Cows in a conservative Malaysian state could be played Qur’anic recitals in the hope it will help them relax and improve the quality of their beef, a senior official said Thursday. Che Abdullah Mat Nawi, a member of the executive council in Kelantan state, put the idea forward in the hope that it will be taken up by cattle farmers in the rural state. The influential Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party is in charge of the state legislature in Kelantan, in the north of the Muslim-majority country, and has previously attracted controversy for promoting tough Islamic laws. PAS has been pushing to introduce a tough Islamic criminal code, known as hudud, in Kelantan that includes penalties such as amputations for theft and stoning to death for adultery. In 2015 the state assembly passed a law mandating the hudud but it has not been implemented as the federal constitution forbids it.

Source: Punch April 05, 2018 20:26 UTC