The response given by Umno Youth deputy head Khairy Jamaludin on moral policing by officers from the Jabatan Agama Islam Wilayah Persekutuan (Jawi) was rather disappointing. One had hoped that he would follow Sisters in Islam and Culture, Arts and Heritage Minister Dr Rais Yatim in condemning the raid as unnecessary in this day and age of modernity.

Instead, he has cleverly chosen to deflect the issue by saying that Jawi must first define what is moral and what is not. Well, that is easier said than done. Because what is one man's meat is another man's poison.

Hence, for instance, in a pub or disco, how low can the plunge line in a blouse be before it is considered immoral? Even then, if it is too low, most men would enjoy ogling rather than condemning. And this is what God has made women to be - to be sexy, beautiful and attractive to men.

Hence, if a women wishes to dress sexily, that is only natural and what nature has prescribed. Of course, religion and common sense and decency have their own role to play. Hence, if a couple or a person were to behave indecently in a pub or disco, the management would ask them to stop or evict them.

One does not need any official government officer to be around to monitor morality. I think religions should be restricted territorially to mosques, churches and temples. By all means, preach all you can on Fridays or Sundays or in schools during moral or religious classes.

But once school, church or Friday prayers are over, let the secular take over. Let the police - not the moral police - police our lives through universal laws and values and not through narrow and myopic guidelines which are almost always interpreted by a few so-called experts who often turn out to be religious bigots.