The suggestion to have a demonstration of public caning by the Kelantan government shows that it does not understand the impact of such public humiliation, secularism and liberalism advocate group Bebas says.

"(Kelantan exco member) Mohamed Fadzli Hassan's claim that the public caning is done only to educate, and not to hurt, demonstrates the lack of understanding of the impact of such displays of public humiliation and voyeurism.

"Such people should not be given the responsibility to create and administer laws, particularly those that impose moral policing," Bebas leader Azrul Mohd Khalib told Malaysiakini today.