I thank Allah Most High for this, for it would not be without Him that this acrimonious “ideology” (I am not sure whether it can even be called one but the Islam Liberals are sure taking advantage of it) called “Islam Hadhari” is utterly bannedfrom two states currently controlled by Pakatan Rakyat. Eventually this “Hadhari” nonsense will be a distant memory in five years’ time, insha’allah.
Until today, no one, not even that lame-duck who coined the term and is currently warming his Putrajaya seat, knows what this “Islam Hadhari” nonsense really means. Oh yeah, maybe he does try to come close to a definition, but as far as I am concerned, it is simply an “ISLAM yang terHAD pada HARI-hari yang tertentu sahaja”.
I think that would be a good definition of this “Hadhari” this and “Hadhari” that nonsense.
From the grave, Albert Einstein poured gasoline on the culture wars between science and religion this week.
A letter the physicist wrote in 1954 to the philosopher Eric Gutkind, in which he described the Bible as “pretty childish” and scoffed at the notion that the Jews could be a “chosen people,” sold for $404,000 at an auction in London. That was 25 times the presale estimate.
No, I am not interested in the letter. I am more interested in what this brilliant man has to say about God. Unfortunately he never knew about Islam, had he known about it he would have become a Muslim I am sure. Because while the Bible may be viewed as a fictional historical piece of writing with little or no spiritual value, the Qur’an is in toto God’s Revelation verbatim. No one has thus far made any real challenge to deny that either.
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!
Kudos goes to the Muslim brother who directed the video in response to Wilders. This is the kind of “response” that is needed from Muslims, an intellectual response and not one based on emotion.
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.