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PAS flays Kelantan Umno leader over sodomy remark
Published:  Sep 2, 2003 10:23 AM
Updated: Jan 29, 2008 10:21 AM

PAS today took Kelantan Umno deputy chief Zaid Ibrahim ( photo ) to task over his remark that the Syariah laws in the PAS-controlled states of Kelantan and Terengganu permitted husbands to sodomise their wives.

In a statement, Pas Youth Information chief Mohd Hanipa Maidin claimed that the Umno leader lacked the basic understanding of Syariah laws.

He cited Articles 16 and 17 of the Syariah criminal codes of Kelantan and Terengganu which state that sodomy "is an offence consisting of carnal intercourse between a male and another male or a female other than his wife, performed against the order of nature, that is through the anus."

"Just because the articles under question did not include the wife as a possible victim of sodomy did not mean that the act was allowed and not punishable," he said.

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