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We Don't Like Holding Hands and Pitching Woo

Charles Oliver | 7.3.2003 12:00 AM

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About 30 couples in the Malaysian city of Ipoh have been arrested and fined $7.90 each for holding hands in public. It's part of an effort by local Muslims to keep the city "morally clean." So far, none of the couples that who been busted are Muslim.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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