1. Malaysia woman scores rare legal win to quit Islam

Comment #181084 by ronar on May 16, 2008 at 12:08 pm

@mordacious1

Malaysia isn't such a religious fundamentalist country as those laws make it seem to be. She's not going to get whacked over such an issue, it isn't Saudi Arabia. Most of my family live there as muslims, and most of them do things that are considered 'haraam' (forbidden) in Islam, like drinking. Neither do you see many women wearing burqas (the ones you do see are mostly tourists from Arabia), and it is only the lower classes that wear headscarves.
The religious restrictions are annoying but not really of any grave consequences, although I'd like to see them removed, which I'm confident that they will with time.