HUDUD LAWS AND ALIBIS AND OUTRIGHT LIES IN THE COURTS.
…AND
USING OR MISUSING ISLAM BY NON-MUSLIMS TO AVOID PERSECUTION AND TO MAKE MONEY FROM
IT.
By
Mansor Puteh
Many
non-Muslims in Malaysia
believe in Islam, but only if they can make money out of it. But they won’t
admit to their fascination with the religion. They prefer to make money from it
quietly.
And ironically, the Muslims, too, keep quiet about, when they should be highlight it everywhere and whenever they can. They do not to know what Islam is, how it benefits them as well as the non-Muslims around them.
America
and the countries in the west, especially the pseudo-Christian and
pseudo-Catholic ones too benefit from Islam in many ways – from the OIL they
import from the Arab countries and the Arabs and Muslims who they can use for
target practice to use the old military arsenal.
There are many of them who are involved in the halal industry; they operate factories or restaurants that offer halal food for Muslims and non-Muslims.
So it is
not a surprised to realize that 70% of the halal industry in Malaysia is
dominated by them.
There are so few non-Muslims in Malaysia who like to charge Islamic laws especially Syariah Laws to be not suitable for them.
Yet,
they ignore the fact that there are many of them who are involved in the
promotion of Islamic Laws themselves, by offering halal food, even to the
Muslims in the country and abroad, where their products are exported to.
There
are also many non-Muslims in Malaysia,
especially the Chinese who observe the practice of circumcision because they
know it is a healthy thing to do.
Unfortunately,
the Islamic authorities in Malaysia
have not found it expedient to produce filmlets to show them, especially to
their brethren who always like to find faults with Islam.
They do
not realize how their own kind has benefited from Islam, which has provided
them with financial gain, without which they could never ever earn a tidy
profit.
They
know without dabbling in the halal industry, they can never ever sell their
products especially foods, to the Muslims who constitute a larger portion of
the population in Malaysia.
But one
cannot expect the non-Muslims or Chinese themselves to admit that they are
benefiting from Islam.
The Chinese media, too, do not write about it.
But the truth
is Islam not only benefits the Muslims in all ways, but it also benefits the
non-Muslims, too.
And in
some cases, Islam also allows the non-Muslims to use it to escape persecution
in the courts.
One
example is when an Indian-Hindu man who was charged in court for riding a
motorcycle without wearing a helmet.
In the
court, he told the magistrate that he could not wear it as he was helping his
Muslim friends to carry water for the local masjid.
The
magistrate thinking that the Indian-Hindu man was so kind, so he excused him
and allowed him to go free.
The
Indian man had found a very convenient way to escape persecution by admitting
that he had tried to do a deed for his Muslim friends.
But no
one knows if he was telling the truth or if he was just giving a false alibi in
order that he was not fined by the court for not wearing a helmet while riding
a motorcycle.
One pities
the magistrates and judges for having to give the benefit of the doubt to those
who are spouting all those alibis which may be outright lies, in order that
they are not persecuted, and if they had to be, are given from reduced
sentences to a warning.
There
are however, some other countries, where the judges do not take such matters
lightly and do not care so much for alibis or excuses; they go by the strict
enforcement of the law and do away with emotions.
So in time, those who have been charged for petty offenses in those countries know they cannot try their luck pretending to be wrongly accused or could get away with fines, by simply making up some plausible excuses.
But the
magistrates and judges in Malaysia
are not the ones who are being had most of the time. Islam is.
Many
non-Muslims like to use Islam to escape from being persecuted, some of which
have been cited earlier.
They know
the magistrates and also judges tend to be sympathetic to those who are brought
to answer charges in court, if the person is seen to be showing consideration
and accommodation, especially if he is not a Muslim and who is seen to be
serving the religion one way or the other.
So there
are non-Muslims who say they are doing a civic duty to help their Muslim friends
to do work in the masjid and so on.
And not
only that on the other aspects, the non-Muslims particularly the Chinese also
know how much they can benefit from Islam.
It was
reported that 70% of those who are involved in the halal industry in Malaysia, are
in fact, the non-Muslims.
What this means is that these non-Muslims are not only benefiting from Islam, but they are indirectly saying how they believe in the religion, although they may not desire to revert to the religion that they know benefits them, financially.
This is
how much faith the non-Muslims in Malaysia have on Islam.
And it is also not surprising how many non-Muslims outside of Malaysia and in the world who also have similar sentiments towards Islam, when one can see how fast the speed they take to establish the Islamic banking system in their respective countries.
They know if they do not have such a financial system and also dabble in the halal industry, they would be left behind, as there are more and more Arab and other Muslim countries who trade with them, and they also have a sizeable Muslim community in their own midst that they cannot ignore completely.
And
there are also many countries in the non-Muslim World which are not fashioning
their legal system according to Syariah Laws, although they may not wish to
admit it after they realize their own legal system is tainted that has caused
their own society to slide.
Yet,
there are some non-Muslims who feel fearful of the implementation of the Hudud
Laws, citing how these laws do not serve them.
Did they bother to look at the so many non-Muslims who are in the halal industry, to know how many of their brethren do not support such views?
It is
also strange how the proponents of the Hudud Laws have all failed to cite this
as a good example of how good Hudud Laws are not only to the Muslims but to the
non-Muslims, too, since the halal industry and also the Islamic banking which
many non-Muslims are also involved in, cannot be sustained without the full
implementation of the Hudud Laws.
The
non-Muslims therefore cannot choose which aspects of Islam that benefits them
without accepting the basic core in the implementation of the religion in their
daily life.
So it is
perhaps good if the discourse or debate on the advantages or disadvantages of
the implementation of the Hudud Laws take into account these matters.
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