by Pak Sako
CPI
14 Oct 2011
PAS as well as DAP's preference to 'agree to disagree' upon hudud contingency be taken for what it unequivocally is: a politically-motivated proxy ceasefire.
It does not resolve a hudud controversy.
The debate can never be resolved as prolonged as a elemental questions of a hudud debate continue to be avoided. The questions are:
1. What goals have been hudud meant to achieve?
2. What have been a pluses as well as minuses of hudud?
3. Do all Malaysian Muslims as well as non-Muslims instruct hudud?
A inhabitant dialogue upon implementing hudud contingency exhaustively probe these questions prior to anything else.
An open as well as critical exploration of these questions will assistance a open sense as well as confirm about either hudud is necessary, worthwhile, appropriate or out-of-date. It will capacitate policymakers to discover either a informed open desires hudud or not.
Without full open discussion as well as open consent, it is incorrigible for policymakers to presuppose a worth of hudud as well as speak about a implementation. It is also wrong to assume which a elementary parliamentary infancy (which is all which is needed) is an automatic mandate to incrementally amend a Constitution to house hudud.
The open upon their part should not leave it a politicians, a eremite scholars or a kingship to confirm matters for them. The politicians, mullahs as well as kings do not know all a answers or what's most appropriate for society; they have a personal or biased seductiveness in a matter; as well as it is undemocratic to allow a preferences of these vested seductiveness groups to change a preference which should be in a hands of a people.
The politician's role should be confined to satisfying a independently dynam! ic instr uct of a people. If after careful deliberation a people choose to reject hudud, this preference contingency be respectfully accepted. The Islamic theologians have been utilitarian insofar as they can yield a evaluating open with technical input, such as a scope, workings as well as alternative details of hudud. Likewise with a political scientists as well as alternative relevant experts.
All members of a open together with seductiveness groups as well as polite multitude organisations should thrash out a questions about a purposes as well as worth of hudud. The Muslims contingency be means to weigh as well as confirm upon hudud giveaway from amicable pressures as well as political or eremite brainwashing. This includes a scandalous 'bad Muslim' tarnish which could forestall them from saying 'no' to hudud when 'no' is what they indeed desire. As for a non-Muslims, they have been not giveaway to wash their hands of a issue; they have been responsible parties to any law which a politicians they had inaugurated might order as well as administer upon their fellow citizens.
PAS as well as all alternative proponents of hudud have a special obligation to explain a explicit as well as implicit aims they believe hudud is to offer as well as a rationales for these. They contingency rivet in discussions about a worth of hudud as well as a problems as well as concerns compared with it. The weight of proof is upon a shoulders of a proposers of a law.
What is unsuitable is for hudud advocates to justify hudud quite upon grounds of eremite faith as well as conviction. Statements such as 'hudud is ordained by Allah', 'it is our avocation as Muslims to implement hudud no make a difference what' as well as 'nobody upon Earth can be fair, usually Allah knows best' have been invalid for assessing a strengths, weaknesses, impact as well as relevance of a law with inclusive consequences for a lives of both Muslims as well as non-Muslims. If hudud is God's gift, let it stand upon a own merit. A thorough ass! essment of a appropriateness (or undesirability) of hudud should be welcomed, not feared.
Issuing wisecrack orders upon hudud, sidestepping core hudud issues as well as whitewashing hudud-related statements these have been a behaviours of political plotters as well as ideologues for whom having things their way is some-more important than doing things right.
If PAS as well as DAP as well as a Barisan Nasional as well indeed hold a seductiveness of a Malaysian people at heart, they should pull for a inhabitant review which focuses upon a core of a matter, which is, a pros as well as cons of hudud as well as either a people instruct it or not. To exclude to speak it out is to leave a door open to tyranny.
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