Bossku goes to jail but beware his deeply rooted influence within UMNO
“In Islamic jurisprudence, there are no precedents where a person could take an oath to disclaim one’s guilt. This is why in Islamic law, all due diligence must be performed to ensure that the person is not wrongly accused of fitnah (malicious libel).”
(Focus Malaysia) – THE past 24 hours has been hectic for newsmen who least expected the Federal Court to uphold the “guilty as charged” and “off you go to jail” verdict by both the High Court and Court of Appeal on ex-premier Datuk Seri Najib Razak – in such a short notice, so to speak.
Reminiscing of what the past 24 hours meant to Malaysians, head honcho of independent think tank Dr Rais Hussin chided ex-premier Datuk Seri Najib Razak for resorting to a sumpah laknat (an oath where the confessor calls upon God to punish him if he has told a lie) to prove his innocence.
“The fact that Najib was willing to take the oath (sumpah laknat) – of all places in the mosque – just mere days before his guilty verdict was handed down, was a testament to the extent that he and his henchmen in and outside of UMNO were willing to go to abuse the tenet of Islamic laws,” lamented the president and CEO of EMIR Research.
“In Islamic jurisprudence, there are no precedents where a person could take an oath to disclaim one’s guilt. This is why in Islamic law, all due diligence must be performed to ensure that the person is not wrongly accused of fitnah (malicious libel).”
In order to retain his family’s seat of power in Pahang – consequently as the MP of Pekan – Rais said Najib has long begun to hone his son to succeed him in the event he is stripped of all eligibilities.
“This again is an attempt to retain his grip in the establishment, no matter how tenuous it can be, to potentially use his son’s potential position in the parliamentary system to make various tactical manoeuvres that can cleanse his guilt and to stay within an earshot of getting a Royal Pardon one day,” envisaged Rais.
“The Royal institutions of Malaysia – including the army and police and the Islamic institutions that come under the chain of command of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and the respective nine Sultans in Malaysia, should be forewarned of the upcoming shenanigans of UMNO, the political party that he is associated with.”
