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Now JAKIMs Turn

July 6, 2012

Now JAKIM's Turn: Mulling over Banning Book launched by Prime Minister Najib?

by Zulaikha Zulkifli@www.malaysiakini.com

A novel launched by a Prime Minister last Tuesday competence be criminialized for purportedly swelling Shiite teachings.

NONE This was reliable by Islamic Development Department (JAKIM) Deputy Director for planning as well as investigate Mohd Aizam Masod, who pronounced a dialect was now deliberating on a novel Perempuan Nan Bercinta by distinguished bard Faisal Tehrani.

"Yes there have been (discussions) There have been complaints as well as JAKIMis in a routine of receiving action. Just wait for dual or 3 days more," he pronounced when contacted yesterday.

According to well read romantic as well as bard Uthaya Sankar SB, speculation of a expected banning arose on Jun 6 when a JAKIM officer urged a public to board police reports against a book during a forum by a Ulama Association of Malaysia (PUM).

When contacted, Faisal pronounced which he is certain which his novel will have a "longer life" deliberation which a premier himself had not long ago pronounced which writers should be free to produce their work.

NONE "The PM even referred to (Islamic modernist) Syed Jamaluddin el Afghani's vision as a benchmark prior to he launched Perempuan Nan Bercinta," he pronounced of a a launch, along with twenty-nine other books in Putrajaya.

For now, Faisal (left), who is a techer at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, pronounced he will go on to write as well as control academic research.

He is due to hold a press discussion tomorrow to announce his entrance as an titula! r part o f to Kavyan, a well read group for Indian writers writing in Bahasa Malaysia headed by Uthaya.

Controversial writer

If a anathema is imposed, it will be a second book by a author, whose real name is Mohd Faizal Musa, to be criminialized in reduction than a year. His book Sebongkah Batu di Kuala Berang was criminialized by JAKIM last December, whilst he had faced difficulties over a screenplay which he wrote for a made-for-television prolongation earlier this year.

The film, destined by well-known actress as well as executive Erma Fatima, was in a future approved as well as screened on Feb 4. The Anugerah Seni Negara's stipulate for a serial novel Ketupat Cinta, published by Malay every day Harian Metro, was also consummated in Jun 2008 after clever protests by then-Perlis mufti Asri Zainul Abidin.

The novel Perempuan Nan Bercinta is about a feminist who becomes inspired by a Professor to follow a example of a Prophet Muhammad's daughter Fatimah Az-Zahra, but a highbrow is after persecuted by religious authorities.

Fatimah is rarely worshiped by Shiites as well as is deliberate "the Mother of a Imams". She was tied together to Ali, whom a Shiites hold was chosen by a Prophet as a latter's successor.

The book hits a marketplace this week as well as retails for RM35.