BN’s Tasek Gelugor MP Shabudin Yahaya was merely expressing his view when he suggested that victims of rape should marry their rapists, Penang Umno Wanita chief Jahara Hamid said today.

Asked her comments on Shabudin’s statement to Parliament yesterday, which has raised a lot of anger, Jahara said the MP was entitled to express his opinion.

She said Shabudin based his view on his experience as a former syariah court judge, adding that “he has seen and gone through it”...