*TO CANE OR NOT TO CANE?* http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/125582
Azril Mohd Amin It may surprise some who read these words that the title of this piece is also the name of a seminar and workshop at an upcoming (July, 2010) professional conference sponsored by the Department of Psychiatry at Kuala Lumpur’s General Hospital. Reading some non-Muslim vituperation over the caning issue, you might not guess that the issue is receiving the highest professional attention and scrutiny. Indeed, this factor in Islamic law of sentencing is insulted and thoroughly misunderstood by non-Muslims even here in Malaysia, particularly in a recent column written by one of the editors of the Star newspaper. Read full post http://thereflectiveheart.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/to-cane-or-not-to-cane/