Tag: hudud

PKR To Mediate In Hudud Disagreement Between DAP And PAS

PKR said today that it would play the role of mediator between PAS and DAP to ensure that Pakatan Rakyat does not split up, following the latter’s decision to end ties with the Islamist party’s president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang over the hudud issue.

PKR secretary-general Rafizi Ramli said the party’s political bureau had held a meeting last night at which it was decided that PKR would meet separately with the warring PAS and DAP leaders to discuss the issues threatening to split the seven-year coalition.

“We want to sit down with PAS and DAP leadership. At the end of the day, even the most difficult issues have been resolved by sitting down and discussing,” he said at a press conference at the Parliament lobby today.

“Pakatan is like a tripod. We cannot survive without one leg. In spite of the miscommunication and internal problems, we have our common interests and we will move along the same direction.”

DAP said yesterday that although it would remain in PR, it was ending all ties with Hadi following the latter’s decision to go against the coalition in tabling a Private Member’s Bill on his own without discussing it with the rest of the leadership.

“DAP is unable to work with a PAS president like Hadi Awang who persists in such dishonest and dishonourable acts,” secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said.

“As Hadi is the PAS leader in PR, DAP’s decision to end all ties with Hadi will effectively put the PR leadership council in limbo. DAP will meet the PKR leadership to discuss the future course of PR.”

Lim later told reporters that Hadi should leave the opposition coalition if he insisted on implementing hudud in Kelantan.

Hadi had come under severe criticism after failing to agree to the decision made at the PR leadership council meeting on February 8, where it was agreed that Kelantan PAS’s hudud bill to amend the state’s Shariah Criminal Code Enactment II (1993) would first be discussed by all three PR party leaders, before it was tabled in the legislative assembly.

The frictions between both parties came to a head after Hadi had gone ahead to submit a private member’s bill on March 18 to Parliament without presenting it first to the PAS central committee and to the PR leadership council.

Rafizi said today that although the matter cannot be swept under the carpet, the hudud issue is not big enough to put the coalition at a breaking point.

“We had also discussed our differences about the hudud in 2011 and resolved it. In the end, the commom interest of the coalition is to bring up pressing issues concerning the rakyat.

“There will be some skirmishes, problems between two parties and the other one tries to bring back peace. There have been problems between PAS and PKR.

“When we were preparing the shadow budget and manifesto, there were a lot of shouting, walk-outs and yet we managed to come together and present our budget and common policy framework,” he added.

“By making that stand, we have declared that it is very hard for us to work with Hadi now,” he said.

Source: www.themalaysianinsider.com

March 26, 2015
Kelantan Legislative Assembly Unanimously Passes Hudud Law Amendments

The amendments to the Shariah Criminal Code II 1993 (Amendment 2015) were passed today after members of the Kelantan legislative assembly unanimously supported the bill.

Kelantan Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Yakob today wrapped up debate on the hudud enactment, which was tabled yesterday, and noted it received no objection.

He said the implementation of Shariah law in Kelantan would begin in stages, starting with educating and enlightening the people on the implementation of the Islamic law. – March 19, 2015.

Source: www.themalaysianinsider.com

March 19, 2015
Implementation Of Hudud Law Places Kelantan At Risk Of Being Overrun By Paedophiles

Paedophiles will overrun Kelantan if it implements hudud as the Islamic law is open to abuse and rejects using scientific evidence to prove crime, says a spokesperson for the group of eminent Malays, or G25.

Datuk Noor Farida Ariffin said since it would be difficult to prove crimes like adultery, rape of children and adults will abound.

“This is the nature of PAS’s hudud,” she said.

Farida said Kelantan’s hudud rejected the use of scientific methods such as DNA testing and fingerprints, instead requiring the evidence of four witnesses of the alleged crime.

“They are using evidence used in the 12th century to prove adultery, pushing out scientific methods.

“They are asserting that is the only way to prove the crime of adultery, which does not make sense,” she said, adding that PAS leaders travelled in cars and planes but did not want to accept scientific evidence.

She added that Prophet Muhammad had also told his people about the importance of acquiring knowledge.

“The Prophet said that we should go in search of knowledge even up to China.

“If hudud is implemented in Kelantan, paedophiles will abound in the state,” she said.

Farida added that the structure of society was not suitable for the implementation of hudud.

She said Islamic scholars were of the view that many conditions needed to be fulfilled before the Islamic law can be introduced.

“We need a just society, a smaller gap between the rich and the poor. But here, even among the Malays, there is a divide.

“The problem is that the ustaz in the villages are spreading the message that hudud is God’s law which cannot be questioned,” she said at a forum on economic freedom and globalisation today.

