08 November 2009

Aceh Shariah Police Chase the ‘Immoral’

The young couple is totally busted. They sit at a beach-side park, near signs forbidding teens from sitting too close. He has his arm around her shoulder. She isn’t wearing her jilbab, the traditional Islamic head scarf. Just like that, the morality cops are in their face.

.... He separates the two and confiscates their IDs. Later, he says the team will open an investigation of the couple, especially given that the young man lied, at first insisting the girl was his sister. “We want to see how far this relationship has progressed,” Syafruddin says. “What they were doing could have led to something sexual.” [The Jakarta Globe] Read more [via Women Against Sharia]