The Malay Mail column by Shafiqah Othman Hamzah entitled ‘The hypocrisy of Malay Muslims’ may have been very truth-seeking and truth-speaking but I suspect it will create severe emotional reactions against the writer. Not her fault but this is the the kind and quality of Islam preached and moderated by the Malaysian Islamic Development Agency (Jakim) et al.

On Sunday, another columnist in Sunday Mail whom I admire too, Zurairi AR, also postulated, ‘When Muslims suddenly ‘discover’ freedom of speech’. He, too, opens up the same issue of institutionalised nature of hypocrisy of the kind and quality of Islam practised in Malaysia.

Allow me therefore to raise some questions which may be rhetorical at best, since I am not a Muslim although I am committed and surrendered to God Almighty.