Should Malaysia become a secular or Christian nation, it will not be Islam that is offended. It’s just people who obviously were not granted the brains, patience or even sensitivity to understand that the first basis of the religion itself is to find moderation.

Hafidz Baharom, The Malaysian Insider

First and foremost, having a Christian prime minister is not an insult to Islam, nor is allowing a nation to become secular or even Christian.

Take a look at Germany. Their president and chancellor belong to the Christian Democratic Union Party. Yet, Islam is still alive and well in their nation.

If that’s too much for you to imagine, take a look at Netherlands then. Ruled by a monarch and extremely secular, their prime minister is from the VVD and his deputy is from the Christian Democratic Appeal party. Yet still, Islam is there, alive and well enough to be the cause of Theo Van Gogh’s death.

Should Malaysia become a secular or Christian nation, it will not be Islam that is offended. It’s just people who obviously were not granted the brains, patience or even sensitivity to understand that the first basis of the religion itself is to find moderation.

If a Muslim does wrong, he or she is told to repent. If a non-Muslim says something wrong, we are told, through Islamic teaching, to educate them and find a peaceful solution.

What I believe this means is that if we were to understand our religion properly, and if our muftis had any interest in preaching moderation, they would tell people to shut up and mind their own business instead of forwarding text messages of conversions to Christianity like a certain mufti, wreaking havoc and turmoil while fuelling Malay tabloids with enough material to incite hatred.

Islam dictates that we are only to resort to violence when there is clear provocation, not before. And a cartoon by a Norwegian newspaper is not a provocation enough to kill anyone nor is it a justification for a call to jihad and protest with placards written in bad English that just shows how bad your level of education is.

Muhammad (pbuH) and his followers would never have called for a jihad on the basis of a blog stating that there were people in Penang who said that they would make this 60 per cent Muslim nation a Christian one.

You know what he would do? Or what any rational leader would do?

Bring in the journalist and the bloggers, and ask them to produce witnesses to this so-called declaration. If he fails, cane him for the spreading of fitnah.

A leader, in this case, our prime minister, should know better than to just simply shrug the accusation off and explain parliamentary conduct to amend the Constitution. I think this is where Datuk Seri Najib Razak and his home minister of a cousin failed.

The lack of swift action or any action whatsoever against people like those in Perkasa, now that is an insult to Islam because, if anything, Islam cherishes harmony and tells us to act swiftly against rumours.

It also tells us to forgo belief in rumours without witnesses. But somehow, Malay genetics being what they are — a low brain cell count and a high hormone imbalance somewhere down the line — resulted in the Malay male population going out and protesting the dumbest things.

There is no greater insult to Islam than those who selectively preach the religion for personal gain. That goes for any religion. We saw it with George Bush, we saw it with PAS, and now, we’re seeing it with Perkasa.

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Comments (7)

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written by AtanSian, June 03, 2011 16:29:12

Islam, internationally, suffers from a lack of quality standards for its "teachers'.

All kinds of semi-literate charalatans can claim to teach the faith.

These are scared stiff of their illiteracy being discovered,
so they pander to the lowest form of persuation - sowing paranoic fear as their response anyhting and they do not understand ...
which is nearly everything.. outside of the few verses of the Koran that they have learnt to recite..

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written by Fart Fart Wah, June 01, 2011 22:59:17

Very well written. I presume you are a Malay?and a Muslim? Well if this goes to UMNOBIGDOGS/Perkasa and the Malay NGOs you are now officially an apostate. ..murtad for supporting a Christian PM. Well you are right there are many Malays..kampung Malays who follow the above groups like puppies and are frozen in time. They have not evolved from the jungle that they came out once upon a time and are finding it hard to evolve into rational human beings. Scientists should study these Malays..we can probably find the missing link that they are searching for where they claim that man is a product of gene enhancement from apes.
Scientists are fellows who do not think out of the box..they want a biological species that would answer the anthropological question of a physical ape changing. They never looked into the slow development of brains for some human species for some in other parts of the world. So this missing link could be found among these Malays who have not evolved but are stuck on tribe and malay space.

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written by syd, June 01, 2011 18:56:31

i dunno the relevance of religion. it only shackles a person's thought.
we must be open minded, and accept the way that works. it is so simple.

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written by Saint, June 01, 2011 17:29:46

History has shown us that keeping religion out of state politics has helped a nation to grow peacefully.
Wise men keep religion to themselves and not 'force it into others".

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written by eloofk, June 01, 2011 16:52:13

cont from where i had stopped......"or any non-muslim for that matter???"

Sorry - My apologies for taking up space and time from you guys!!!

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written by eloofk, June 01, 2011 16:39:18

The governing of a country has nothing to do with race or religion. It all started with that evil Mamak who had turned our country into a secular state of extremism and had his proxy in the name of Ibrahim Katak Ali to further advance his cause for a motive!!!

It is those extremists who had given Islam a bad name. Where in the Koran has it say that muslims calls for killing, to belittle, to rape, to steal, to rob or to shame another muslim???

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written by hellosunshine, June 01, 2011 16:25:27

Nobody is interested or want to insult Islam without cause or reason. It is only the extremist Muslims themselves who are insulting Islam with their extremist intolerant behavior and rhetoric of hatred, killings and beheadings. These are the people who make other non Muslims have a dim view/opinion of Islam and they will threaten others for having this view or opinion. Go figure.

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