Critical Thoughts

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!

I was reading about San Diego nightlife when I came across an interesting article by Maszlee Malik, entitled “Cina Muslim dan Peta Politik Malaysia” (Chinese Muslims and the Malaysian Political Map), Majalah i, August 2007 issue, which does gives some interesting suggestions for Chinese Muslims to be involved and be well-known in mainstream politics in Malaysia. There is a serious dearth of Chinese Muslims involved in Malaysian politics, and the only individuals that I know who are actively involved from the Chinese Muslim community are Ann Wan Seng and Haji Anuar Tan Abdullah.

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