His departure in protest of MCA being an 'enemy of Islam'
Controversial columnist Ridhuan Tee Abdullah has quit MCA after being as member for 20 years. He is accusing the ruling Barisan Nasional’s Chinese component of
being anti-Islam after it objected to the Syariah Court (Criminal Jurisdiction)
(Amendment) Bill 2016.
The Chinese Muslim who held a lifetime membership in MCA
said the party was acting racially against Muslims when it opposed the Bill
proposed by PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang and expedited to the
Dewan Rakyat last week, Ismaweb reported today.
"I do not want to bear the sins of being in a party
which has become the enemy of Islam. With this I declare that I will quit from
MCA," he was reported as saying in the newsportal of Islamist group Ikatan
Muslimin Malaysia.
Tee claimed he had waited for four years to become an MCA
member as he wanted to prove he was not trying to become a Malay.
"But, this view of mine depreciated when this party is
racist and has become an enemy to Islam. Whoever that is an enemy to Islam is
also my enemy," he added.
Tee said he regretted MCA and Gerakan’s condemnation of the
hudud Bill, claiming it was the right of Malaysian natives to seek the
amendments, which the two had no standing to oppose.
“If MCA and Gerakan want their own lives, they should seek
out their own land,” he said.
He then challenged MCA and Gerakan ministers to resign from
the Cabinet immediately rather than wait for the Bill’s passage, and mocked
their reliance on Malay support to be elected.
When contacted for confirmation, Tee told Malay Mail Online
his decision to leave MCA was final.
“I was a member for almost 20 years with them and now they
act like this. This is very disappointing, I am not changing my mind,” he said.
Tee also urged the Malays to evaluate what the non-Muslim BN
components have contributed to their community in return for their support, and
told them their “enemies” were now openly cooperating to oppose them.
Last Thursday, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department
Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said tabled a motion to expedite the tabling of
Hadi’s private member’s Bill in Parliament to amend the Shariah Courts
(Criminal Jurisdiction) Act 1965.
However, Hadi asked to defer the Bill to the next
parliamentary meeting in October.
The Bill seeks to empower shariah courts to enforce punishments
― except for the death penalty ― provided in Shariah laws for Islamic offences
listed under state jurisdiction in the Federal Constitution, without
elaborating on the nature of the punishments.
Shariah court punishments are currently limited to jail
terms not exceeding three years, or whipping of not more than six strokes, or
fines of not more than RM5,000.
Umno president and Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak
later sought to allay concerns about Hadi’s Bill, saying that it was not meant
to implement hudud law but merely to enable the Shariah courts to impose “a few
more” strokes of caning from the current maximum of six.
Source -malaymail online-
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