The New Arab Voice Silencing love: How the religious police controls the most intimate moments of life in Malaysia
Jan 16, 2020
10:33
Episode one:
Reporting an adultery? In Malaysia, there's an app for that, apparently.
In the early hours of a December morning in 2016, A Malaysian man was found dead, lying face down at the foot of an apartment complex in the central state of Selangor. He had jumped from the fourth floor of a high-rise building, leaving a woman who would later admit to being the man’s lover, severely distressed.
As later reported by the country’s media, he was fleeing from the Malaysian religious police. Officers had gone out on that night to catch unsuspecting lovers who had broken the country’s Islamic laws, which prohibit extra-marital sex, and would rather face death than public shame.
In this episode of the New Arab Voice podcast, we’ll be exploring the ways in which Malaysians are affected by the workings of the tech-savvy mysterious religious police, and how citizens have developed ways to outsmart it.
(Produced by Gaia Caramazza, Music by Omar al-Fil @elepheel, Research by Taufiq Wan)
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Reporting an adultery? In Malaysia, there's an app for that, apparently.
In the early hours of a December morning in 2016, A Malaysian man was found dead, lying face down at the foot of an apartment complex in the central state of Selangor. He had jumped from the fourth floor of a high-rise building, leaving a woman who would later admit to being the man’s lover, severely distressed.
As later reported by the country’s media, he was fleeing from the Malaysian religious police. Officers had gone out on that night to catch unsuspecting lovers who had broken the country’s Islamic laws, which prohibit extra-marital sex, and would rather face death than public shame.
In this episode of the New Arab Voice podcast, we’ll be exploring the ways in which Malaysians are affected by the workings of the tech-savvy mysterious religious police, and how citizens have developed ways to outsmart it.
(Produced by Gaia Caramazza, Music by Omar al-Fil @elepheel, Research by Taufiq Wan)
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https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english
https://www.facebook.com/AlAraby.en/
https://twitter.com/The_NewArab
https://www.instagram.com/thenewarab/
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtTSYCBRRUStmL2oQLaqbDQ
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