It’s official: Malay Muslim rights organization Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia (ISMA) is definitely on a roll. Keeping up their media profile for the week, the controversial NGO today opined that the hotly-debated hudud law, the Islamic penal code, should apply to all Malaysians should it be implemented, not just Muslims.
ISMA president Abdullah Zaik Abdul Rahman said hudud should be put into effect for the sake of the country’s “well-being”, explaining that severe punishments such as amputation for theft would deter criminals from committing offences.
The Malaysian Insider‘s Elizabeth Zachariah quotes Abdullah as saying, “Yes, it should be for all. For Muslims, it is for the forgiveness of sins. And for the non-Muslims, it is in national interests and to safeguard the public.”
Perhaps to somehow sweeten the deal to non-Malays (who Abdullah automatically thinks are also non-Muslim), he said that if Malays stole from the Chinese, the penalty would be the same as a case of Chinese stealing from the Malays.
“So with this, Chinese cannot steal from the Malays and vice versa. And it is not fair if only one race gets punished for stealing and the other doesn’t.”
The Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) have already announced that it would launch sedition investigations on Abdullah and ISMA over the president’s remarks calling ethnic Chinese Malaysians “intruders” and questioning the community’s right to Malaysian citizenship and the opportunity to make a living here.
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