As a non-Muslim living in Singapore, Vivienne Wee has no reason to be affected by Kartika’s whipping sentence. But she is. She felt so strongly about it that she wrote an article entitled MALAYSIA/SINGAPORE: WHY SHOULD WE CARE ABOUT KARTIKA? A founder-member of AWARE, an association of Women for Action and Research , Vivienne, an [...]
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Yes, look at Iran
TWENTY-TWO years after the Iranian Revolution, Zainah Anwar (the writer of the article which I’ve posted below) and I travelled to Iran. We met a wide range of people in government, academia, the religious cricles and NGOs. But the one person I so clearly remember was Zara, a young 21-year-old who hated the government, the [...]
The stoning law again, this time in Acheh
This story from the BBC underscores the painful fact that Muslim nations are returning to the DARK AGES. Indonesia’s province of Aceh has passed a new law making adultery punishable by stoning to death, a member of the province’s parliament has said. The law also imposes severe sentences for rape, homosexuality, alcohol consumption and gambling. [...]
