Politik, Legislatif, Dasar dan Tadbir Urus

Well, the DAP had recently announced the party’s shadow cabinet line-up to check on the BN government’s performances and administration after being frustrated with the ineffectiveness of the opposition coalition Pakatan Rakyat’s 2008 shadow cabinet of one representative each from PKR, DAP and PAS to oversee all the government ministries. Thumbs up for DAP for not wanting to waste any time and to check on the BN government to ensure good governance and service to our people and the nation. Asides, DAP had also called on its coalition partners PKR and PAS to come up with the line-ups of their own to also check on the government’s performance. Then, suddenly PAS president Datuk Abdul Hadi Awang came out with a strong and negative message against DAP by claiming that the later’s shadow cabinet line-up had proven that DAP had wanted to govern alone should it come to power one day and not to forget that the PAS leader also mentioned that there is an attempt to establish a “Chinese governm...

My article was earlier published in TheAntDaily.com on 10/5/2014 PAS has expressed its intention to table a Private Member’s Bill in Parliament next month to pave the way for the PAS-led Kelantan government to implement hudud law in the state. The PAS-dominated Kelantan state assembly had passed the Islamic penal law in 1993. In 2002, the PAS-controlled Terengganu state assembly too passed the Hudud Bill for implementation in the state. Recently, the Umno-led Perlis state government also expressed its intention to implement hudud law in the country’s smallest state. Even the Selangor Umno chief Datuk Noh Omar has openly voiced his support for hudud. Given this trend, many of us are beginning to voice our concerns over the proposed implementation of hudud. It looks like hudud is slowly getting its foot in. Some said that hudud is unconstitutional, against human rights and does not serve any “proper justice”. Arguments aside, there are also vast differences between theory and practice...

Hudud law should be first tried on the country’s elites and royals, Muslim activist Zainah Anwar suggested today as a way to prove that the Islamic penal code will be applied fairly before it is introduced to the rest of Malaysia. The director of Musawah and former Sisters in Islam chief argued the controversial hudud law is vulnerable to abuse, pointing to evidence of injustice in countries where the law is in effect. “If you really want to implement the hudud laws, let’s do a test run and I think it should only apply to the Cabinet ministers, members of parliament, to the state assemblymen, to the mentri besars, and to the royal families. “Let’s test on them first because you know they are not going to be prosecuted, you know it’s going to be people like you and I here,” she said at the forum entitled “What is hudud” at the MCA headquarters. Zainah said the debate on implementing hudud is distracting the society from more important matters such as corruption, urban poverty and the g...