Azmi Anshar

A DECADE back, a Johor magistrate court convicted and fined a man a ridiculous RM100 for surreptitiously snapping photographs of a teenage girl relieving herself inside a shopping mall ladies' toilet. To be fair, the outraged magistrate, who intended to impose a hefty fine, was severely hamstrung by the law's maximum penalty of only RM100. There was no provision for a jail sentence.

IN Malaysia, the last vestige of defence for Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, who might have lost the plot or whose position seems compromised and weakened, is to suddenly double down on a decades-old, cynical Pas ploy — branding fellow Muslim rivals as infidels or their actions as "haram".