Critical Thoughts

Geert Wilders, are you watching this? This is our answer to Fitna!

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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.

Today, we see in the Muslim world that the ummah is slowly making this prophecy come true.

Even the thought of that happening would probably make many people bristle, including yours truly. A very long time ago, that is, back when the idea of MELAYU = ISLAM is synonymous with my identity. Things, of course, have changed since then and even more dramatically so after the recent General Elections. Frankly race was never an issue for me and I can accept an ethnic Chinese Malaysian as my Prime Minister but there is only one criteria: he must be a Muslim in order to uphold Article 3 of the Federal Constitution.

No exceptions and no further argument is necessary. And oh, in case you are wondering, that picture above is not a Chinese temple. It is a minaret of a mosque.

Muslims are now officially more numerous than the half-naked man worshippers from the Catholic sect.

Islam has surpassed Roman Catholicism as the world’s largest religion, the Vatican newspaper said Sunday.

“For the first time in history, we are no longer at the top: Muslims have overtaken us,” Monsignor Vittorio Formenti said in an interview with the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano. Formenti compiles the Vatican’s yearbook.

He said that Catholics accounted for 17.4 percent of the world population — a stable percentage — while Muslims were at 19.2 percent.

Good. That’ll teach ‘em. So much for the recent Fitna….it sure didn’t stop the tide.

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Let me see….first we have the Danish cartoons. Then it was that idiotic and bigoted statement from the so-called “Vicar of Christ”, Pope Benedict XVI, regarding the Prophet (P). More recently it was Geert Wilders’ Fitna movie. Now we are having bloggers bashing a proposal to reform the Shariah laws as discussed at a recent forum organised by the Institute of Islamic Understanding (IKIM) and the Syariah Judiciary Department Malaysia.

A seminar on Syariah Law review wants non-Muslims found committing khalwat (close proximity) with Muslims to also be held liable. This was among the proposals made at the two-day seminar organised by the Islamic Institute of Understanding Malaysia (Ikim) and the Syariah Judiciary Department Malaysia.

Syariah Court of Appeal Judge Datuk Mohd Asri Abdullah said the seminar had proposed that non-Muslims committing khalwat with Muslims should also be sentenced accordingly, but in the civil courts.

“We don’t have the jurisdiction to sentence non-Muslims committing khalwat with Muslims,” he told reporters after closing the seminar on behalf of department director-general Datuk Ibrahim Lembut at Ikim here today.

“The Muslims can be sentenced in Syariah courts, and the non-Muslim partners can probably be sentenced in the civil courts, to be fair to both parties.”

He said the proposal, contained in a draft resolution at the seminar, would be forwarded to the Attorney-General’s Chambers.

“It is up to the Attorney-General’s Chambers or the relevant authorities to decide how to create such a law,” he said.

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