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Malaysia begins caning women for adultery

by 158 | February 18, 2010 at 08:04 am

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This type of sentence

for adultery is not a good

way of punishment but

still Malaysia does have

the right to set it own laws.

Yet, another type of legal

sanctions could be better

as punishment.

Last year the case of Kartika Shukarno sparked a legal debate over the powers of Islamic courts to issue such rulings, since federal law shields women from the punishment. Shariah courts operate in parallel in Malaysia but are accused of infringing on secular rights, particularly by non-Muslims.

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stejeb

at 08:19 on February 18th, 2010

Malaysia has just about the worst legal system in the world, it's made up from bits of British, Indian and Australian amongst other things. The federal system has no say in the running and decision making processes of the "Syariah" courts, but it changes from region to region on which and how much power they have.

It's the good part of having a secular system only in my opinion, but where Shariah law is entrenched there's little the outside world can do about barbaric decisions like this.