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Growing list of don’ts
by Zainah Anwar
Unless we truly want to turn Malaysia into a police state as in Iran and Afghanistan under Taliban rule, laws that turn every perceived sin into a crime against the state will only result in selective persecution and victimisation.
KAREN Armstrong says any belief that makes you compassionate, kind and respectful of others is good religion. If your belief makes you intolerant, unkind and belligerent, this is bad religion, no matter how orthodox it is.
Close-knit family: Kartika holding her five-year-old daughter Wann Kaitlynn Muhammad Afandi with her husband Muhammad Afandi Amir and her seven-year-old niece Puteri Nur Rania Suhaini during the Hari Raya open house at her parents’ house in Kuala Kangsar on September 24.
This seems like great common sense to me. It puzzles me why those who insist that Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno be caned because that is what Islam demands fail to see the many injustices of her case.
She was a first-time offender; she showed remorse and pleaded guilty; and there was no violence in the commission of the offence. Under normal sentencing guidelines, she would have received an automatic one-third remission of the sentence.
But Kartika was sentenced with the maximum fine of RM5,000 and six strokes of the rotan for drinking a glass of beer.
And the Mufti of Perak, Datuk Seri Harussani Zakaria, questions why all the fuss for just six strokes of the rotan when Kartika should have been punished with the full “Islamic” 80 lashes.
And there was Datuk Rosman Ridzuan, the chairman of U Mobile, who was fined only RM700 when he pleaded guilty for assaulting his now ex-wife. Under Section 323 of the Penal Code, this domestic violence offence carries a maximum fine of RM2,000 or one-year imprisonment.
But I am sure those who feel Kartika should be caned are shaking their head and wondering why Datuk Rosman should in the first place be charged and fined for beating his wife, and why indeed should the state intervene in what they deem to be a family matter.
A person who causes harm to another he is supposed to love, cherish and protect is fined a few hundred ringgit, while a young woman trying to make it in life gets the maximum sentence for drinking a glass of beer – which she did not even finish, she said.
And just recently in the same Kuantan Syariah Court, an odd-job Indonesian man who spent RM3.20 for a bottle of samsu which he shared with two other friends in a moment of respite was jailed for a year with six strokes of the rotan. He is in prison because he could not afford to pay the RM5,000 fine.
STATE STAND ON HUDUD LAW, PKR AND DAP URGED
Monday, 22 December 2008 10:29
(The Star) – PKR and DAP should make their stand on PAS’ goal to implement hudud law should the Pakatan Rakyat win in a general election, MCA Youth Chief Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong said.
THE MCA DOG START BARKING WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT IS IT BARKING ABOUT MAY HE WAS PROMISED BY HIS BIG BROTHER CONTRACTS HIS BIG BROTHER WHO USED CALL HIM PENDANG BABI SO HE IS BARKING
SO LOUD THE MOST ANTI ISLAMIST PARTY IS THE UNMO’S PARTNERcourt merger would subject non-muslims to syariah laws, says mcaTHE MOST ANTI ISLAMIST PARTY IS THE UNMO’S PARTNER
why are you all doing this to, win the KT by election?,you all WILL never respect ISLAM AND ALWAYS USE it when YOUR cards down THE ASSHOLES LIKE YOU SHOULD DO SOME RESEARCH BEFORE U OPEN YOUR MONTH YOU EVER REALISE TO CREATE their attempt to drive a wedge between THE MUSLIMS AND THE NON MUSLIMS.TO GO FOR THEIR BLOODS WORST THEN THE MAY 13 INCIDENT .you AN AGENT OF THE MOSAD WHO HIRED YOU TO CAUSE PROBLEM BETWEEN PKR,DAP AND PAS WE CAN CALL YOUR HOME MINISTER TO KEEP YOU SAVE AND SOUND
is there an urgent need to make necessary changes in Shariah under the Quranic gaze so that it conforms to the moral fervour of the Prophet and the ethical vision of Islam is for we muslim to decide. Shariah is nothing more than a set of principles: framework of values that provide Muslim societies with guidance. But these sets of principles and values are not static , they are dynamically derived within changing contexts. Taliban misadventure in Afghanistan has shown to us how narrow adherence to the text and tradition takes us away from the real world. What we have today is the caricature of Islam being projected as the true face of Islam.this we will decide you dogie, anything we want to do you reject why?
