Does it Happen Elsewhere?

For the Muslims, if you are not married, you cannot be caught together in a room with a male counterpart who is not a direct sibling. If you are, then you would be caught just like this unfortunate women in Kuantan, a town in Muslim Malaysia.

I took this from the online STAR of Malaysia. It was written by Nik Naizi Husin.

"A woman sat on a mere 20cm-wide ledge outside a window on the fourth floor of a hotel here in an attempt to evade being caught during a Religious Department raid.

Apparently, her 28-year-old companion had asked her to hide when department officers knocked on the door of their room yesterday.In safe hands: The woman is carried into the room by the raiding officers at the hotel in Kuantan yesterday.

Upon opening the door, the man told the raiding team that he was alone in the room. However, the officers noticed a bra and a pair of women’s shoes there.

The team was at the hotel in Jalan Wong Ah Jang here to conduct Ops Insaf, a New Year raid that was held from midnight to 9am yesterday,

An officer subsequently spotted the 20-year-old sitting on the ledge when he parted the curtains and opened the sliding window.

When the team asked her to come back into the room, she refused and started crying.

Worried about her precarious position, the officer asked her boyfriend to coax her.

Later, the woman said she thought she had a chance to escape from the raid.
Danger level: The 20-year-old perched dangerously on the fourth floor window ledge as a raiding team broke into the room.

The Chief enforcement officer chief Ahmad who led the anti-vice team comprising 30 department officers and 60 volunteers [Imagine this number to catch two people!], said such incidents were “nothing new” because offenders did not want to face the music.

“They know that they are not married but they still want to sleep together which is an offence according to Islam,” he said.

“Our intention is to curb such activities and the punishment is meant to teach them a lesson,” he said.

They could be fined up to RM1,000 or jailed six months or both under an enactment on religion and customs."

With these kind of things happening in Malaysia,we are going to have a dent in all the national efforts to attract tourists to Malaysia, be it for "Malaysia-My Second Home" or even "Medical Tourism-Malaysia".

Malaysia has always been a nation that is uncertain of herself. On the one hand, she wants to be seen as a moderate Muslim nation; on the other hand, she allow such 'unspoken' things to happen.

Does it happen elsewhere?