Malaysian waitress who served beer to model faces caning

Malaysian waitress who served beer to model faces caning
Malaysia Sun

Wednesday 16th September, 2009
(IANS)

Six cane strokes await the waitress who served beer to Malaysian part-time model Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno. The model was earlier sentenced for drinking in public by an Islamic court.

The waitress who has not been named was fined RM 5,000 ($ 1,429) and six strokes of cane.

These are the first two cases of women being sentenced to caning in Malaysia where Muslims are forbidden from drinking in public as per the Shariah law.

The waitress, who pleaded guilty, has appealed. A verdict is awaited, The Star said Wednesday.

Kartika, 32, a mother of two, stirred a controversy by insisting that she be caned in public in the presence of her family members and the media.

The case hit international headlines and human rights and women's bodies have appealed for doing away with this mode of punishment to a woman.

The Syriah High Court judge who has sentenced the two women, besides four men in the last five years, is unfazed by criticism and says he is merely performing his duty.

Judge Abdul Rahman Md Yunos makes no apologies for his rulings, the newspaper said Wednesday after speaking to him.

'I am merely carrying out my duties as a court official as well as to society,' he was qouted as saying.

Abdul Rahman, 53, has been a Kuantan Syariah High Court judge in Pahang state since 1996.

Prior to that he was the Chief Kadi, the religious preacher.

On Monday he sentenced an Indonesian worker to serve a year in jail and be whipped six times for drinking alcohol in a restaurant.
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Comment:

What on earth is going on? Now the waitress gets the cane. That's her job -to serve drinks and food to customers. The 'crime' and punishment for doing her duty is - caning!

So how about the others? The Malay waitresses serving beer, alcohol at 30,000 feet asl. Cane them.

The Malay girls serving/taking/holding beer bottles/cans in 7-11... cane them all too.
Not just 7-11 - at every mall and the counters of these malls.

So where do you expect them to work? They are working hard for a living for heaven's sake.

Some work as waitresses for a living and others are directors of PERNAS, Genting Highlands. All these places are synonymous to drinking and gambling. So where do you draw the line?

This is slipping back and falling into the wide waiting manacing arms of the vicious Talibans, Al Qaeda and the Jemaah Islamiyah whose ferocious fangs gleam with joy each time they make a kill. Preacherman, she too was carrying out her duty - as a waitress as well as to the society. She is not as fortunate as you though - sitting high on a bench and passing judgements.

Leave these girls alone - they are doing a job - if they do not do it, they get screwed by their bosses or the customer, if they do it, they get screwed by the 'religious' cops who have nothing else to do but to go around preying on innocent victims.

These religious policemen should be stationed at the right places - to nab the rempits since they are so adept at nabbing offenders. The police force is struggling to clampdown on rempits who are a public nuisance - nabbing these rempits who are a deadly threat to the public, would be protecting Malaysians.