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Malaysia Busts 104 for Premarital Sex

Morality cops raid budget hotels in New Year's crackdown

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 4, 2010 7:21 AM CST

(Newser) – Malaysian morality police burst into budget hotels just before dawn on New Year's Day, and arrested 52 unmarried Muslim couples, officials announced today. The couples, most of them students or young factory workers, could face fines and up to two years in prison.

Malaysia’s Islamic Shariah law forbids “khalwat” or “close proximity,” defined as unmarried couples being alone together in a private place. But the law only applies to Muslims, not the country’s Christian, Buddhist, and Hindu minorities.

Malaysian morality police didn't heed the sign.
Malaysian morality police didn't heed the sign.   (Shutterstock)
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Ucantusethatname
Jan 10, 2010 12:15 PM CST
As Professor Irvwin Corey used to say, "Sex before marriage is okay--as long as it does not interrupt the ceremony."
flightofphoenix1973
Jan 9, 2010 12:45 PM CST
Absolutely ridiculous!!!!! I know a lot of people who would be in jail right now.
Sayyiduna
Jan 6, 2010 7:14 AM CST
DontLikeYou, almost everyone who has a secular college education and has taken a literature class has not only read and studied the Koran, but they may have even written a report on it or discussed it. You wouldn't know anything about that though, would you?

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