"Some of these spies could be waitresses or even janitors at hotels acting as ... undercover agents for our religious department." Maxwell Smart joins the religious police (minus Agent 99). Sharia Alert from AP:
Religious police in a Malaysian state plan to deploy spies working as waiters or janitors in hotels to stop activities the authorities consider immoral, including sex between unmarried people, a news report said Tuesday.
The spies, known in the Malay language as "mat skoding," would tip off the Islamic police department about alleged immoral activities in the northeastern state of Terengganu, The Star newspaper reported.
Terengganu and neighboring Kelantan are two of Malaysia's most conservative states.
"Some of these spies could be waitresses or even janitors at hotels acting as ... undercover agents for our religious department," Rosol Wahid, the chairman of a state Islamic welfare committee, was quoted as saying.
Rosol said the spies would largely look for unmarried couples committing "khalwat," or "close proximity," a crime under Islamic law in Malaysia akin to adultery. It applies to unchaperoned meetings between men and women.
Those found guilty of khalwat can be jailed for up to two months under Islamic laws, which do not apply to non-Muslims.
The spies would be given rewards for each tip they provide, Rosol told The Star. Rosol could not be immediately reached because of a public holiday.
Rosol said the spies were needed because "accurate details are required for the enforcement officers to act, otherwise they would be pouncing on married couples," The Star reported.
He said the spies would keep watch in parks and secluded areas to nab dating couples intending to engage in sex.
The Terengganu state official's comments do not necessarily reflect common sentiment in Malaysia, a predominantly Muslim nation of 26 million people.
Earlier this month, the top Islamic leader of another state, Perlis, urged Islamic authorities to stop rewarding public tip-offs on Muslim couples who behave immorally, saying it was against Islamic teachings because it encouraged invasion of privacy.
Still, khalwat convictions are common in the country. In one of the most famous cases, a 21-year-old Malaysian Muslim woman was fined 1,200 ringgit (US$333; €278) last year after she was caught by the moral police in an Argentine soccer player's bedroom.
In October, Islamic officials stormed the home of a retired American couple living on a Malaysian island resort on suspicion of khalwat. The incident embarrassed Malaysia, which is seeking to woo tourists and persuade expatriates to set up second homes in the country.
It is not clear why the couple, who are not Muslims, were targeted.
You've got to love the control freaks in Islam. What's next...no breathing? It's the Russian KGB all over again.
So much for loving your neighbor. (No pun intended.)
The spies would be given rewards for each tip they provide
Sounds like a greed-based witch-hunt in the making. The "spies" will be accusing everyone and their mother of "immorality" if they'll be paid to do so.
The incident embarrassed Malaysia, which is seeking to woo tourists and persuade expatriates to set up second homes in the country.
Screw Malaysia. Central America has better fishing and cheaper airfares. Ninety five plus percent Catholic. Genuinely nice people. If you want to see a well run airport, fly to Belize City.
Unchaperoned meetings between men and women are just fine.
And these 7th century throwbacks want to us to import their "1984" (Orwell) police state?
The more you read and hear what they do, the more determined one becomes to keep this idiocy out of our countries.
What do the Islamic religous police do when they want sex?....Oh they have each other....riiiight...
Is this a religion or a rule which opposes every human desire and civilised way of life. I mean whatever the rest of world likes and follows and falls in a civlised behaviour ,Islam seems to oppose.I guess it really is a sick religion which opposes everything.
I guess soon they will oppose employment also.
"I guess soon they will oppose employment also."
Posted by: Indiana_jones
I thought they already did oppose employment - that's why so many of them live off the social benefits given to them by our governments out of our tax money !
"I thought they already did oppose employment"
...COULD BE why they continually kill those who are trying just to live....The Muslims do kill a great many people just doing their jobs...ice cream vendors,journalists, doctors, teachers,barbers,vegetable vendors, newspaper printers, shop owners, firemen, ambulance drivers,street sweepers,priests, nuns, politicians,and even garbage collectors....why would Muslims kill garbage collectors?....
Exsgtbrown,
Because they can. : (
I'd like someone to catch Dinesh D'Souza in sweet flagrante delicto.
Who the hell would want to go to corrupt, reprssive, fanataical, ecologically devastated, oil palm-rich, MALAYSIA?????
Certainly not I.
Yuck.
"He said the spies would keep watch in parks and secluded areas to nab dating couples intending to engage in sex."
....A wise Muslim will come to trust only his right hand.....
People! You are witnessing first-hand a country transitioning, by a certain ideology, from being relatively progressive and open to regressive and repressive. You are seeing another Iraq in the making. I pity the neighbors of Malaysia.
of course: Malaysia had been a colony of the UK's for over a century; but in fact it had been an Islamicized part of the globe for centuries prior to its becoming a colony. Malaysia was Islamic longer than it was influenced by western civilization.
You seem not to understand that Malaysia as a colony underwent ideological changes due to western influences that depended on western influences. With western influence fading from memory there, Islam is reasserting itself there. Malaysia's "moderate" Islamic status was therefore merely a temporary stop during its history.
If you listen to speeches made by Mahathir during the 1990s his drastic hostility to the west was very Arab-like--very ISLAMIC. Malaysia is not in its own view regressing. Malaysians, it appears, probably feel that hard-core Islam is their nation's DESTINY and always was.
The same may very well apply to much of Indonesia too.
The normals of Malaysia should send out armed decoys to make-out in dark out-of-the-way places. When these self-righteous bastards attempt to apply the rod and whatever else they're armed with the decoys should silence them.
"....A wise Muslim will come to trust only his right hand....." Posted by: exsgtbrown
Maybe that explains why Michael Jackson is rumoured to have followed his brother into Islam. Islam is the perfect religion for a "man" who chases little boys while wearing one glove and singing "Beat it"!
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On a more serious note...
"In October, Islamic officials stormed the home of a retired American couple living on a Malaysian island resort on suspicion of khalwat. The incident embarrassed Malaysia, which is seeking to woo tourists and persuade expatriates to set up second homes in the country.
It is not clear why the couple, who are not Muslims, were targeted"
Duh???? They're Americans! They can be milked for a lot of money.
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Uh oh! "milked"... re: exsgtbrown's post quoted above... No pun intended!