Al Hujurat 13

Menjelang 12 Rabiul Awal, TGNA baru sedar bahawa kaum Jakun wujud dalam Al Hujurat 13 "Wahai manusia sesungguhnya kami jadikan kamu lelaki dan perempuan dan kami jadikan kamu berbangsa-bangsa dan berpuak-puak supaya kamu kenal-mengenal. Sesungguhnya sebaik-baik kamu di sisi Allah ialah yang paling bertakwa di antara kamu." TGNA mengambil masa 1 tahun untuk menyedari keceluparannya kepada kaum Jakun dan memohon maaf. (Lawan politiknya diceluparinya bertahun-tahun.)

Lalu TG berjanji menjaga mulutnya "to avoid hurting other people’s feelings." Alhamdullillah. Ni yang den tak sabar nak tunggu PRK dan PRU. Apakah akan dikota janjinya untuk memelihara mulut?
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Star

Tuesday February 15, 2011

Nik Aziz regrets offending the Jakun

By SYED AZHAR
newsdesk@thestar.com.my


KOTA BARU: Kelantan Mentri Besar Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat has apologised to the orang asli community, especially from the Jakun group, for using the word Jakun in a statement he made last year to describe the act of politicians who hopped from one party to another.

Nik Aziz said he regretted using the word which had slighted the feelings of the people of the Jakun group.

“At the time I uttered the word, I was not aware that I was referring to a group in the orang asli community. I am saddened after realising I had indirectly hurt their feelings.

“To me, it seemed normal to use the word. But after finding out that it was also the name of an orang asli group, I would like to openly apologise to the community,” Nik Aziz told reporters after meeting a delegation of orang asli at his official residence yesterday.

Nik Aziz, who is also PAS spiritual adviser, also promised that he would watch his mouth in future to avoid hurting other people’s feelings.

Early last year, the Jakun group from Rompin, Pahang had called on Nik Aziz to apologise for likening politicians who hopped from party to party like Jakun.

The Rompin Jakun leader said it was unbecoming of Nik Aziz to liken the Jakuns with party hopping politicians.

At the same meeting, a leader of the Kelantan orang asli community, Azmi Badul also handed a memorandum to Nik Abdul Aziz demanding that state government solves land problems faced by the community.

“We want our customary land to be gazetted to the orang asli community and not given to individuals.

“This land belonged to our ancestors for thousands of years and we want the government to stop people from trespassing on our land either for logging or gold prospecting purposes,” he said.

To this, Nik Aziz said the state government would hand over the land titles to the community as soon as work to measure the acreage that belonged to them was completed.

“That is why we want the Orang Asli Development department to provide us with the funds to carry out the work.

“The government had long ago decided to give the land to the orang asli community and one of the conditions that must be fulfilled is that the individual concerned must have stayed on the land for an extended period of not less than 10 years,” he said.

He also said that when the measurement was completed, the government would gazette and allocate the land to the community.

Valentine's Day

Semalam barangkali seluruh masjid di Selangor menyentuh tentang fatwa kebangsaan yang mengharamkan sambutan VD di kalangan muslim. Beberapa hari yang lalu Ketua Pemuda sebuah parti menyatakan akan mengadakan gerak gempur anti VD. Tetapi Karl G MP Shah Alam DC yang didampingi YB Siti Pariah Mahmud sehari selepasnya mengutuk kenyataan itu dan memberi jaminan tiada gerak gempur. Menang lagi Ron dan PAP! Nggeh aje Karl G dan Siti Pariah ni.

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Sun

No Valentine's Day crackdown: Khalid Samad

Tim Leonard and Alyaa Alhadjri
newsdesk@thesundaily.com

SHAH ALAM (Feb 10, 2011): Shah Alam MP Khalid Samad of PAS has clarified that there will be no crackdown on Muslims celebrating Valentine’s Day in Pakatan Rakyat states as claimed by PAS Youth chief Nasrudin Hasan recently.

"No, there is not going to be any crackdown as far as we (PAS) are concerned," Khalid said.

"His (Nasrudin) view is personal and does not represent the (state) government," said Khalid, who was accompanied by Kota Raja MP Dr Mariah Mahmud during a press conference at his service centre today.

Khalid, who also sits in PAS’s national political bureau, said the party was only concerned on youths who commit immoral activities on Valentine’s Day.

"Enforcement of Islamic laws will be carried out independently by the religious department. Checks will be carried out as usual, just like how it was done on any celebration in the past to prevent Muslim youths and couples from engaging in immoral activities.

"In fact, we never even discussed any crackdown on Valentine’s Day in our recent political bureau meeting," Khalid said, adding that Nasruddin was not authorised to speak on behalf of the party with regards to the issue.

Nasrudin caused a stir when he said that Pakatan Rakyat states would carry out crackdowns on Muslims celebrating Valentine’s Day.

He reportedly claimed that the Selangor, Penang, Kedah and Kelantan state governments had directed the local authorities to work closely with the police, Rela and religious department to curb immoral activities by Muslims on Valentine’s Day.

His statement has been criticised by politicians from both sides of the political divide as well as NGOs and religious scholars.

Among others, DAP Socialist Youth chief Loke Siew Fook expressed concern over the approach taken by PAS Youth to act as "moral police" to check on couples on Valentine’s Day as it is beyond their powers to do so.

In a statement today, Loke said: "The said campaign planned by PAS Youth was never discussed with both Angkatan Muda Keadilan (AMK) and DAPSY."

He added that it was misleading for Nasrudin to give the impression that the plan was endorsed by Pakatan Rakyat to be carried out in the Pakatan states.

Loke’s counterpart from MCA Youth, Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong went on to call for PR state governments to make a stand on Nasrudin’s statement, citing the move as proof that PR is implementing Islamic policies in its states, despite repeated reassurances that it would not do so.

When contacted by theSun, former Perlis Mufti Dr Asri Zainul Abidin said: "As long as we don’t have any specific definition for the word 'celebration' (of Valentine’s Day), then we should not punish. Otherwise, we will be unfairly punishing the people."

He urged the authorities to remember that there will also be others who may just happen to be out on the day, at places where the celebrations are taking place.

"In Islam, actions cannot be taken based on a prejudice and people should always be deemed innocent until proven guilty," he said.

On the compulsory counselling sessions for Muslims caught celebrating Valentine’s Day, Asri said it may be an unnecessary burden.

Instead, he suggested that the authorities take on a more educational approach by distributing pamphlets or through engaging them in conversation.

Meanwhile, Council of Churches Malaysia secretary-general Reverend Hermen Shastri pointed out that the celebration of Valentine’s Day is a purely "secular" observation which has no ties to Christianity.

"Valentine’s Day is a purely secular observance and not celebrated in Malaysian churches, or any other part of the world.

"Just because the West celebrates Valentine’s Day, it does not mean that it is celebrated by Christians," he said.

He questioned the accuracy of the National Fatwa Council ruling, which described practices associated with Valentine’s Day celebrations as often having elements of Christianity or mixed with immoral acts.

"The Council of Churches feels that the National Fatwa Council has unfairly portrayed Valentine’s Day as a Christian observance," Hermen said.