Pemuda Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia Negeri Pulau Pinang akan melancarkan Kempen Tak Nak Hudud pada Khamis, 15hb Januari 2009, 10.30 pagi, bertempat di Ibu Pejabat Negeri, 139 Jalan Macalister, 10400 Pulau Pinang.
Penang PGRM Youth will be launching a No Hudud Campaign on Thursday, 15th January 2008, 10.30 am at State HQ, 139 Macalister Road, 10400 Penang.
The aim of this No Hudud Campaign is to:-
1. to raise the awareness of all Malaysians on the negative implications of Hudud law
2. to prevent the enacting and gazetting of new Hudud laws in our country
3. to repeal existing Hudud laws in Kelantan and Terengganu
Hudud law threaten to destroy the very foundation of our nation-building. It must be oppose whole-heartily by all Malaysians – Muslims and Non-Muslims.
Below are various reasons given against the implementation of Hudud law in Malaysia:-
Reasons against Hudud implementation
1. Legislate private matters. Hudud regulates and controls private and consensual activities unlike current penal code which generally does not legislate on “private matters”, especially on activities that are not injurious and “victimizing”.
2. Violation of constitution. Our Federal Constitution does not provide for a theocratic state, introduction of any religious based Criminal Laws such as Hudud is unconstitutional.
3. Citizens not equal. Our Federal Constitution provides that every citizen is equal before the law. Hudud will create a situation where non-Muslims and women are not equal before the law.
4. Children can be persecuted for sex offences. Minors can be convicted of sex offences, unlike what is provided in the existing penal code, where consent of a minor is immaterial and statutory rape is applicable.
5. Woman inequality. Women are not accepted as witnesses and women are also most likely to be prosecuted for slander if they are not able to prove rape. The victim must prove that she was not a consenting party to her own rape.
6. Woman discrimination. In cases of adultery, women on account of them being pregnant will immediately be charged for the offence while it will be impossible to charge the male partner because of the requirement of four male Muslim witnesses.
7. Lack of protection for non-Islamic properties. Under Hudud, Muslims who commit robbery of property that is valueless in Islam e.g. liquor, entertainment equipments, and images in temples will have a chance to escape prosecution or receive lighter punishments.
8. Splitting the society. Muslims and Non-Muslims Malaysians are already divided by cultural differences and religious beliefs. Hudud will further divide Malaysians through the laws.
9. Difficulty to prosecute. Under Hudud, the alleged male perpetrator may stand to gain because of the difficulties of getting the testimonies of four Muslim male witnesses.
10. Ocular Evidence. Evidence for rape is ocular (of the eye), evidence of four adult male witnesses or confession of the accused. The victim’s own statement has no testimonial value. Forensics science and advancement is of minimal use.
11. Non-Muslims and women cannot be witnesses. Where there are alleged multiple perpetrators and victims (comprising Muslims and non-Muslims), eye-witness accounts offered by Muslim males are admissible as evidence while non-Muslim and women cannot be witnesses.
12. Hudud versus Penal code. When there are more than two co-accused or victims - Muslims and also non-Muslims, which criminal law to use? Statements that Hudud law is only applicable to Muslims are half lies.
13. Innocent but found guilty. If an alleged thief is wrongly prosecuted and had lost his right hand through Hudud, if later it was discovered that he is innocent, it will be too late because he can not have his hand back. All human make mistakes.
14. Law reform ongoing. If supporters of Hudud are not satisfied with the current Penal Code they can lobby for reforms, as law reforms are on an ongoing basis.
15. Apostasy. The punishment for blasphemy or apostasy by an unrepentant offender is death and forfeiture of property.
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Saya menyokong pendirian Pemuda Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia Negeri Pulau Pinang dalam Kempen Tak Nak Hudud.
Lebih baiknya, jika Pemuda Barisan Nasional turut terlibat dalam kempen ini. Kerajaan Barisan Nasional masih belum menjelaskan pendirian mereka dalam isu Hudud.
3/10/09
75 year-old widow sentenced to 40 lashes
This is unbelievable but true.
A 75-year-old widow in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to 40 lashes and four months in jail for mingling with two young men who are not close relatives, drawing new criticism for the kingdom's ultraconservative religious police and judiciary.
The woman's lawyer told The Associated Press on Monday that he would appeal the verdict against Khamisa Sawadi, who is Syrian but was married to a Saudi. The attorney, Abdel Rahman al-Lahem, said the verdict issued March 3 also demands that Sawadi be deported after serving her sentence.
He said his client, who is not serving her sentence yet, was not speaking with the media, and he declined to provide more details about the case. The newspaper Al-Watan said the woman met with the two 24-year-old men last April after she asked them to bring her five loaves of bread at her home in al-Chamil, a city north of the capital, Riyadh.
Al-Watan identified one man as Fahd al-Anzi, the nephew of Sawadi's late husband, and the other as his friend and business partner Hadiyan bin Zein. It said they were arrested by the religious police after delivering the bread. The men also were convicted and sentenced to lashes and prison.
The court said it based its ruling on "citizen information" and testimony from al-Anzi's father, who accused Sawadi of corruption.
"Because she said she doesn't have a husband and because she is not a Saudi, conviction of the defendants of illegal mingling has been confirmed," the court verdict read.
Saudi Arabia's strict interpretation of Islam prohibits men and women who are not immediate relatives from mingling. It also bars women from driving, and the playing of music, dancing and many movies also are a concern for hard-liners who believe they violate religious and moral values.
Complaints from Saudis have been growing that the religious police and courts are overstepping their broad mandate and interfering in people's lives, and critics lambasted the handling of Sawadi's case.
"How can a verdict be issued based on suspicion?" Laila Ahmed al-Ahdab, a physician who also is a columnist for Al-Watan, wrote Monday. "A group of people are misusing religion to serve their own interests."
Sawadi told the court she considered al-Anzi as her son, because she breast-fed him when he was a baby. But the court denied her claim, saying she didn't provide evidence. In Islamic tradition, breast-feeding establishes a degree of maternal relation, even if a woman nurses a child who is not biologically hers.
Sawadi commonly asked her neighbors for help after her husband died, said journalist Bandar al-Ammar, who reported the story for Al-Watan. In a recent article, he wrote that he felt the need to report the case "so everybody knows to what degree we have reached."
The woman's conviction came a few weeks after King Abdullah fired the chief of the religious police and a cleric who condoned killing owners of TV networks that broadcast "immoral content." The move was seen as part of an effort to weaken the hard-line Sunni Muslim establishment
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