"These Romans are crazy"

I really can't believe the things that I see or read on the news: [ Full Article http://bit.ly/VvGyC ]

Reminds me of the old days of people going to the principal's office for a caning.

Tut tut, hand caught in the cookie jar, well, in this case, caught in a hotel, raided and asked to pee.

Are we still living in the dark ages?

This happening after that other incident of a woman wearing pants in public? [ http://bit.ly/CH3M3 ]

"One of the main opposition parties wants Malaysia, which has ethnic Chinese and Indian minorities who are not Muslim, to become an Islamic state with sharia laws on punishment.

SINGAPORE RESIDENT

Despite the prohibition, Muslims can be found consuming alcohol in bars and nightclubs openly in cities such as the capital, Kuala Lumpur, where attitudes are more relaxed.

Kartika, a Malaysian citizen married to a Singaporean, is a Singapore resident. Religious authorities caught her drinking at a hotel in Kuantan, the state capital of the central Malaysian state of Pahang, on December 11, 2007.

Kartika said she had three glasses of beer before the hotel was raided in what she said was her second time drinking alcohol. She and the other patrons were asked to provide urine samples.

Kartika, who said she has yet to receive any response to her request for a public caning, is due to be taken to prison in central Selangor state beginning on Monday for one week, during which her sentence will be carried out.

She will be fully clothed and kneeling and struck on the backside with a small thin cane using moderate force."

We are all entitled to our own opinions (or are we?) and mine right now, is that of Sharia law being ***.

TM

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