GEORGE TOWN: DAP has maintained that there is no consensus among Pakatan Rakyat members on the implementation of hudud law in the country despite PAS' push for the policy.Its chairman Karpal Singh said that implementing hudud law would be problematic besides posing a dangerous threat to the country.
“This is totally not workable as Malaysia is a secular state as set out under the Federal Constitution,” said Karpal, who is also Bukit Gelugor MP, at a press conference in Air Itam here yesterday.
He said both DAP and PKR had taken a firm stand against hudud law in Malaysia.
Karpal was commenting on a statement by Kedah Islamic Religious, Education and Cooperative Committee chairman Datuk Mohamed Taulan Mat Rasul during a state assembly meeting that it would implement hudud law after Kelantan.
On Kedah MCA chairman Datuk Chong Itt Chew's criticisms against DAP and PKR for keeping silent over the issue, he said MCA should not criticise DAP because its stand had been clear all the time.
Chong had said that as both DAP and PKR had campaigned for PAS, they would indirectly contribute towards the removal of non-Muslims' rights and opportunities under hudud law.
He claimed that although the Syariah Criminal Enactment, which had been passed in Kelantan, was yet to be officially adopted in Kedah, there was already some semblance of an ultra-conservative ideology enforced by local authorities.
Chong had also questioned why Kedah was copying Kelantan, which already earned brickbats from the public over its policy.
At a separate press conference in Tanjung Bungah yesterday, Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said the implementation of hudud law was not a consensus among Pakatan's parties.
“Different parties may have different stands but hudud law is definitely not Pakatan Rakyat's common policy,” said Lim, who is also DAP secretary-general.
tunku : the melodrama keeps playing it's play again and again. everyone is trying to fool the people. the people should not trust these jokers.
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Thrd World countries that used religion to replace politics are coming, if they have not already come to the painful conclusion, that no religion is any longer a sufficient basis for creation of a stable state. In this internet age the state itself and the way we get our information has changed too much for that. This is being palyed out right in front in a certain state in the sub-continent.In many of the so called failed states in the Third World we see the resurgence of the old, or we like to put it the good old days, and the new suppressed idologies. As people power and forced general elections under Internation Supervision takes place in the Third World the "legitimate" new government with all their enthisiasm find that they have, more often than not, inherited a "gangster state". The five year time-frame given to them to fix the state by excavating it from beneath the rubble of dogmatism and tyrany is just insufficient and hence they, too, go back to the old bad ways of their predecessors.
In the past the role to pick the state form the rubble of history was left to the only organised force in the state-the military. But in recent history the other organised force of religion has taken the lead role in making new laws for the running of the state.Those state that resorted to that religious force in the Third World have reached that painful crossroad where the only way to a sustainable future lies in an a post religious era.
Malaysian leaders have always been proud of themsepves for being moderate in their actions. They is truth in this. Otherwise Malaysia could not have survived 48 years of independence in peace. Man seldom profits form the experiences of other and never form his own. But here we must be careful before what we wish for ouselves because once the bullet is fired there is no way we can recall it.
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