So-called “body snatching”
I wonder whether it has come across in the minds of those who like to bitch about the Islamic authorities in the country that incidents like these, unfortunate as they may be, stem from their inner Islamophobia and utter hatred and mistrust of Islam and the Islamic court system? Islam Liberals are no exception to the rule, either. After all, if the person in question had never been a Muslim in the first place, why not let the due process of the law take over to prove it?
The Malays have a saying, “berani kerana benar, takut kerana salah” (you are brave if you are right, afraid if you are in the wrong). Now I want to ask these people who have been making noises about the issue, what are you afraid of, really? After all, it is not that we are going to burn the corpse or manhandle it.
I think the point should be hammered home into these peoples’ brains that we have no intention of desecrating our Muslim graves with dead bodies of the infidels.
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MENJ is 28/m/BTHO. Pursuing a Masters programme at APIIT, he is currently a full-time ProBlogger and Web Directory Owner. He is also a Muslim Internet activist and student of Comparative Religion, dedicated to combating misinformation about Islam. 
Mistrust is born out of witnessing unnecessary acts of body snatching such as this latest one. Put yourself in the shoes of others and think about how you would feel…
[MENJ: Hardly bothers me, it is just infidels making a fuss out of nothing.]
Comment by alpha_omega — January 26, 2008 @ 6:37 pm
Come on dude,if someone stole your own family member’s body, saying they converted to Christianity ? Won’t you hate us even more?See the latest news…the court decided the application came too late and struck it out! Those guys are Buddhists for crying out loud! How are they supposed to know Syariah’s procedures?I don’t think “Syariah Procedures for In Case your Dad converts secretly according to one man” is available yet in bookstores.
[MENJ: Unlikely to happen even in a million years and Shariah procedures are just like any other "procedure" in a court of law.]
Comment by Emmanuel — January 27, 2008 @ 8:42 am
“Now I want to ask these people who have been making noises about the issue, what are you afraid of, really? After all, it is not that we are going to burn the corpse or manhandle it.”
In Syriah Law, the living stand to inherit nothing from the dead Muslim spouse or kin. It seems to me the eldest son (is a Muslim) fabricated the story in order to be the sole heir of the deadman’s property. And no, this “infidels” are not making a fuss out of nothing. It is a BIG thing here. To think that a family receives nothing from their departed ones, the house, money and car, I’ll call this robbery. The eldest son or Baitulmal have no right to take everything from a family. This is plain sheer injustice.
[MENJ: This is sheer nonsense, of course. If the father is a Muslim and the next of kin is not, wealth is still inherited to the next of kin REGARDLESS whether the father is Muslim or otherwise, unless it was SPECIFIED otherwise. Since from this specific incident this was not the case, I do not believe that this has anything to do with wealth-possessing. The eldest son has nothing to gain from stating that his father was a Muslim or otherwise.]
Also, as a non-Muslim we do not appreciate it when zealots from your religions governing body press their values on us. You would not like the same thing happened to you as well Im sure.
[MENJ: And as a Muslim we do not appreciate it when zealots from your Islamophobic pack start claiming this and claiming that, making up "Shariah" laws out of thin air like your nonsense above. Who died and elected you the Shariah expert here?]
It is plain to me that when you, I quote “Hardly bothers me, it is just infidels making a fuss out of nothing.”, dismiss the grieving family making fuss you did not even try to understand their grievances.
[MENJ: And I stand by it. The body certainly is not going to be burned into an incinerator, there is nothing to "grieve" about. If they have grievances, do it in the proper way by facing the courts who are the sole arbitrator in the matter.]
Before anyone would accuse me of being islamophobic, let me tell you that I have Muslim friends. They are my friends because they respect my beliefs and did not seek to press their religious values upon me. If they do, they wont be my friends.
I always believe that Muslims and non-Muslims can co-exist peacefully together. The problems would start when Muslims would start to impose their religious values upon others.
[MENJ: I, of course, do not believe a word of it. Islamophobes are as Islamophobic as they come, and you, sir, are a prime example of that!]
To subject others under Syriah Law is forcibly imposing your religious values. In this way, Muslims drove others to resent or hate Islam.
[MENJ: That is the crux of the matter, you think Shariah law is "unjust" when all that was done was to take the case before the court to determine whether the father was really a Muslim. It is certainly clear that you are an ISLAMOPHOBE, period.]
Comment by Zomgbratto di Lolrenzor — January 28, 2008 @ 1:21 am
[MENJ: Deleted for linking to insulting content about Islam, I will not tolerate such material. Strike one. Do this again and you will be banned permanently.]
Comment by BrightEyes — January 28, 2008 @ 10:37 pm
You cannot handle solid arguements, Menj. You can only censor & whine.
[MENJ: Say whatever you want but last time I checked, this is still MY BLOG and I will make the rules around here. You kappish?]
Comment by BrightEyes — January 28, 2008 @ 11:43 pm
hi bro, what do you think of the “evidence” shown at http://sean-the-man.blogspot.com/
[MENJ: All I see is anti-Islam rhetoric.]
Comment by hamzah — January 29, 2008 @ 1:31 am