A (relatively) short suicide note

• 6 February 2018
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PAS leader Hadi issued this in public when speaking about what a PAS government would do.

Basically government would be by Muslims who would decide policies and actions and non-Muslims who would give effect to those decisions. Given the provisions of the Federal Constitution this can only lead the hearer to one of two conclusions.

Either PAS don’t accept the Constitution and wish to install an Islamic theocracy in place of parliamentary democracy or Hadi has lost control of his reason. Unhappily both conclusions seem valid and the Malaysian authorities concerned should be looking into links between ISIL and similar bodies and PAS since both appear to have the same ideas about how government of a country should be managed.

Elsewhere in his remarks Hadi described hudud as a good thing since it instilled fear into people and held them back from committing crime. Certainly fear of losing one or both hands or other bodily appendages exists though it does not prevent the commission of crime as crime statistics in Saudi Arabia demonstrate; where beheadings are a weekly spectacle. But no one sees Saudi as a democracy nor would they so see Malaysia if huddud replaced existing criminal law.

The whole notion is ridiculous and archaic. If any Malaysian voluntarily wishes to live under huddud he should go to live in a country where this prevails. In the meanwhile the electorate should give Hadi and his party a thorough trouncing in GE14 to make the point that religious extremism has no place in modern Malaysia