The women's wing of Pakatan Harapan is worried that Kedah's new proposal to allow Muslim men to remarry, without consent from their first wives, will be abused.

"If all it needs (to make multiple marriages legal) is to pay a fine of RM400, what is there to stop them (Muslim men) from going to Thailand and getting married to someone else?" Amanah Wanita chief Siti Mariah Mahmud told a press conference today.

The proposal was recently announced by Kedah Religious Committee chairperson Mohd Rawi Abdul Hamid, as reported by Sin Chew Daily...