Alhamdulillah, the anti-Islamic forum which was supposed to be run throughout the morning today has been stopped.
About 300 protesters have gathered outside Bar Council headquarters demanding that the lawyers group halt its controversial forum on ‘Conversion to Islam’ this morning. The Bar Council today, adhereing to the advice of the police – and an angry mob at its doorstep – wrapped up its half-day forum on ‘Conversion to Islam’ at 10am, an hour after it had started.
Earlier about 300 protesters have gathered outside Bar Council headquarters demanding that the lawyers group halt its controversial forum on ‘Conversion to Islam’. A leader of the protesters – PKR Kulim-Bandar Baharu parliamentarian Zulkifli Noordin – declared the abrupt end of the forum as a victory for them. By 10.40am, most of the protesters have dispersed.
The open forum on the sensitive religious issue kicked off at 9am but angry protestors have given organisers half an hour to cancel the event.
The forum is nothing more than an Article 11/IFC clone and I am glad that a stop was put to it. Issues of this nature are not qualified to be discussed by those who have no authority about it, most especially the non-Muslim lawyers infesting the Bar Council. It has nothing whatsoever to do with promoting and understanding between religions, but an underlying attempt to diffuse and destroy the Islamic character of Malaysia, God forbid! And this is something I will oppose to until my last, dying breath.
09 Aug
Begrudgingly I have to accept the fact that yet another person had decided to leave the body of the ummah and while I agree with the conclusions on why the Shariah Court in Penang approved the application of apostasy in the aforementioned case, I lament the fact that we still do not have any proper legislation to deal with apostasy and apostates from Islam in particular. In this particular case, there is evidence that she was never exposed to the proper teachings of Islam (which is where the sole blame lies with MAIPP, PERKIM, MACMA, etc., and no one else) and thus this judgement is correct. But there is, of course, the issue of another “Siti Fatimah” in Malacca who was raised as a Muslim and of course, Lina Joy who was also a born Muslim in the first place.
Let it be clear that there is no way the Muslim ummah should ever accept Muslims committing the heinous sin of apostasy and there is only one punishment for that: Man badala deenahu, faqthuluhu!
09 May
This was a letter written to Malaysiakini some four years ago but still remains relevant in the discussion about apostasy: Apostasy: the Prophet has spoken. Of course since then, many things have changed and certainly one may say that I have increased in knowledge, alhamdulillah. There is even a term now (not known in 2004) for those so-called “Muslims” with liberal leanings concocted from the West — we refer to them as Islam Liberal or neo-Mutazillites. An alien thought and innovation that had never existed during the Prophet’s (P) time and a heresy which was rendered extinct some 1000 years ago.
Or so we thought. In any case, the letter is still a pleasant read peppered with the necessary references, perhaps I could expand it to an updated version which takes into account recent events concerning the issue.
08 Feb