September 23, 2011
Note: I received a following essay from Terence Netto around e-mail. The heavily edited version appears in Malaysiakini today.
In a interest of clarity as well as fairness, we have concluded to horde his strange version upon this blog so which a philosophical underpinnings as well as a subtlety of his message have been not lost. Furthermore we regularly apply oneself a integrity of a writer, although we infrequently might not determine with Netto's views upon contemporary issues. But we strongly believe which he is entitled to his opinions.
I, therefore, have wish in sharing this Netto piece with we all, my readers as well as commenters. In return, we expect an intelligent as well as rational sell of views upon Hudud. Please suspend all preconceived ideas as well as prejudices about Hukum Hudud.
The Kelantan state government, in my view, should deliberate a Federal Government as well as a Council of Malay Rulers prior to going forward with a pass of Hukum Hudud.
Tok Guru Nik Aziz as well as his cohorts should know which Kelantan is not an island onto itself. It exists as partial of Malaysia, as well as what they do in a state touches Malaysia as total as well as influences a perception of a rest of universe about who we have been as a nation as well as as 1People. It affects a domestic as well as economic climate, generally a inflow of unfamiliar direct investment in to a country.
I am gratified which Bishop Paul has taken a nuanced position upon Hudud. In my humble opinion, we should acquire if a Federal Government should to do a same for all Muslims in Malaysia.
After all, a constitution protects all Malaysians as well as opposite religions in this country. There is freedom of worship.! Let us not politicise this matter.Din Merican
Bishop Paul's nuanced position upon Hudud
Catholic prelate, who subscribes to a long-wave theory of history, says it is unwise to forestall Muslims from Syariah if which is what they manifestly desire.
By Terence Netto
The reignited discuss over a implementation of hudud law in Kelantan has drawn a nuanced reply from what during initial peek would be considered an unexpected quarter.
Catholic Bishop Dr Paul Tan Chee Ing (left), in his remarks made to Malaysiakini today, hold onward upon a theme as well as has come up with a position he thinks is calibrated to meet a challenges a subject of Islam poses to Malaysian society.
"One would think we should miss a presumption to weigh-in upon a discussion, being non-Muslim as well as belonging to a sacrament which subscribes to a separation of a physical from a religious spheres," being a titular head of Catholics in a Melaka-Johor diocese.
"But Islam is, above all, a domestic subject as well as await for syariah, of which hudud is a part, is an obligation for a Muslim. Therefore a non-Muslim citizen such as me as well as a religious leader during which ought to have a contend upon this matter," asserted a Jesuit-trained prelate.
"I contend it's time to concede Muslims in Kelantan, if they so desire, to exercise syariah usually for them as well as with which a hudud enactments supposing non-Muslims have been exempt from a implementation," said a Bishop who is parallel President of a Catholic Bishops' Conference of Malaysia.
"Between a row which a Federal Constitution is a colonial deception as well as a obligation of Muslims to await syar! iah, we contend a wiser non-Muslim position would be to hold which if syariah is what Kelantan Muslims wish as well as if we have been given a cast-iron guarantee which it will not be implemented upon us, we would not object to Muslims wanting it," he argued.
"Bear in mind, this is not a subject which is going to go away though it is not a subject which will continue to be framed in a same conditions as it is today in Malaysia," continued a Bishop. "What do we meant by this?" asked a cleric who performed his doctorate from Ecole 'Etude Science Social' whose degree is from Sorbonne, a 'Harvard of Europe' in Gothic times.
"You take a Arab Spring which has roiled nations in which arc from Tunisia to Syria. Do we see it as an Islamic overthrow or a approved insurgence? we demur to claim which it's a approved rising of peoples. You cannot tell for sure, though it is not specifically Islamic in character. we take a prolonged perspective as well as see it all as partial as well as parcel of a fast discuss in between a Mutazilities as well as a Asharites in Islam.
"The former holds which we need reason to explain a world; a latter which God does not need reason as well as which He is all energy as well as will. we urge a Mutazilites win a debate. we don't know if which extraordinary man, a Menteri Besar of Kelantan, is a Mutazilite or an Asharite. Sometimes he sounds like a Mutazilite, infrequently like an Asharite.
"But which play on words is a good thing. It shows he is not dogmatic. we contend let him as well as all who hold with him have their approach so prolonged as non-Muslims have iron-clad guarantees of their exemption."
Bishop Paul Tan concluded his soliloquy this way: "I take a prolonged perspective of story which is which a pass question, in a times as well as in all times, is as a reflective thinker Nietzsche, in being an anti-Christian thinker, framed it: What is a fundamental constitut! ion of r eality?
"I claim which if your theological assumptions of being have been incorrect, we have been headed for difficulty in this universe as well as which if they have been correct, we will have a peace which surpasses all understanding. we am in preference of Kelantan Muslims having hudud implemented for them only."
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