Whenever someone condemns something done or not done by a Muslim and even if the accusation had been directed against the individual rather than his religion, we get the usual group of 'staunch' Muslims who would rush out mindlessly in hurried defence of their religion.

These people feel moral-bound to defend what they perceive to be an attack on Islam per se, regardless of the evil perpetrated. Hence their absurd call for non-Muslims to butt out and not comment on the recent Jawi raid .

With regards to the youths detained, whatever alleged offences they had committed has been superseded by the far greater immoral conduct of perverts hiding behind the good name of Islam.

It's not the Jawi officials' religious mindset that we condemn. It's their puerile, leering, bullying, lustful behaviour that we find disgraceful. Our contempt for these despicable officials has nothing to do with Islam.

In fact, their alleged shameful conduct had been most immoral and un-Islamic. I cannot see how ogling women's bodies with lustful looks (abetted with misused authority) can ever be supported by any Muslims.

Those officers have been an absolute disgrace to Islam in sexually harassing women. Any righteous society, including Islamic ones, should find such nasty ill-behaved officials repugnant.

Those poor creatures had attempted to salvage what little modesty they had left, but instead of showing compassion and moral rectitude by handing out blankets or sarongs to assist those women cover up their alleged non-Islamic indiscretion, those officials had actually insisted on aggravating it, for their own lust.

One such goon had even asked a woman whether her body piercing observed around the naval region had been extended to her private organs.

Was this behaviour Islamic? Which Islamic law requires such invasive questioning? Regardless of religion, would it have been appropriate for a moral policeman to ask such an immoral question regarding a woman's most personal part?

Wasn't that a verbal rape of the woman's body? Is such puerile interrogation part of Islamic jurisprudence? Wouldn't a decent man, let alone a moral policeman, have offered the frightened women some protective clothing?

If Muslims do not wish to say anything about this disgraceful bureaucratic conduct that has, in fact, insulted Islam, then please leave it to non-Muslim Malaysians to save the good name of Islam. We must disassociate such lustful goons from Jawi swiftly.

Even as Prime Minister Abdullah Ahamd Badawi offers the nations of the Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) his concept of Islam Hadhari, these Jawi officials are undermining his proposal.

What sniggers would have been heard behind the prime minister's back at the OIC if even his own Malaysia couldn't get it right? Jawi stands out as the culprit which is against the spirit of Islam Hadhari.