Model fined, whipped for consuming beer

Quoted today from the New Strait Times, a Malaysian daily newspaper:

KUANTAN: The Syariah High Court here today sentenced a model to a RM5,000 fine and six whippings after she pleaded guilty to consuming an alcoholic drink in public last year.

In his judgement, Syarie judge Datuk Abdul Rahman Yunus said in the event Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarnor, 32, from Sungai Siput, Perak failed to pay the fine, she would be imprisoned for three years.

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Well, quite frankly, I've never read anything so sickeningly barbaric in all my life, how these brutish and uncivilized primitives ever justify lashing a woman at all, let alone for simply consuming a beer is totally beyond comprehension!

How much more proof does the world need that these vile Sharia laws set out in the name if Islam are nothing more than deplorably outrageous and completely out of touch with the modern age. My heart and empathy truly goes out to this poor woman, along with the thousands who are victimized, persecuted and oppressed by the tyrannical bastards who forcefully push these sadistic rules onto others with an iron fist.

Now, here's the ironic twist to all this: In 1989, Malayan Breweries Malaya (MBM) issued new shares equivalent to 10% of it's enlarged share capital to Bumiputra investors approved by the Trade and Industry Ministry. In fact Guiness and Carlsberg are two brewery companies on the Bursa Malaysia, of which a large percentage of investors are the same people who dictate Sharia law.

So, I guess it's OK to invest and make vast amounts of cash from beer companies, but if you get caught drinking their products, you're liable to a fine, a jail term and even a whipping.

There's hypocrisy at it's finest.

Finally, for all of you who condone this savage and diabolical law, you're a disgust to the civilised world.

Source:

New Strait Times
The Star