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Jika Dr Asri Zainal Abidin sudi mendengar

Saya tertarik membaca komen Dr Asri Zainal Abidin mengenai tindakan beberapa ahli PAS yang dikatakan suka memaki orang lain. Saya bersetuju dengan pandangan Dr Asri.

Ya, memang ada ahli PAS yang sedemikian.

Ada juga ahli UMNO yang sedemikian. Ada juga ahli MCA, MIC, Gerakan, United Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Murut Organisation (UPKO), PKR, DAP, dan lain-lain parti lagi yang juga suka memaki hamun orang.

Tetapi untuk menyalahkan parti atas kerendahan akhlak ahlinya adalah tidak matang. Dr Asri harus sedar hal ini. Dan, setakat yang saya kenal Dr Asri, beliau jauh lebih matang dari itu.

Di England, ada ahli Labour yang suka mencerca ahli Conservatives. Ada ahli Conservatives yang suka mencerca ahli Labour. Kalau ada mana-mana individu yang menyalahkan parti atas buruknya akhlak ahli Labour atau Conservatives, rasanya orang itu layak diketawakan sahaja.

Adakah Islam patut disalahkan apabila ada Muslim merogol kanak-kanak?

Adakah Dr Asri boleh disalahkan jika rakyat Perlis sewaktu beliau menjadi mufti memaki hamun orang lain?

Izinkan saya memetik kata-kata Dr Asri sendiri: “… bila kita nak judge orang, bila kita nak nilai orang, janganlah atas satu isu. Nilailah seseorang daripada keseluruhan kerjayanya…” (lihat video ini, minit ke-empat onwards).

Maka, saya berpesan kepada Dr Asri, bila nak judge sesuatu parti, janganlah judge berdasarkan satu isu sahaja. Nilailah parti itu daripada keseluruhan kerjanya. Baru lah sama apa yang diceramahkan dengan apa yang dilakukan :-)

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INVITATION: OPEN DIALOGUE WITH KHALID SAMAD MP

I would like to invite you to an open dialogue, details as follows:

Main speaker: Khalid Samad MP

Date: Saturday 11 July 2009

Time: 2pm, for 2.30pm start to 4.30pm.

Venue: Hyde Park Suite, Holiday Villa Hotel, 37 Leinster Gardens, London W2 3AN (click here for map)

Chair: Wan Saiful Wan Jan, Director General, Malaysia Think Tank

In this moderated dialogue, Khalid Samad MP will elaborate his ideas and thoughts on PAS, Pakatan Rakyat, and the future of Malaysian politics.

khasam1_april5Khalid Samad is PAS Member of Parliament for Shah Alam. He was recently appointed as a member of the Opposition’s Cabinet Committee monitoring the Prime Minister’s Department and the Ministry of Transport. Khalid created controversy recently when PAS Shah Alam, of which he is head, proposed that the group Sisters in Islam should be banned, which he later clarified as a mistake. Khalid was also one of the 10 PAS MPs who signed the open letter rejecting ‘unity government’ proposition.

On 27 March 2008, Khalid became the first elected Muslim Member of Parliament to step into the Roman Catholic Church of the Divine Mercy, Shah Alam, since it was completed in 2005. He spoke about his ideas and Islamic principles. The congregation gave him a standing ovation.

When studying at Leeds University in the 1970s, Khalid was active in the group Suara Al-Islam. Seeing that PAS under Dato Asri was heavily influenced by Malay nationalism, members of Suara Al-Islam tried to register Parti Negara Islam (Islamic State Party) upon their return to Malaysia, but their application was rejected in 1981. Khalid joined PAS in 1983, after the party committed itself to the concept of “leadership by ulama” (kepimpinan ulama)

Light refreshments will be served. We encourage a donation of at least £5.00 per person (optional only) to help cover costs, which will be collected at the door.

For further information, please contact Wan Saiful Wan Jan (wansaiful@gmail.com / 07920 132233) or Khalid Samad’s office via blog@khalidsamad.com.

See also: www.khalidsamad.com

Filed under: Malaysia, Politics

Dear Erdogans, please don’t die now.

Those who joined PAS in the understanding that PAS is an Islamic movement, especially would know how much effort is made to implant the concept of obedience (wala’) into our heads. If one were accused of being disobedient to the leaders (tidak wala’ kepada pimpinan), one would be sidelined very quickly. Criticising the leadership in public could easily earn you the label of “tidak wala’”. For a politician in the party, it could be a career killer.

It is therefore understandable for Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad MP to be cautious in his recent article.. Just to be on the safe side, when he pens his thoughts in that article, people must know that he has a religious argument why it is not disobedient (tidak wala’).

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