Seriously, who's challenging Islam in Malaysia?
YOURSAY ‘Sharipudin, you should learn to look at your own baloney.’
Isma: Who says Chinese are our enemies?
David Dass:
This is a pretty ambiguous statement from Isma consultative council (syura) head Sharipudin Ab Kadir.
He seems to be saying that Isma members are brothers in faith to Muslims only, whatever their ethnicity or colour.
Buddhists, Hindus and Christians do not accept Muhammad as their prophet. Buddhists follow their eight-fold path to Nirvana, Hindus worship God through their own revealed scripture and Christians follow their Bible.
This does not mean that they do not respect Muslims or Islam. Each has his own way. An examination of the fundamental truths of each religion will show an adherence to similar truths and codes of conduct.
CHKS: Let's recall what Isma president Abdullah Zaik Abdul Rahman said : “The Chinese came to this country with the British as intruders. Who gave them citizenship and wealth to the extent that the fruits of their intrusion are protected to this day?”
Abdullah Zaik went on to urge the Malays to correct this "historical mistake" and called on Malays to protect the sovereignty of Islam and Malays in “Tanah Melayu”.
Tell me, Isma, where did you say that only Chinese who challenge Islam are your enemies?
When you want to incite hatred among the Malays, you use religion. When you want to create fear in people's hearts, you use religion. Now you want to escape the law, you use religion. When are you going to repent?
Proarte: Sharipudin is nothing but a coward who is attempting damage control but in the process, he reveals he is a religious bigot. Essentially he has said that those who are not Muslim are his 'foes'.
What relevance do his comments about those challenging Islam or who have no regard for Muhammad or Islam got to do with the Chinese per se? Why are non-Muslims 'foes' by default?
All his comments are a complete red herring which do not edify Islam or the Malay race. Sadly, they reflect badly on his race and supposed faith Islam.
The real issue is the seditious comments which Abdullah Zaik made about the Chinese 'intruders' attempting to undermine Islam and the Malays.
The federal constitution guarantees non-Muslims the right to worship in peace and harmony.
Sharipudin hasn't helped Abdullah Zaik's cause as he has added to the litany of racist, bigoted and seditious comments made by Isma by now regarding non-Muslims as 'foes'. Isma is abusing Islam by using it as a fig leaf for its nefarious aims.
Anonymous_1394346314: As a Muslim and a Malay, I am sick and tired of these imbeciles reciting hatred and racist craps against the non-Malays.
Yes, we enjoyed and continue to enjoy the NEP (New Economic Policy) for decades and that has lifted our economical status but the time has come to reassess such NEP, especially with so much corruption.
Malaysia is a great country with so much potentials, the non-Malays contribution can never be disputed and denied.
I am embarrassed by morons like Abdullah Zaik and his cohorts - they don't represent every Malay's view.
My fellow Chinese and Indian Malaysians, I and many Malay Malaysians want you to know
that we embrace you all as our brothers and sisters. One day, we will all enjoy equal rights under the same flag we are so proud of.
Onyourtoes: Sharipudin, you should learn to look at your own baloney. Your world is always "us" and "them", nothing more, nothing less. You can't see the goodness of others who are different from you.
Race has nothing to do with character and competency. Religion has nothing to do with truth, heaven and hell, except to those who believe. You divide people using your moronic, insular and meaningless criteria.
To you, only Muslims are your brothers and sisters, but you know they do kill each other in many countries, and sometimes they need the non-Muslims to keep peace. I think a whole generation of Malaysians has grown up indoctrinated with your toxin.
Wg321: Sharipudin said that "we love our race because the Malays are Muslims". If that is so why are the Malay who are Shia and Ahmadiyyah persecuted in Malaysia?
JMC: Sharipudin has just changed from promoting Malay to Muslim supremacy. He fails to understand that by allowing religious diversity, God has sanctioned all religions to exist as they do. They are all equal in his eyes.
Anyone who promotes the supremacy of any one religion will be going against will of God himself.
Mohican: To love God is to love all his creation. Those who do not follow this precept does not love God, and truly is faithless and misguided.
God does not approve of selfish love only for a few select ones for if he does then the sun won't be shinning on everyone equally.
All men are brothers and only the civil and decent amongst us live in peace with one another. God even said, love your enemies and do good to them.
That is the true God speaking. For if you only love those who love you, what good is it?
Casey: Far from protecting their religion and race, fools and bigots like Abdullah Zaik, who cannot and will not reason, are indeed insulting the good Malays and the sanctity of Islam.
Despite their claims to the contrary, the prejudice, the insult and the hatred that they spew are not archetypes of the good Allah-fearing men. I've many Muslim friends of Malays, Indian and Pakistani descent, and I've never had any problem with that.
I was delivered by a Malay ‘bidan kampung’ (midwife) whom I respectfully called Mak; and to her husband, I called Pak. Until today, they live on in my heart as Mak and Pak, along with my father and mother.
My Mak and Pak may have been poor in material wealth; but they were personification of dignity, tolerance, generosity and kindness. They were every bit the good Muslims that the likes of Abdullah Zaik and Sharipudin can only pretend to be.
Samurai: I am sure these Isma people are unleashed for the sole purpose of keeping everyone fighting so they forget about the real problem in Malaysia, those 'intruders' who are robbing our coffers in broad daylight.
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