No Hudud please, Were Malaysians

November 1, 2011

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SHARING THE NATION

No Hudud please, We're Malaysians

By Zainah Anwar (10-02-11)

ARE our politicians solid bad, funny or stupid? In this divisive, corrosive, cynical domestic climate of ours, if you were the Opposition, you would burst as well as present my celebration as the celebration of initial as well as viewable preference for the electorate. you would have not usually welcomed the Prime Minister's bold announcements in repealing those repressive laws as well as states of emergency, you would also up the ante as well as proceed the open debate upon how you as adults should exercise as well as suffer our Constitutional guarantees of elemental liberties.

I would be formulation over the next couple of months upon how to build open opinion to reason the Government under obligation as well as safeguard which whatever alternative national security or open sequence laws which might arise will defend my elemental freedoms.

I would wish to have it politically very costly for the Government if it falls reduced or back-pedal upon the promises of approved reform it has made.

Instead, what do you get? An suggest of the hudud law as well as the grave serving of chopped-off Muslim hands as well as feet, as well as stoning to death! What kind of destiny is that?

And you have politicians, who presumably reason the layer of leadership, who simply as well as ceaselessly miss the point.

"It's o! kay to e xercise the hudud law since it doesn't affect non-Muslims." So it's okay for Muslims to be brutalised?

See what happens when the initial Muslim palm gets chopped off for stealing the motorbike. What if the medical team is upon standby to gather the chopped-off palm as well as the plant as well as run to Terengganu or fly to KL for the palm to be stitched back?

What if the burglar was with the Chinese or Indian accomplice who was sentenced usually to the couple of months' imprisonment under the Penal Code while the Malay burglar is now disabled as well as incompetent to get the job, as well as be forever publicly stigmatised?

Or really, could this be the swindling to have the Malays henceforth physically disabled in sequence to justify affirmative movement in perpetuity? you wonder.

"Non-Muslims should close up since it doesn't affect them." But they have been Malaysian adults who have every right to verbalise up upon laws which concede for brutal as well as inhumane punishments opposite their fellow citizens, the majority race to boot.

Who wants to live in such the society when your neighbour, your friend, or your fellow adult have been theme to the cruel authorised system?

How could you live with my demur if you were the Chinese who has witnessed the rape, though my infidel justification would not be accepted under the hudud law? No, you cannot keep still as well as accept such the law.

"Muslims who have been not experts upon Islam should close up". Then please take religion out of the open globe as well as have it in isolation in between us as well as God. But not when you can be flogged 80 lashes for qazaf (slanderous accusation) if you inform you have been raped as well as am incompetent to furnish 4 divine as well as only Muslim males who witnessed the rape.

On top of that, my rape inform could also be taken as admission of illicit sex as well as you could be charged for zina. And even if you could furnish the 4 men, you would! be ripp ed apart wondering why 4 presumably divine as well as only men watched me being raped.

And God forbid if you was singular as well as became profound since of the rape. you would be charged for zina as well as lashed 100 times since my conceiving physically is regarded as justification of illicit sex.

The weight is upon me, not the state, to prove you was in truth raped. The evidential requirements have this impossible. And the indicted assailant will be free from any hudud low mark by simply denying the rape.

And you have been all supposed to close up? No wonder some of our domestic leaders have been bent upon their so-called "Islamic state" as well as "Islamic law" plan since it is so easy to fly the flag of religion as well as overpower dissenting voices.

Even of their domestic opponents most of whom can usually summon the courage to claim: "I am not opposite the Hudud law, though the time as well as conditions have been not right to exercise it." There have been hundreds of commands, exhortations, values as well as principles in the Quran which you omit or violate upon the every day basis.

The authority for us to be kind as well as compassionate at all times, the avocation of the male to yield as well as strengthen his wife as well as children, the obligation of the leader to be only as well as fair in his statute have been only the couple of of these.

And what does an Islamist celebration prioritise as the hallmark of the piousness? The Hudud law. Instead of carrying the domestic courage to say no to the Hudud law, once as well as for all upon so most accessible drift Islamic, constitutional, human rights principles, lived realities so most of their domestic opponents dither as well as hedge.

It is so unin! terestin g which you the rakyat have been theme to this again as well as again. Sisters in Islam wrote letters to the editor, published the book as well as submitted the chit to the Government, all objecting to the PAS attempts to introduce the Hudud law in Kelantan as well as Terengganu in 1993 as well as 2002 respectively.

When PAS recently announced it was changeable from the push for an "Islamic state" to the "welfare state", most thought the care eventually realised which the destiny lies with amicable probity transformation, not with the punitive as well as joyless Islam of dejection as well as doom.

On some issues, it was even looking some-more on-going than UMNO. But the Hudud law pronouncements have jolted us behind to reality. So most in the PAS care as well as the rank as well as record sojourn stranded in Gothic times, incompetent to suppose what probity should mean to an Islamist celebration in the 21st century as well as incompetent to envision what it equates to to be Muslim in the modern, democratic, on-going multi-ethnic, multi-religious Malaysia today.

Footnote: I only beheld this article in the Columnist section of The Star (www.thestar.com.my). It is written by the Malaysian open intellectual, Zainah Anwar of the Sisters in Islam, for whom you have the highest regard.

A inclusive bard as well as author, Zainah has the singular peculiarity about her: she is clear as well as has lots of self-assurance as well as courage to take issues upon similar to Hudud as well as the standing of Malaysian women. She writes in the very highly entertaining style and conveys her message to her readers with such propensity as well as elegance.

Thank you, Zainah. And contrition upon PAS, Dr. Ridhuan Tee Abdullah, as well as others who have been promoting hudud unwell to recognise which Malaysia is the plural society as well as you have been all Malaysia! ns.Din M erican

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