Malaysian Islamist party calls for 'haram' ruling against 'Sisters in Islam' group

by: Salaam

Mon Jun 08, 2009 at 09:15:38 AM EDT

PAS, a prominent Islamist political party in Malaysia, has asked the National Fatwa Council to declare the group Sisters in Islam "haram." Pas also asked the Fatwa council to investigate the sisters, and "to introduce special programmes to rehabilitate members of the organisation so that they could come back to the right religous track."

There are probably still some old Khmer Rouge training camps around Malaysia, where the CIA along with China and Britain and Thai intelligence helped that group 're-educate' inductees who went on to help sustain Utopia in Cambodia. The old camps could be put to use in the same way by the well-intentioned Islamists of Malaysia (not that I'm attempting to draw a comparison between the Khmer Rouge and this proposal on the part of the Malaysian Islamists or anything...).