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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A young Muslim couple tried to speed off when Malaysian police caught them making out in their car but got into an accident, causing a five-car pile up, a report said Wednesday.

A police patrol car spotted the couple locked in an intimate embrace late Monday in their car parked at a hypermarket in Muar town in southern Johor state, The Star newspaper said.

As the patrol car neared them, the couple sped out of the car park onto a main road and collided with a passing car, causing three other vehicles to crash, the report said.

The unidentified couple, both in their 20s, have been detained and the man has been booked for reckless driving, it said.

Muar traffic police officer Lim Aik Sin told the daily that the couple have been referred to the district Islamic religious department. The man is a factory worker in nearby Malacca state while the woman, from Johor, studies in a college in Kuala Lumpur, Lim was quoted as saying.

Lim couldn't be reached for further details and other Muar police officers declined to comment.

Unmarried Muslim couples found alone together in a private place can be charged for "khalwat," or "close proximity," which is a crime under Malaysia's Islamic laws and carries a jail sentence of up to two months.

Malay Muslims, who comprise about 60 percent of Malaysia's 27 million people, are subject to Islamic morality laws. Chinese, Indian and other minorities come under the country's civil laws.

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From my understanding of Muslim law this is normal. Unlike the Christan right in this country they don't believe people of other beliefs should live under Islamic morality laws.

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Booger,

You are correct. They prefer to have different legal systems for different racial groups.

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It's not racism, it's religious separation. Two citizens side by side on a street subject to different laws is insane. Ask the victims of apartheit.

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Oldfart,

I may be mistaken, but it seems to me that it is a distinction without a difference. Indians and Chinese Malaysians are uniformly not Muslims. All ethnic Malays are Muslim as defined in the Malaysian constitution.

The constitution of Malaysia provides for a dual justice system—the secular laws (criminal and civil) and sharia laws. With regards to civil law, the sharia law courts have jurisdiction in personal law matters, for example, marriage, inheritance, and apostasy. They may impose fines and imprisonment.

The Constitution provides that "Every person has the right to profess and practice his religion". However in the case of Lina Joy—a Malay who converted to Christianity—the Federal Court of Malaysia refused to allow her to change her religion.

Note her ethnic - race - group. The analogy with apartheid is apt.

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