The forum was organised by think tank Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs.

PAS’s plan to implement hudud in Kelantan has been strongly opposed by its Pakatan Rakyat coalition partner DAP.

Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim yesterday urged PAS to table the proposed amendments to the Shariah Criminal Code Enactment 11 at the Pakatan presidential council meeting tomorrow before taking it to Parliament.

But Kelantan Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Yakob responded by saying that the Islamic enactment could only be tabled at the state assembly sitting or Parliament as it is under embargo.

“However, we have discussed at the technical committee state, which included legal experts, lecturers and NGOs including parties within Pakatan.

“So this Sunday, we cannot table the enactment, the next stop is Parliament,” he said after the Friday sermon in Kota Baru.

Source: www.themalaysianinsider.com

February 9, 2015
Kelantan’s Hudud Technical Committee Mulling The Use of Guillotine For Individuals Convicted Under Hudud

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 16 — After receiving rebuke from the medical fraternity over its proposal to amputate the limbs of criminals convicted under hudud, Kelantan is now mulling the use of the guillotine – an 18^th century contraption used during the French revolution to carry out executions by beheading.

Deputy Menteri Besar Datuk Mohd Amar Abdullah told The Star that the state-level hudud technical committee is contemplating introducing a “mini version” of the apparatus, which he said would no longer need the services of surgeons.

Mohd Amar, who chairs the committee, conceded that medical practitioners are averse to the proposal of amputating limbs as it is in contrary to the Hippocratic Oath.

The Hippocratic Oath states, among others, that doctors must never do harm to anyone, and must do what is best for their patients.

“The surgeon must first agree to carry out the procedure but he is likely to face the wrath of the Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) for violating the Hippocratic Oath,” he was quoted saying in the local English daily.

In April, the MMA warned that it will seek to disqualify surgeons who perform the unethical amputations on criminals convicted under hudud, reminding doctors that they are bound by their professional ethics to do no harm.

The MMA represents 14,000 out of 37,000 doctors in Malaysia.

With the guillotine, however, Mohd Amar said punishments could be meted out effectively as the method is fast; it requires only one individual to pull the lever; two to hold down the convict; the presence of the judge who ordered the sentence; and a doctor to ensure the offender “does not drastically suffer from the punishments”.

“I will make extensive studies on the method used during the French Revolution in the 18^th century when guillotines were used to sever the heads of those sentenced to death,” said Mohd Amar, adding that he will present his proposal to the hudud committee’s next meeting for feedback.

Mohd Amar has been steadfast in his opinion that amputations under hudud is a far more effective penalty compared to the existing Penal Code’s jail terms, as it does not burden taxpayers.

But the Kelantan state lawmaker added that due consideration would be given before sentences are meted out for offenders who steal due to hunger or other compelling circumstances.

In 1993, the PAS state government passed the Kelantan Syariah Criminal Code Enactment II, but the strict Islamic penal code has not been enforced due to conflicts with the Federal Constitution.

The state formed the technical committee after state government announced in April that it is gearing up present two Private Member’s Bills to Parliament, hoping to remove all obstacles to its implementation of the hudud law in Kelantan by 2015.

But PAS is facing unyielding resistance from its Pakatan Rakyat (PR) partners PKR and DAP, and has said it hopes to get the necessary votes from Umno MPs in order to get the bill approved. The Islamist party will need a simple majority of 112 votes for this.

In Islamic jurisprudence, “hudud” covers crimes such as theft, robbery, adultery, rape and sodomy.

Punishments for the crimes are severe, including amputation, flogging and death by stoning.

Source: www.themalaymailonline.com

November 17, 2014
SG Motivational Speaker Comment on Brunei Islamic Laws During Ramadan, Anger Muslims

So who is Adam Khoo?

Even Bruneians are angry at him. Count himself lucky that the Sultan of Brunei didn’t any serious action for his silly comments.

Or maybe the Sultan of Brunei hasn’t read it yet?

Ahim Rani/Reuters

Images by Jannah Jakasha

EDITOR’S NOTE

Steady lah Jannah Jakasha and Perutusan Asia for speaking up!

For a non-Muslim/non-Malay who can’t even speak like a native, we find it rather strange that a motivational speaker like Adam Khoo have the guts to write on a topic that we doubt he is familiar at all.

We have seen this many times where non-Malays and non-Muslims, speak of our communities and cultures like as though they are living it.

Studying our culture, religion, language, or even staying in a Malay or Muslim country doesn’t make you (non-Malay/non-Muslim) an expert in our cultures, languages, religion, and race. Those experiences just makes you have a better understanding of the intricacies. Makes you wiser.

So for now, don’t pandai-pandai (smart aleck).

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July 13, 2014