In the excellent Frontline piece I saw on this, she was not wearing a headscarf at any time. It’s not just scared Christians who get religion at convenient times.
She was perfectly happy to humiliate someone for money, and wear gloves because the substance was so harmful. There is no doubt she was tricked into it, but she did murder a man.
Could be the authorities in muslim Malaysia insisting on her being ‘decent’, just saying…
“Can we just all sweep this case under the rug, please”
that is obvious from the newness of the scarf, and what looks like her lawyer’s hand draping it on just before the picture was taken - but nevertheless, it re-enforces that ‘good muslim women’ would never do such a thing, and those without the outer markings of patriarchy might not deserve their government’s support
Right ? … You’re getting a lot of mileage out of that photo, I must say…