Against hudud? Offer solutions to crime, Selangor PAS Youth tells DAP
(Malay Mail Online) – Selangor PAS Youth has challenged DAP to solve rising crime rate in the country today if it disagrees with PAS’ implementation of hudud, insisting that the Islamic penal law would achieve this goal.
The demand was made in a memorandum that was originally planned to be delivered to DAP’s national headquarters today, but which was cancelled at last minute by a directive from PAS secretary-general Datuk Mustafa Ali prohibiting the action.
“It is clear that current punishments and laws are unable to solve the public’s crime and safety issues. Therefore PAS has proposed the Shariah Criminal Code Enactment as the solution,” the Selangor wing chief Syarhan Humaizi Halim said in a statement.
“If DAP does not agree to PAS’ solution to the crime problem then we demand DAP to suggest its own solution to the crime problems occurring now.”
The wing also warned DAP against restricting PAS’s democratic right to table its private member’s Bills to pave way for hudud’s implementation, insisting that the Islamic law will only affect Muslims.
On March 19, the Kelantan state assembly approved the Shariah Criminal Code (II) (1993) 2015 Enactment with 31 votes from PAS lawmakers supported by 12 from Umno.
PAS is now seeking to debate two private members’ bills in Parliament to enable Kelantan to enforce hudud ― one will seek approval for the state to legislate punishment for crimes under the Penal Code.
In return, DAP had pilloried PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang for his party’s hudud push, saying it will no longer work with him even as it vowed to remain in the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) pact.
In a strongly-worded open letter last week, Hadi claimed that critics of “violent” punishments under hudud were ignoring the barbaric nature of capital and corporal punishments currently prescribed by secular criminal law.
The PAS president said hudud was unfairly targeted by those who perceived it as savage, even when it is only a single part of the varied and comprehensive Islamic criminal laws.
The disagreement over hudud has prompted DAP to abandon the Pakatan Rakyat alliance in east Malaysia, and suspend co-operation with the supposed ally at various other levels.
