How did PAS mess up on Hudud?

By MT Webmaster Last updated Aug 25, 2015

The real problem is not Hudud. Hudud is just part of the Sharia. So the real problem is the Sharia. You can avoid having to talk about Hudud if you just abolish the Sharia and be done with it. No Sharia, then no Hudud. Simple!

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Raja Petra Kamarudin

Siti Mariah said that PAS messed up on Hudud (SEE THE NEWS ITEM BELOW). How did PAS mess up on Hudud?

According to Siti Mariah, first of all “DAP would never agree to the introduction of Hudud as long as there wasn’t a proper understanding of it among the Chinese community”.

So this means PAS must first educate the Chinese about what Hudud is and only after that can DAP accept Hudud and once DAP is able to accept Hudud should PAS push for its implementation.

Siti Mariah then went on to explain that even the late Tok Guru Nik Aziz Nik Mat did not consider Hudud as a big deal — “that it is only a small part of what Islam is all about.”

For someone who did not consider Hudud important, why the hell did the Kelantan State Government pass the Sharia Amendment Bill in 1993 to include Hudud when Nik Aziz was the then Menteri Besar of Kelantan? Nik Aziz had the power as the party’s spiritual leader and the head honcho of Kelantan to tell PAS to just fook Hudud.

Siti Mariah concluded by saying, “I did not betray the trust of the people and am still fighting for Islam. But we have to move on. In the end, it’s too difficult for us in Selangor to accept PAS’ decision (to sever ties with DAP) because we all agreed to win Putrajaya in the name of Pakatan Rakyat.”

Siti Mariah may not support the implementation of Hudud but she is still ‘fighting for Islam’. She did not explain what she is fighting for, in what way she is fighting, and against which enemy she is fighting.

Maybe she is fighting against Umno, a party that PAS had declared back in the 1980s as a party of infidels because it opposes Islam and Hudud. Is Umno still a party of infidels? Are all those others such as MCA, MIC, etc., that oppose Hudud also parties of infidels? Would that not also make DAP and PKR parties of infidels? And what about GHB that also opposes Hudud? Is this, too, a party of infidels?

Oh, and according to Siti Mariah, it was PAS that divorced DAP and declared that Pakatan Rakyat no longer exists and is now dead and not DAP that divorced PAS and declared that Pakatan Rakyat no longer exists and is now dead.

Well, instead of attempting to educate the Chinese about what Hudud is why not start with the Malays and make them understand the issue? Hudud is merely about the punishment for what Islam considers as crimes. And this punishment is based on what the Qur’an, Hadith, Sunnah and ulama’ decree — if, of course, you believe in those sorts of things.

Siti Mariah and those others opposed to Hudud did not reveal whether they still accept what is considered as crimes in Islam. They just disagree with the punishment for Muslims who commit those crimes.

Alright, let us put aside murder, robbery, theft, rape, etc. Those crimes are already covered under laws passed by Parliament and whether you are Muslim or non-Muslim you will be punished for those crimes. But there are other crimes that just Muslims get punished for while non-Muslims are exempted for punishment.

Drinking, gambling, extramarital sex, living outside wedlock, adultery, close proximity, not fasting, not praying, not paying fitrah, apostasy, heresy, rejecting the Qur’an, rejecting the Hadith, rejecting Prophet Muhammad, etc., are crimes that only Muslims would get punished for. For non-Muslims nothing is going to happen.

So what have the Chinese got to do with this? Why do we need to first educate the Chinese? Do the Chinese care whether Muslims who eat during the month of Ramadhan get arrested or not?

The Sharia is the real problem. In many Muslim countries it is the Sharia that is the cause of all their problems. So if GHB can ‘fight’ to abolish the Sharia then the problem of Hudud can be solved. Why argue about what is the punishment under Hudud for illicit sex and drinking when the real problem is illicit sex and drinking should not even be crimes in the first place.

Is Siti Mariah and GHB prepared to go down that road?

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PAS messed up on hudud, says Siti Mariah

(Free Malaysia Today) – In announcing the resignation of nearly 200 office bearers from the Kota Raja PAS division yesterday, MP Siti Mariah Mahmud blamed the Islamist party’s mishandling of the hudud issue for the break-up of Pakatan Rakyat.

She said PAS’ relentlessness in pursuing the implementation of hudud contributed to a misunderstanding of the Islamic penal code and an exaggeration of its importance in the Islamic political struggle, and this alienated it from Pakatan Rakyat’s non-Muslim supporters.

At yesterday’s press conference, Siti Mariah, who was vice-president of the Kota Raja PAS division, said she and 183 other office bearers at various levels of the division would join Gerakan Harapan Baru (GHB), the group formed by PAS members opposed to the ulama leadership of the party.

PAS has made it clear that any member joining GHB would be expelled from the party. Those who resigned with Siti Mariah included Jaafar Shamsuddin, the president of Kota Raja PAS.

She said PAS members ought to remember what the party’s late spiritual guide, Nik Aziz Nik Mat, said about hudud – that it is only a small part of what Islam is all about.

She added that DAP would never agree to the introduction of hudud as long as there wasn’t a proper understanding of it among the Chinese community.

She said DAP’s concerns were strictly political. She said she had discussions on the issue with DAP leaders and found that “they are not completely against hudud.”

The Kota Raja MP also said she did not feel her departure from PAS was an act of betrayal against voters in the 2013 general election, reasoning that the voters were really giving their support to Pakatan Rakyat.

“I did not betray the trust of the people and am still fighting for Islam,” she said and added that PAS, having left Pakatan Rakyat, was no longer viable in Selangor.

She admitted that it was a hard decision for her to make because her election victory was largely due to PAS’ work.

“But we have to move on,” she said. “In the end, it’s too difficult for us in Selangor to accept PAS’ decision (to sever ties with DAP) because we all agreed to win Putrajaya in the name of Pakatan Rakyat.”

Raja Petra Kamarudin RPK