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Pahang will continue with vice raids, says regent

Pahang will continue with anti-vice operations, including through raids at residences or other premises like hotels to prevent immoral activities, Pahang regent Tengku Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah said today.

Tengku Abdullah said what was important was to ensure actions taken by the enforcement team were not done hastily, but in accordance with the law and regulations, such as getting the approval of the police and the local authorities.

The regent said this in response de facto Islamic Affairs MInister Mujahid Yusof Rawa being initially reported by The Star as saying there would be no more night khalwat raids or intrusion into Muslims’ private lives..

"That is the view of the minister concerned, but at the state level, particularly Pahang, we will continue (with the enforcement) to curb syariah crime,” he said after opening a chess workshop for school students here today.

However, Mujahid later clarified that he never said that there would be an end to vice raids, only that the intrusion into the private sphere "does not reflect methods in Islamic teachings."

"In my interview with The Star, what was mentioned in the headline did not come out from my mouth.

"I only spoke about the issue of offence, or what is said to be the public sphere and private sphere.

"I highlighted the abuse of power and intrusion into the private sphere, which does not reflect methods in Islamic teachings," he said.

Tengku Abdullah, who is also the Pahang Islamic Religious and Malay Customs Council president, said more awareness programmes would be organised to prevent the public from committing syariah offences.

"This programme is more apt, in fact better than punishment. We want to educate, and not only penalise them (offenders).

“Hopefully, it will make the young people more religion-abiding, as well as make them stay away from vice or other syariah offences,’ he added.

- Bernama

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