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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
PAS Spiritual Adviser Nik Aziz Nik Mat Passes Away

PAS and the Kelantan state have lost an influential leader today after Datuk Bentara Setia Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat passed away at the age of 84.

The former Kelantan menteri besar breathed his last at 9.45pm, an hour after he was sent home in Kota Baru after doctors took him off respiratory support at the Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia in Kubang Kerian.

“His health deteriorated after the doctors treated the ulcer last night,” his son Nik Mohd Abduh had said earlier in a statement issued in the state capital Kota Baru.

A crowd has gathered at Nik Aziz’s house in Pulau Melaka after he was sent home at 8.30pm. Among them are PAS vice-president Datuk Husam Musa.

Nik Aziz was the longest-serving menteri besar for Kelantan from 1990 to 2013.

Husam confirmed Nik Aziz’s death to The Malaysian Insider.

The respected leader was also the PAS spiritual adviser.

Nik Aziz had been the strongest advocate of the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) alliance since its formation in 2008, and also rejected all possibility of PAS cooperating with Umno.

He had once warned he would spit in the face of any PAS leader who wished to form an alliance with the ruling Malay party, having personally experienced the bitterness of leading PAS after Umno ejected it from Barisan Nasional (BN).

He was the most respected leader among his colleagues in PR components DAP and PKR, including opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

Anwar often flew to Nik Aziz’s home in Pulau Melaka, Kota Baru, to consult the leader before PR made any major decisions or faced internal problems.

He also managed to earn the trust of non-Muslims nationwide, and, among others, supported their right to use the word “Allah” as long as they had no ill intentions.

Born on January 10, 1931, Nik Aziz obtained his early education from his own father, who was a religious teacher.

He later continued his studies in Darul Uloom Deoband, Uttar Pradesh, India, majoring in the Arabic language.

After earning his first degree, Nik Aziz pursued his post graduate studies in Al Azhar Univesity, Egypt, and graduated with a Masters of Arts in Islamic jurisprudence.

Upon his return to Malaysia, he worked as a religious teacher and contested in his first general election in 1967, the same year he joined PAS.

He won the Kelantan Hilir parliamentary seat (later renamed to Pengkalan Chepa) and retained the seat until 1986.

Nik Aziz was appointed the Kelantan PAS Commissioner in 1978 after the party lost the state. He and then-PAS President Datuk Asri Haji Muda did not see eye-to-eye, and the latter eventually resigned the same year.

Nik Aziz first contested a state seat in 1986. He was appointed the Kelantan menteri besar after PAS won the state in 1990.

The following year, he was appointed PAS spiritual leader after Haji Yusof Rawa, who had previously held the position, passed away.

Nik Aziz had stepped down as Kelantan menteri besar on May 6 2013, despite winning the Chempaka state seat in the 13th general election.

After he resigned from the post, his health gradually worsened, forcing him to spend many of his days warded at the Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (HUSM) in Kubang Kerian.

He leaves behind wife Datin Tuan Sabariah Tuan Ishak and 10 children, including Pasir Mas MP Nik Mohd Abduh Nik Aziz.

Today, the country as a whole has lost a great figure who cannot be easily replaced.

Source: www.themalaysianinsider.com

February 13, 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
Dr Mahathir: Malaysia Could Become Singapore if Chinese Community Continues to Support DAP

KUALA LUMPUR, March 13 — Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamed warned today that Malaysia could become like Singapore if the Chinese community here continues to support DAP’s alleged dream of complete political and economic dominance in Malaysia.

The former prime minister claimed that nothing good will come of Chinese dominance in politics or the economy — as has happened in neighbouring Singapore — as Malaysia is a multi-cultural society mostly made up of the Malays.

“In the 13th General Election, the DAP dangled before the eyes of the Chinese that this time (kali ini) they can grab both political and economic dominance,” he said in his latest posting on his blog, chedet.cc.

“They point to the Perak model where when Pakatan won the head of Government was a Malay but he was totally subservient to the DAP (Chinese).

“When the Pakatan Government with Nizar of PAS as the MB was brought down, the DAP told the Chinese that they had lost a Chinese Government. The Chinese in Perak have since become anti-BN,” he added.

He was referring to Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin, the PAS leader who helmed Perak for 10 months in 2008 in a DAP-dominated government before a series of defections led to Barisan Nasional’s (BN) return to power in the silver state.

Dr Mahathir claimed that the DAP is taking advantage of the fact that the Malays today are divided between Umno and Pakatan Rakyat (PR) partners PKR and PAS, which gives DAP all the leverage it needs.

Explaining, he said the split support among the Malays would mean that all three Malay-based parties — Umno, PKR and PAS — would need to rely on Chinese support to win an election.

In such a situation, he alleged that DAP would not need to be directly in charge as they would have already worked out an arrangement with their PR partners where they would have their prime minister of choice under their thumb.

“Physically holding office is not necessary. If the Prime Minister is totally under the control of the DAP then it would become a Chinese dominated Government,” he said, adding that the DAP could very well see their so-called vision come true as soon as the next national polls if the trend of declining support for the ruling BN coalition continues.

Dr Mahathir insisted that the power-sharing formula now practised by BN — especially with the recent decision by MCA to rejoin the Cabinet after initially refusing to do so due to their poor outing in last year’s general election — is still the best way forward for the country.

He stressed that the DAP’s alleged plan to dominate the country’s politics and economy would only perpetuate a culture where each race will only look out for its own interests above the collective interests of the nation.

“Forget the idea of dominating all fields, of dominating both politics and economics. Go back to the idea of sharing. It will not be forever. It will be only for the duration when the Malays through their numbers dominate politics and the Chinese through their business acumen and money dominate the economy.

“Once the Malays and other indigenous people gain a fair share of the economic wealth of this country, they will lose their fear of Chinese domination. At that stage the Chinese share of political power would be enhanced.

“It may take years but that is as much as we can expect for as long as we insist on being identified by our racial origins,” he said.

BN is currently in a straight tussle with PKR in the Kajang state by-election this March 27. The ruling pact has put MCA vice-president Chew Mei Fun as their candidate against PKR president Datuk Seri Wan Azizah Wan Ismail.

Source: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/dr-m-malaysia-will-be-like-singapore-if-pakatan-takes-power

September 19, 2014