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Undilah PAS : MENENTANG KEZALIMAN & MENEGAKKAN KEADILAN
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The National Front, so it thought, could go to town with it. Kuala
Lumpur religious affairs officials raided a flat in a suburb after
midnight on saturday, to arrest a couple for khalwat, the man the
60-year-old retired headmaster, Mr Idris Ibrahim, the elder brother of
the ousted deputy prime minister, Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim. Since Mr
Idris Ibrahim is also active in Parti Keadilan Negara (keADILan), it
provided the National Front with grist to spread the gospel of a
political party suffused with sodomists and bigamists. The identify of
the man was confirmed by the minister in charge of religion in the prime
minister's department, Dato' Abdul Hamid Othman, who confirmed the
filing of charges and a righteous declaration of no political motive but
old-fashioned tip-off unearthed the man. The Utusan Malaysia and TV3
named him. The Star was more discreet: it did not name him, but said
the arrests followed two reported lodged. The woman, in her thirties,
arrested with Mr Idris, was unidentified. They were to have been
charged in the syariah court, possibly with mattress in tow, today, with
the evening news all set to splash the news all over.
That did not happen. The government, instead, is splattered with
egg on its face. Mr Idris Ibrahim, it turns out, was caught for khalwat
with his own wife, his second whom he married four years ago in
Thailand. This is not a secret, but, yes, his wife, is far younger than
he is, but his wife nevertheless. This evening, the Utusan and other
newspapers, along with the religious affairs officials and, possibly
Dato' Hamid Othman, faces the prospect of a libel action from Mr Idris.
What it thought a sure-fire campaign issue went horribly wrong. The
newspapers must now grovel wholesome apologies, defend a libel action
with the religious affairs department and others; the government must
explain why its religious affairs officials went on an unjustified
rampage to harass Mr Idris. And the glee in which it was reported.
But this also raise serious concerns of Rambo-like religious
affairs breaking down doors in the middle of the night to arrest people
caught in sin, of Muslim men and women not married to each other being
caught for the Islamic offence of khalwat. The religious affairs
officials justify what they do as to preserve the moral fibre of
Muslims. But how moral is it to break down of doors of a married
couple's bedroom on a mere suspicion they live in sin? Why should a
married couple have to prove their relationship every time religious
affairs officials think they live in sin? The religious affairs
officials should have verified before they acted. But they do not.
They should have talked to them before they rushed in blindly. How did
the minister become involved in what is an administrative procedure?
Would he have been involved if the man arrested is a lorry driver? So,
why this special treatment unless it was to further a political
objective? Was it to paint keAdilan as a party of sodomists and
adulterers? More important, why this penchant to break down doors in
the hours after midnight to root out Muslim adulterers? Would the
police take action against these religious officials for trespassing, as
they clearly are in this case, and for damaging private property?
What frightens about is how religious affairs officials act on
unproven reports of khalwat by persons unknown. More than a decade ago,
the Thai military attache was on holiday in Kuala Trengganu with his
wife in Trengganu when religious affairs broke down their hotel door to
arrest them for khalwat. Their protestations that they were Buddhists,
diplomats, Thai citizens married to each other did not cut much ice.
They did not, of course, have their marriage certificates about them,
their diplomatic papers seized in the raid disappeared when the enormity
of what they had done struck them. So they brazened it out, and forced
the couple to spend a night in jail before a sheepish state government
released them the next morning with profuse apologies. A Singaporean
couple, a Hindu and his Muslim wife, allowable in Singapore if the wife
is not a Malay, was caught for khalwat in Cameron Highlands, an issue
which threatened bilateral ties severely. The Pahang religious
authorities, who arrested them, insisted they should be tried for
khalwat since they could not produce their marriage certificate. There
are many such issues, hidden from public eye but causing fright and
concern amongst thinking Malaysians, Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
When religion is used supercilliously to threaten and harrass, with such
stupiditie as the demand for a marriage certificate of a couple on
honeymoon or a husband and wife married for four years, of Muslims and
non-Muslims alike, is what one fears of an Islam used to wound and
harass Muslims and non-Muslims alike. In the case of Mr Idris Ibrahim,
the government has to explain why it targets the family of He Who Must
Be Destroyed At All Cost now. Could the deputy prime minister, Dato'
Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, care to explain why and how this happened?
M.G.G. Pillai
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