October 9, 2011
www.thestar.com.my
Right to subject Hudud Law
By Azmi Sharom (10-06-11)
My complaint with religion-based law making, is a thought which it cannot be questioned since it is boundless in origin. In a democracy, if you can't subject a laws which start a lives, then it is not a democracy during all.POOR Fulham. Despite thoroughly thrashing Tony Fernandes' Queens Park Rangers 6-0, all a sports headlines were about a alternative London derby where Tottenham Hotspur edged Arsenal 2-1.
I suppose it is all about perception; usually what is critical as well as what is not.As much as you would similar to to consider which a diversion during White Hart Lane is an denote which a energy in North London has shifted to Seven Sisters road, you am ever cautious as well as am reminded of a saying which a swallow does not a summer make. Although you suppose in a box of a Spurs-Arsenal rivalry, deliberation which you have knocked about them three times in a final four joining clashes, it usually may be there is some-more than a single swallow whipping about.
However, you digress. My earlier point remains as well as which is a perception of what is critical as well as what is not. At a moment, there have been all sorts of news stories floating about as well as they point towards a single thing, elections.
PAS has once again raised a hudud issue. Frankly, you am not as well disturbed about this matter.Pakatan Rakyat has stated which they will not go upon with hudud unless all a member parties agree.
This seems highly doubtful as DAP will never determine as well as you am certain there have been some voices in Keadilan as well who will not be gentle with hudud. However, if ! they do try to deliver it, you will most positively object.
The reason why you intent is encapsulated in Hadi's (PAS President Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang) make a difference in a press upon a make a difference (if it was fairly reported) where he said which hudud cannot be questioned.
Whoa there, "cannot be questioned"? you am sorry, if you have personal beliefs which start usually you as well as you won't subject them, that's all fine as well as dandy. But if you have been going to deliver something into a open sphere, something which will start a lives of a citizens, you do not caring if a source of what you have been introducing is divine, it ridicule well improved be questioned.
And you do not caring if you say you have no degree from Al-Azhar as well as no goatee to go along with it, you will subject any law which any supervision wants to introduce. This has been my complaint with any religion-based law making, a thought which simply since it is boundless in start equates to it can't be questioned. In a democracy, if you can't subject a laws which start a lives, then it is not a democracy during all.
And then there is bad Mat Sabu; charged with rapist insult for doubt a intrepidity of a policemen who fought during Bukit Kepong. you checked a Penal Code as well as certain enough, rapist insult can be committed opposite a dead.
It's a bit uncanny since how distant back does this provision extend? you meant in historical matters there will always be opposite perspectives as well as incompatible opinions formed upon new findings as well as discoveries.
In box a Government decides to assign me with rapist insult for doubt a character of a single of a early leaders, let me make use of an American example. Is Thomas Jefferson; renaissance man who helped breeze a American Constitution as well as ensured a complicated democracy where all men were combined equal, or a shameless deceiver worker owner who fathered numerous children with his womanli! ke slave s?
Both views have been correct as well as depending upon your own take upon story a perspective which will take precedence will differ. And positively which was what Mat Sabu's make a difference was; his take upon history. Was it insensitive, probably, should he be prosecuted for it? you do not consider so.
However, all these issues have been unequivocally not which critical to me. you consider they have been usually a usual sound as well as fury which come with politicians posturing in a light which elections have been coming. The genuine critical story for right away should be a Budget as well as some-more importantly a alternative budget which a Pakatan has unveiled.
It is unequivocally good to see Pakatan acting similar to they have a Shadow Cabinet (although they do not have a single really). We need to see petrify opposite proposals from a opposition to not usually help us subject a Government's Budget but also to assess a alternatives which a opposite supervision could give. This is critical in a mature democracy.
I positively hope which discussions in a subsequent couple of weeks will be about comparing a dual budgets for positively which is some-more critical than a hudud law which is doubtful to be implemented as well as Mat Sabu's supposed miss of patriotism.
Post Script: you do not consider a Fulham diversion was which important, who cares what happened during Craven Cottage. We kick Arsenal, again!
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