KL Club Crackdown

Kuala Lumpur is a bizarre mix of mall culture, women in headscarves, fabulous nightlife, and Sharia law. But a recent crackdown on "indecency" in nightclubs is stirring debate over whether a secular constitution can endure alongside an "Islamic Department" that keeps watch over the sexual mores of Muslims. Asia Times reports on a widely publicized raid at one of Southeast Asia's most famous nightspots:

The music suddenly stopped, the lights came on and dozens of uniformed and plainclothes Islamic police were crowding the dance floor, shouting, gesticulating and ordering…Police from the Federal Territory's Islamic Department separated Muslims from non-Muslims. While non-Muslims were told to party on, Muslims were herded into trucks and taken to the department's head office.

Whole thing here.