Wednesday, April 30, 2008

PAS should have serious discussion on Islamic State issue with Pakatan Rakyat

A reader's opinnion from here wrote this :

Assalamu'alaikum.

I'm writing under capacity as a concerned muslim.
And I'm writing to YB Husam as the Naib Presiden PAS.

Lately, it seems the DAP counterpart namely Karpal Singh has been conducting onslaught against PAS ideology towards establishing Islamic State.


I read with disgust his latest edition calling PAS to drop this struggle. Following all this, can we:

1: Get the closed door meeting between PAS and DAP and even with PKR and explain to them what is the Islamic State all about. I think Karpal is having bigger agenda and it could be hidden agenda by DAP to have this country constitution on Islam be removed or made it explicitly secular. This one Karpal is not stupid.

2: Can we have sessions of explanation to public about this Islamic State? It has been 50 years people were brainwashed that Islamic rules are babrbaric and outdated. PAS should spear head this effort to ensure people receive the right perception.

3: It has been perceived by many fence-sitters that PAS is abandoning the struggle for Islamic State. I strongly believe that PAS should be making explanation sessions like item 2 above.

4: Top leaders in PAS should be more visible and at the forefront to defuse issues rather than be apologetic and defensive. We all should be even more pro-active.

5: Harakah, be it printed or on-line version should take advantage and fully capitalise the issue to pre-empt any narrow understanding on the Islamic State policy. We should be playing the beauty of the Islamic rule non-stop, until people bored to death!

6: Current issues should be explained in the Harakah by Dewan Ulama PAS complete with all nas and proof whether such and such is allowed or forbidden. Not just this time but, all the time.

7: We all have to capitalize the heat post PRU12 to make people attracted to PAS even stronger. Of course we need to be pro-active (as raised in the point 5)


That's all for now.
Thanks and wassalam,

Hasni.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Nik Aziz backs modern pig farm for Selangor

PASIR PUTEH: PAS spiritual leader Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat has expressed support for the proposed high-tech pig farm in Selangor provided it does not contaminate the environment.

He said there was no reason to raise objections against the proposal if the company managing the farm was able to follow the guidelines set by the Department of Environment.

“We support so long as the farm does not contaminate the environment, and non-Muslims have the right to breed pigs,” Nik Aziz said here Monday.

He was asked to comment on a decision by the Pakatan Rakyat government in Selangor to allow a company to open a RM100mil modern pig farm in Tumbuk Estate, Sepang.

As for Kelantan, Nik Aziz, who is Mentri Besar, said the state would not allow the setting up of pig farms on a commercial scale.

“The backyard breeding of pigs by non-Muslims is adequate,” he said. – Bernama

PAS: Islamic state agenda is still on

From the Star
PETALING JAYA: Although PAS is focusing on Pakatan Rakyat’s agenda of establishing a welfare state and reinstating democracy and good governance, it is not discarding its agenda to set up an Islamic state.

PAS MP for Kuala Selangor Dr Dzulkifly Ahmad said the party did not want to harp on the issue of Islamic state because it was not part of the Pakatan Rakyat agenda.

“We are not pulling it (setting up of an Islamic state) back. It is still an issue that matters to us but we are allowing more time for the electorate to understand us better.

“The more important agenda now is reinstating democracy and good governance,” said the PAS reserach centre director after taking part in an intellectual discourse on a book entitled Who Needs an Islamic State? written by Dr Abdelwahab El-Effendi.

The discussion on the book was organised by the Muslim Professionals Forum here yesterday.

Dr Dzulkifly said PAS was a lot more politically savvy and during the last general election, had reinvented itself by coming up with a manifesto embodying the principle of a trustworthy, just and clean government.

Human rights lawyer Malik Imtiaz Sarwar said people should recognise that the question “Who Needs an Islamic state?” reflected the aspiration of some quarters which wanted a greater role for Islam in public life.

“It’s also a cause of discomfort. We don’t have a homogenous society. We have a multiracial and multi-religious society,” he said.

He added that the constitutional debate on the social contract about the position of the Malays together with the debate on Islamic state made the concept “explosive.”

“We have to take a step back and see what it is we want to achieve when we suggest that we want an Islamic state. If we say that this country is an Islamic state, we are in some way saying that we have a national status.

“To non-Muslims we are in fact saying they have a lesser place. Are we saying that non-Muslims are less significant and of lesser standing in the country? I don’t want to be part of that or be associated with that.”

Dr Abelwahab pointed out that an Islamic state was a system of meting out justice.

“In Islam, the general principle to follow is how to conduct yourself to please God. Islamic state assumes that rules should be rules but you should also use your conscience.”

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Our One Buntung Idiot

Malaysian Unplug says :

He’s an Idiot !!

DAP State Assemblyman A. Sivasubramaniam
(Buntong, Perak)

Comments From Malaysia Today's readers :

  • Qoute : 'The situation was only explained to me today. If this was done earlier, there wouldn't have been this problem.'

    What a lot of bullshit! You jumped the gun. You created the problem so don't wiggle out of it. Isn't it your duty to ask before you start shitting all over the place. Had you asked and be more matured your mentor at DAP would have gladly point you to the loo, a proper palce to shit.!

  • Siva(ji) did a big mistake when he copied his letter to media. Obviously it backfired and we all hope he learned his lesson. His behaviour was akin to BN's kind of behaviour and it looked to me like he was sent by Samy Velu to BR. Haha!

    I expect they will be more like this kind if thing to come in future but we need to rise above all this. We have an election to win in 2013 lah and make BN the opposition.

    I hope DAP kicks him hard in the butt and then forgive him. If he does it again, show him the door