Critical Thoughts

Kudos to the motion proposed by PAS Shah Alam division to urge the National Fatwa Council to investigate SIS or in short, Sisters In Shaitaan (I refuse to put the word “Islam” in their name) and ban them if the evidence is clear that they are deviants. As to where I am concerned, the issue is pretty much clear-cut to me: this “Sisters in Shaitaan” (SIS) group have been promoting liberal Islam for decades and the fallacies and deviance from mainstream Islam are too many to list down here. Reading the past writings of their founder-prophet will make it pretty clear that they regard the hijab as an “Arab custom” (conveniently dumping the verse in Surah an-Nur which exorts wearing it), forbidding and rejecting polygamy as a part of Islam (not practicing it is fine but disallowing it altogether is wrong) and  many other deviant teachings.

Suffice to say that the deviance has been going on for years with no action taken — its time that the buck stops here and the Sisters in Shaitaan is banned or disbanded…whichever comes first.

Confirmed, the fall of Kerajaan Negeri Perak Darul Ridzuan, under Pakatan Rakyat rule.

The office of the Sultan of Perak, in a statement on Wednesday, said that after meeting all the 28 Barisan Nasional assemblymen and the three independents, the Sultan was convinced that Mohammad Nizar had ceased to command the confidence of the majority of the state assembly members.

“If Datuk Seri Ir. Mohammad Nizar bin Jamaluddin does not resign his post as Perak mentri besar together with the members of the state executive council, the posts of mentri besar and state executive councilors are considered vacant,” the statement said.

Truly sad that it had to end this way (waving RM50 million sure does wonders, does it not?), but kudos to Datuk Seri Ir. Nizar Jamaluddin for having steered this state government for this long. It was an interesting 11-month rule, no doubt. Were it not for people from other parties having the tendency to hop, hop hop….it would certainly have lasted much longer.

Judging from the reports that I have been reading since today afternoon at The Malaysian Insider and everywhere else, it is already quite certain that the Pakatan state government will fall and Babi Negara (BN) is set to take over the state through the backdoor. I am not counting on any dissolving of the State Assembly either, as that possibly has dimmed with each passing hour.

And we have those “friends” from PKR and DAP to thank for this “change”. You don’t see any PAS assembymen defecting in this debacle, this whole thing started because of the other two “partners”. With friends like these, who needs enemies?

When I read this news, I breathed a real huge sigh of relief. I was already prepared for the worst should the decision go the other way and PAS, for some strange and bizarre reason, decides to form a pact with the United Melaun National Organisation, or in short U.M.N.O. In fact, I was already contemplating leaving the party should my worst fears be realised and PAS abandons its principles and work with this assabiyyah/secularist/rasuah party.

Pas has rejected any coalition government with Umno or the Barisan Nasional at both state or federal level, party president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang said today, ending the controversial unity talks with its ideological nemesis that have rocked both the ruling and opposition coalitions.

“The issue of Umno’s offer to Pas therefore does not arise,” Abdul Hadi said after a rare joint meeting between Pas’s central working committee and its highest decision-making body, the Majlis Syura Ulamak (religious scholars consultative council).

Kudos goes to the party leadership for their wise decision on the matter. The time for us is nigh and we are closing on Putrajaya. I can feel it.

It goes without question that as a life member of PAS, I oppose any idea or suggestion for a muzakarah (roundtable agreement) with the secularists of UMNO. I do not think that there will be any benefit into initiating such moves, as past experiences have shown. Also, these secularists sure have a bad track record when it comes to “cooperating” with Muslims who struggle for the cause of Islam. Take the Palestinian experience for example. Remember the so-called Hamas-Fatah “unity government”? Turns out that those secularists in Fatah have an axe to grind and nearly succeeded in their coup to oust Hamas from government in Gaza. Fortunately the Hamas leadership are not stupid donkeys which Fatah thought them to be.

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