Bukan di Indonesia, tapi di Malaysia..
Tapi jangan lupa, Laskar assunnah wa Jammah telah
merajam salah seorng anggotanya di Ambon...
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Malaysian Islamic party still wants stonings
Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:25am EST
By Liau Y-Sing
KAMPUNG PULAU MELAKA, Malaysia (Reuters) - Malaysia's
Islamist opposition party called on non-Muslims on
Thursday to back its election campaign to apply strict
sharia law, including amputations and stonings, for
the country's Muslims.
Parti Islam se-Malaysia (PAS) is trying to broaden its
appeal beyond the predominantly Muslim heartland at
the next election, which is expected by political
experts to be called by end-March and to be fought
partly on the issue of rising street crime.
"The people want the best and there is nothing better
than Islam," Nik Aziz Nik Mat, 77, told Reuters after
morning prayers at his home in the largely rural
northeast state of Kelantan, ruled by PAS since 1990.
An Egyptian-educated scholar, Nik Aziz said
non-Muslims had nothing to fear from strict sharia
punishments, known as hudud, and a lot to gain from
them, especially Malaysia's large and wealthy ethnic
Chinese minority.
"It is more important for the Chinese to accept hudud
laws because those who steal do not steal from the
poor," said Nik Aziz, who wore a skullcap, white shirt
and sarong.
"Who steals from the poor?"
Hudud laws would not apply to non-Muslims if the Pas
campaign succeeds in the end.
Nik Aziz's spartan, single-storey home of green brick
and wood sits next to a mosque and a religious school
in a traditional Malay village. Malays constitute
virtually the entire Muslim population and are defined
as Muslim under the constitution.
"Thieves steal from the rich and the Chinese are more
well-off than the Malays. If a thief's hand is
amputated and he goes to the football field or he goes
to the market, people can see that he is a thief," he
said.
"Everyone will be afraid and won't steal."
Malaysia, a collection of Islamic kingdoms in medieval
times, still treats Islam as its only official
religion, though waves of Chinese and Indian migration
in the last two centuries have dramatically changed
the racial and religious landscape.
More than 40 percent of Malaysian are now non-Muslim.
RACIAL TENSIONS
"It's not impossible for hudud to be implemented,"
said a Muslim watch-seller who gave his name as Nor,
as he sipped coffee near his stall at a street market
in Kelantan.
"It's a good deterrent, but it's not easy to be
implemented because there are so many races."
Malaysia has been run since independence in 1957 by a
multi-racial coalition of Malay, Chinese and Indian
parties, which is considered the only political
structure that can govern and keep a lid on Malaysia's
religious tensions.
But Malaysia's opposition factions have been unable to
come together. The main opposition Democratic Action
Party, which is backed by mainly Chinese voters, says
it could never go into a coalition with PAS while it
retains its Islamist platform.
"It appears they still have a political death wish,"
said Lim Guan Eng, secretary-general of the Democratic
Action Party, when he was told of Nik Aziz's latest
comments.
"That is why we cannot cooperate with PAS... We
believe that a theocratic (federal) state is not
appropriate for Malaysia. Even the Muslims themselves
don't agree with a theocratic state."
Malaysia's current Islamic legal system deals mainly
with issues such as apostasy and family matters, such
as divorce. It cannot mete out severe punishments such
as stoning for adultery. Even in Kelantan, the PAS
state government says federal law prevents it from
instituting these punishments.
In 2004, PAS fared poorly in general elections, just
clinging onto Kelantan and losing power in neighboring
Terengganu state. Since then, some younger and more
pragmatic leaders have moved up the ranks, trying to
move the party beyond its Muslim heartland.
But the party platform remains unchanged.
(Writing and additional reporting by Mark Bendeich;
Editing by Bill Tarrant)
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Jusfiq Hadjar gelar Sutan Maradjo Lelo
Allah yang disembah orang Islam tipikal dan yang digambarkan oleh al-Mushaf itu
dungu, buas, kejam, keji, ganas, zalim lagi biadab hanyalah Allah fiktif.
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