You Can Execute A Woman But Do Not Cane Her

Syed Saddiq, table a Bill in Parliament and get those laws changed. Stop screaming like an idiot. And while you are at it, decriminalise oral and anal sex so that gays do not face the risk of getting arrested and jailed for 20 years like now. I am sure you, for one, would be happy that that risk is eliminated and gays do not face any danger of punishment.

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Raja Petra Kamarudin

(The Edge) – Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Thursday denounced the caning of two Muslim women for attempting lesbian sex, a sentence that sparked outrage and raised fears about the treatment of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.

The women had pleaded guilty to charges under Islamic laws forbidding lesbian sex. They were caned on Monday in front of dozens of people at a sharia court in Terengganu, a conservative state in the east, prompting an outcry from human rights activists, who described the punishment as torture.

Why is Mahathir making so much noise? Just change the law

Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has denounced the public caning of two lesbian women in Terengganu this week. The Human Rights Watch, Syed Saddiq Abdul Rahman, and so many more have also expressed their disgust and said it tarnishes Islam’s image and so on.

How many women have been executed by hanging in Malaysia since 1957? Other than Mona Fandey who was executed by hanging on 2nd November 2001, I bet you do not know the total number of women who have been executed by hanging (in China they execute women by firing squad). But you know about two women getting lightly caned in Terengganu.

Remember Mona Fandey who was hanged on 2nd November 2001?

Actually, Islam does prescribe caning for certain offences — such as being a false witness — and it can go up to 100 lashes and not the mere couple of lashes like in the case of the Terengganu women.

Under Malaysian law, rapists and some other forms of crimes, also attract caning. But that type of caning is not like the one the women in Terengganu were subjected to. The two women in Terengganu were not really lashed but were given light strokes — more to shame them than to hurt them. The non-Islamic law type of caning, however, is severe. The cane eats into your flesh and most people faint when lashed.

The caning of the Terengganu women was sort of a ‘slap on the wrist’ but many are protesting it mainly because it carries the label of ‘Islamic law’. Once you call it Islam, Islamic law, Islamic form of punishment, etc., then people start protesting.

Actually, the protest is not about the caning itself but about the fact it is a form of punishment under Islam. And anything labelled Islam attracts criticism, condemnation and protest. If they had called it English Common Law instead of Islamic Law, no one would have said anything.

No one protests the execution of Mona Fandey but everyone protests the caning of two women

Take the case of 20 years jail for anal sex or oral sex. That is English Common Law and if Anwar Ibrahim were to suffer arrest and prosecution for Sodomy 3, he could go to jail for up to a maximum of 20 years. And if you are below 60 years old and the anal sex was not consensual (like in Anwar’s Sodomy 2 case) you could also be whipped maybe six times. And those six strokes of the cane will put you in hospital because your back will have cuts eating into your flesh down to your bones.

One stroke of the cane under English Common Law is worse than 100 strokes of what those two women received in Terengganu. But then the caning that rapists or sodomites receive does not carry the label Islam so no one cares how bad you get hurt by that caning.

Under English Common Law, which is what Malaysian law is, they can arrest and detain you without trial. They can jail you for life. They can hang you until you die. That is okay. But caning under Islamic law is NOT okay because of the label ‘Islam’ that comes with the punishment.

Yes, it is NOT okay to lightly cane a woman, but it is okay to hang a woman until she is dead. And that is because caning a woman is Islamic law while hanging a woman until she dies is English Common Law.

It is all about anything that carries the label of Islam sucks

But why are all these people making so much noise, especially the Pakatan Harapan Muslims and non-Muslims? And why in the same process insult Islam? Pakatan Harapan is the government. Just pass a Bill in Parliament to abolish Sharia laws and remove the power of drafting laws from the states. Pass an Act of Parliament that stipulates all laws can only be passed by Parliament and not by any of the states.

Apa susah sangat? Sebab apa bising sangat? Pass an Act of Parliament forbidding states from making any laws. All laws must be passed by Parliament. Lesbians must not be punished either by scolding, slapping, caning or jailing. If two or more women want to roll in bed that is their business and no business of the State Religious Department.

I cannot fathom why all these Muslims and non-Muslims from Pakatan Harapan are making so much noise. Are they trying to suggest this is Najib Tun Razak’s fault since everything wrong with Malaysia is Najib’s fault?

Syed Saddiq, table a Bill in Parliament and get those laws changed. Stop screaming like an idiot. And while you are at it, decriminalise oral and anal sex so that gays do not face the risk of getting arrested and jailed for 20 years like now. I am sure you, for one, would be happy that that risk is eliminated and gays do not face any danger of punishment.