian model who was sentenced to be caned for drinking beer will have a royal audience today to discuss her fate, six months after the thrashing was suspended, her father said.

Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, 33, was ordered to receive six strokes by a religious court last year, triggering an uproar among human rights groups who urged authorities to drop the sentence.

Kartika was to have been the first woman to be caned under Islamic law in Malaysia but in a surprise move, three other women were caned last month for having sex out of wedlock.

State media have reported that Kartika’s sentence, which was put on hold pending a review, would only be carried out after she met with the royal rulers of Pahang state, where she was caught drinking beer at a hotel bar.

Under Malaysia’s monarchy, the state sultans — who take turns to serve for five years as king — are also in charge of religious affairs in their states.

“Kartika will be accompanied by her lawyer,” her father, Shukarno Mutalib, said on Tuesday. “We are not sure yet of the meeting agenda but the prince has reportedly said they will discuss the case, so there may be a decision whether or not to cane my daughter.”

The 33-year-old mother-of-two stared down religious authorities after being convicted, saying she was ready to be caned, refusing to appeal and challenging them to cane her in public.

But she won a reprieve in late August when she was detained and then abruptly released by religious officials who had planned to take her to a jail where she was to undergo the caning.

The government said at the time that the sentence was “too harsh” and could damage Malaysia’s reputation.

However, it has defended the caning of the three other women on Feb. 9. The women had all had children out of wedlock.

The case has fuelled debate over rising “Islamization” in Malaysia, where religious courts have been clamping down on moral offenses as well as a ban on Muslims consuming alcohol that had been rarely enforced. 



Agence France-Presse