KUALA LUMPUR, July 12 Prominent Muslim academician Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin has pronounced that kingship is not above reproach as well as contingency be held under obligation to a open for their actions, sparking an immediate firestorm upon Twitter after he posted a acknowledgement joining it to brand new critique of a stately residence here.
The former mufti of Perlis, who is currently a visiting associate during Oxford University, had praised a British for gripping checks upon their stately family's spending as well as ensuring they were under obligation to taxpayers, observant it was critical to prevent abuses.
In an letter patrician "Mereka Paling Mencegah Kezaliman Raja (They Most Prohibit The Tyranny of Kings)", he forked out that even though a British stately family had contributed to history, "but currently they have been not left to act unquestioned".
He had penned it after reading aDaily Mirrorreport published upon July 3 highlighting a British stately family's travel bill that soared to 6.1 million (RM30.5 million) final year.
As is his style, Mohd Asri(picture)drew parallels from a British knowledge to a Islamic universe as well as contrasted freedom granted British multitude to criticise their Rulers to Muslim tyrants who "punished" their subjects for doubt their acts. "See in a Muslim universe when a elite hillside in all a cache from oil, timber, gas, land as well as open skill though anyone being authorised to question it. In fact, those who do have been punished," he wrote.
In his essay, he declared as examples of tyrants those who supported a order of Muammar Gaddafi, a Libyan autocrat slain final year, Egypt's dethroned President Hosni Mubarak recently condemned to life in jail for killing hundreds of protestors during Tahrir Square, as we! ll as em battled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Though he was silent upon Malaysia, Mohd Asri courted controversy after his implied critique of brand new events here in a Twitter post upon Monday.
"Melayu salah baca sejarahnya; Jebat sbnarnya tdk derhaka tp Sultan Melaka yg celaka. Mnzalimi rakyat tp mndakwa brdaulat (Malays read story wrong; Jebat did not plea a accursed Sultan of Malacca. Oppressed a people while claiming to be their sovereign)," he pronounced upon his Twitter comment @realDrMAZA.
The popular Muslim preacher drew immediate fire for his remarks from certain quarters, notably Umno supporters, with his Jebat acknowledgement as a Malay mythological figure has prolonged been portrayed as a hypocrite of a highest order akin to a Western world's Judas Iscariot for adventurous to plea a Ruler whom he believed had slain his best crony as well as hero, Hang Tuah.
Mohd Asri's successive tweet upon Tuesday, upon a ultimate situation of abnormal researcher Syed Abdullah Hussein Al-Attas improved well known by his blog moniker "Uncle Seekers" being investigated by a police for mutiny for allegedly scornful a Sultan of Johor, was a closest he posted without delay joining his critique of unchecked power.
"Uncle seeker hendaklah dibawa ke mahkamah dan dibicara dgn adil segala dalwaannya. Rakyat ingin melihat keadilan ditegakkan (Uncle Seekers contingency be taken to court as well as tried fairly upon all charges. The people want to see probity upheld)," a don said.
The Uncle Seekers situation came upon a heels of another popular Muslim preacher as well as PAS lawmaker, Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin, who was also recently investigated for mutiny after his implied critique of a Johor Sultan who paid a record RM520,000 for a WWW1 vanity car series image final May.
Umno male Tun Faisal Ismail Aziz, who heads a party's Unit Media Baru (UMB) cybertroops, rught away posted a stinging retort to Mohd Asri upon his Twit! ter acco unt.
"Blogger Pas mengamuk akibat dengar ceramah yang halalkan pemimpin diguling dengan mata pedang? (PAS blogger gone amok as a outcome of conference talks allowing leaders to be defeated during sword point?)" he tweeted upon his comment @tunfaisal.
Tun Faisal's volley was returned double by Mohd Asri, who has been courted by Umno's domestic rival, PAS, to join a ranks. However, a Muslim academician has remained non-partisan.
"Bala bagi UMNO jika org spt @tunfaisal ini menduduki kepimpinan (Bad luck for Umno if people like this @tunfaisal were in a leadership).
"Rakyat tdk membenci UMNO ttp mmbenci perangai sstengah org/pemimpin UMNO. Mrklah yg mnyuburkn kbencian ramai pd parti trsebut. (The people do not hatred Umno though hatred a perspective of a little Umno people/leaders. They have been fertilising a people's hatred for a party)," Mohd Asri tweeted in reply.
Civil multitude leaders as well as opposition lawmakers have prolonged criticised a government for regulating a Sedition Act 1948 as a domestic apparatus as well as hazard to quell dissent during a initial instance, even when legitimate.
But Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak announced final night his administration's plan to repeal a 64-year-old law as well as replace it with a brand new a single he called a National Harmony Act, in a ultimate bid to bolster his remodel image forward of critical inhabitant polls due subsequent April, that could see a regime change in Malaysia for a initial time given a autonomy in 1957.
"With this brand new Act, we would be improved equipped to manage our inhabitant fault lines," he was reported byThe Staras saying.
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