So much negativity has been dedicated to the Jabatan Agama Islam Wilayah Persekutuan (Jawi) for their recent crackdown on activities which promote moral decay. While I regret Jawi's rough and overboard methods, I support the laws they are trying to enforce.

Detractors argue that morality should not be legislated. The question is, who should rule on this? Who has the right to say what should be legislated and what not? Who's to say that the liberal's view is more superior to that of Islam's? Are we Muslims to be forced to rid ourselves of our religious teachings just so we can become politically-correct?

Paradoxically, while the same liberals promote freedom of belief, they at the same time try to force their views down Muslims' throats. Is this not adopting a 'holier-than-thou' attitude? Do those who do not subscribe to their views deemed evil?

I am appalled by the double-standards demonstrated by the liberals. I do agree that Jawi may have gone too far in how they treated the Muslim youth detained in the club raid, but the fact remains that the youths had committed a misdemeanor and as such, had to deal with the law.

The debate that I am seeing now moves along the line of whether the liberal or the Islamic view is more superior. My view is that the liberals are challenged when handling a diversity of views especially when a view contradicts their code of morality. They are not open enough to recognise other's right to have a different view from that of theirs.

My advice to liberals is for them to be more tolerant and open to others' norms and belief structures.