THIS IS WHAT RAJA PETRA VIEW
Those who both support and oppose Hudud do not know one bit what Hudud is. Many years ago I wrote a ‘thesis’ on the matter, which was published in Harakah, the official party organ of PAS. No, I am no lawyer. I am not even a religious scholar. I just have a brain; a brain God gave me. And God gave us brains so that we can use it to think. But I wonder why others do not also use their brains that God gave them to think.
No, Hudud is not evil. Hudud is better than what we have now. But it can be worse if we want to make it so. And chances are the evil in man will make it worse. That is what makes the matter dicey.
Nevertheless, the issue is not whether Hudud is better or worse. It is about whether the majority of the people want it as the law of the land. That is what matters. And we do not care what 23 PAS Members of Parliament want. We do not even care what 148 Members of Parliament want, even if they represent two-thirds of Parliament. We care what 75% of 16 million Malaysians want. If 12 million Malaysians shout, “Let’s implement Hudud”, then let that happen. If not, buzz off and get out of my face before I really lose my temper, you political prostitutes.read the fullstory here
STATE STAND ON HUDUD LAW, PKR AND DAP URGED
Monday, 22 December 2008 10:29
(The Star) – PKR and DAP should make their stand on PAS’ goal to implement hudud law should the Pakatan Rakyat win in a general election, MCA Youth Chief Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong said.
THE MCA DOG START BARKING WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT IS IT BARKING ABOUT MAY HE WAS PROMISED BY HIS BIG BROTHER CONTRACTS HIS BIG BROTHER WHO USED CALL HIM PENDANG BABI SO HE IS BARKING
SO LOUD THE MOST ANTI ISLAMIST PARTY IS THE UNMO’S PARTNERcourt merger would subject non-muslims to syariah laws, says mcaTHE MOST ANTI ISLAMIST PARTY IS THE UNMO’S PARTNER
why are you all doing this to, win the KT by election?,you all WILL never respect ISLAM AND ALWAYS USE it when YOUR cards down THE ASSHOLES LIKE YOU SHOULD DO SOME RESEARCH BEFORE U OPEN YOUR MONTH YOU EVER REALISE TO CREATE their attempt to drive a wedge between THE MUSLIMS AND THE NON MUSLIMS.TO GO FOR THEIR BLOODS WORST THEN THE MAY 13 INCIDENT .you AN AGENT OF THE MOSAD WHO HIRED YOU TO CAUSE PROBLEM BETWEEN PKR,DAP AND PAS WE CAN CALL YOUR HOME MINISTER TO KEEP YOU SAVE AND SOUND
is there an urgent need to make necessary changes in Shariah under the Quranic gaze so that it conforms to the moral fervour of the Prophet and the ethical vision of Islam is for we muslim to decide. Shariah is nothing more than a set of principles: framework of values that provide Muslim societies with guidance. But these sets of principles and values are not static , they are dynamically derived within changing contexts. Taliban misadventure in Afghanistan has shown to us how narrow adherence to the text and tradition takes us away from the real world. What we have today is the caricature of Islam being projected as the true face of Islam.this we will decide you dogie, anything we want to do you reject why?
THIS IS WHAT RAJA PETRA VIEW
Those who both support and oppose Hudud do not know one bit what Hudud is. Many years ago I wrote a ‘thesis’ on the matter, which was published in Harakah, the official party organ of PAS. No, I am no lawyer. I am not even a religious scholar. I just have a brain; a brain God gave me. And God gave us brains so that we can use it to think. But I wonder why others do not also use their brains that God gave them to think.
No, Hudud is not evil. Hudud is better than what we have now. But it can be worse if we want to make it so. And chances are the evil in man will make it worse. That is what makes the matter dicey.
Nevertheless, the issue is not whether Hudud is better or worse. It is about whether the majority of the people want it as the law of the land. That is what matters. And we do not care what 23 PAS Members of Parliament want. We do not even care what 148 Members of Parliament want, even if they represent two-thirds of Parliament. We care what 75% of 16 million Malaysians want. If 12 million Malaysians shout, “Let’s implement Hudud”, then let that happen. If not, buzz off and get out of my face before I really lose my temper, you political prostitutes.read the fullstory here
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