Are you all aware that judicial caning, is also a form of corporal punishment in Singapore? If I'm not mistaken this punishment only applies to male criminals between the ages of 18-50.

In 1993, Michael P. Fay, an American, briefly shot to fame when he was jailed for 4 months, fined S$3,500 and received four strokes of the rotan, for theft and vandalism.

To date, this has worked well for Singapore.

Note: criminals undergo medical examinations to identify if they are medically fit to be caned. Medical officers are present whenever canings are performed.

Al Qaeda and Malaysia should work together to humiliate Muslims everywhere with their bigotry. Shame on you Malaysia! Shame on you!

Let us just hope that this kind of Sharia law never makes its way into Indonesian law - because here the general population consists of around 90 % Muslims and, same as LAYMAN mentioned in Malaysia, modern Islamic scholars are many times over-shouted by fundamentalist ones.

Ans Simon, YES, this assaults are an affront to humanity.

The word seems appropriate here: what a pig of a man.

Assaulting anyone, but most especially women, is an affront to humanity.

But, then, I guess this guy also thinks that horses flew once, no?

The report title and the Jakim DG's statement are misleading. The DG cannot say most Malaysians accept the caning of women under the country’s Shariah courts, because there are only 60% Malaysians who are Muslims. The other 40% don't care since they are not affected by this law. Even among Muslims, they may only 'accept' because it has already become law but to say 'support' the caning of women, some one better do a real survey. I can confidently say that only a small group supports this law. Furthermore, Malaysians have no way to vote out Syariah law makers as opposed to voting our parliamentarians. Syariah law makers are in a class and fraternity of their own. What Malaysia needs when it comes to so-called Islamic law is a total shake-up or shake-down of the system and its agencies. Malaysia actually has a number of progressive Islamic scholars but they are out-maneuvered by the dogmatic fundamentalists. So, to say most Malaysians 'support' the caning of women is misleading.