{"id":7999,"date":"2000-06-29T12:10:57","date_gmt":"2000-06-29T04:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sistersinislam.org\/?p=7999"},"modified":"2020-01-13T17:12:36","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T09:12:36","slug":"joint-press-statement-jais-arrest-of-pub-singer-pt-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sistersinislam.org\/joint-press-statement-jais-arrest-of-pub-singer-pt-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint Press Statement: JAIS Arrest of Pub Singer Pt. III"},"content":{"rendered":"
Joint Press Statement: JAIS Arrest of Pub Singer<\/strong><\/p>\n (Addendum, 29 June 2000)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n We welcome the decision of the MB Selangor to drop the charges against those arrested.<\/p>\n This however does not detract from the larger issue of:<\/p>\n We urge the Government to set up a committee which includes representation from women’s groups, progressive Islamic scholars and constitutional experts to review the Syariah Criminal Offences legislation which has been adopted by all states, and to evaluate the record of its enforcement.<\/p>\n The record of enforcement displays that the weakest, most disempowered and marginalised in society are subject to prosecution. Last May, 17 university students were found guilty for “indecent behaviour”. They were fined from RM700-RM1,000 and sentenced from one month to two months imprisonment. Their offences were:<\/p>\n On the scale of priority, shouldn’t JAIS and other religious authorities concentrate its energies on more important issues, in particular the abuses that occur under the Islamic Family Law that endanger the well-being and welfare of innocent children and victimised women, such as:<\/p>\n Sisters in Islam Joint Press Statement: JAIS Arrest of Pub Singer (Addendum, 29 June 2000) We welcome the decision of the MB Selangor to drop the charges against those arrested. This however does not detract from the larger issue of: growing intolerance and discrimination against women in the name of Islam; the use of law as a mechanism […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistersinislam.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistersinislam.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistersinislam.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistersinislam.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistersinislam.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sistersinislam.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistersinislam.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistersinislam.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistersinislam.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistersinislam.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\n29 June 2000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"