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And the cruel punishments set forth in the Old Testament laws (notably death by stoning) for what the modern world might regard as civil wrongs or misdemeanors or no wrongs at all are all-of-a-piece with the severe hudud punishments called for by Wahhabi jurists in Saudi Arabia and the Taliban in Afghanistan. [2] Residents of the south are only exempted from five of the 186 articles of that code, those that relate to enforcing certain provisions of the hudud (religiously prescribed punishme nts). 58) Similarly in the period after the 1990 election, the UMNO government appears to have baited the PAS government in Kelantan into rigidly committing itself to setting up an Islamic state, introd traditional hudud laws and punishments, and applying Muslim customs to Chinese populations. |
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