Ah yes, feel that Muslim tolerance!

This is what you get when a country allows both civil law and theocratic law to run side-by-side: obscenity.

Feb 17 – The official said the women were convicted of committing ‘khalwat’ or ‘close proximity’ between an unmarried couple, which is banned under Islamic laws that run parallel to the civil legal system in Malaysia.

Malaysian Islamic authorities triggered uproar last year when they sentenced mother-of-two Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno to six strokes of the cane for drinking beer.

Her case, which was to have been the first time a woman was caned under Islamic law in Malaysia, is under appeal and human rights groups have urged religious authorities to reverse the sentence.

‘I can confirm that Kartika has not been caned yet but I do not have any other details,’ the home ministry official said. — AFP