{"id":2572,"date":"2008-11-10T21:55:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T13:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/11\/10\/non-muslims-shouldnt-interfere-with-fatwa-council\/"},"modified":"2008-11-10T22:22:46","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T14:22:46","slug":"non-muslims-shouldnt-interfere-with-fatwa-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/11\/10\/non-muslims-shouldnt-interfere-with-fatwa-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Non Muslims shouldn’t interfere with Fatwa Council"},"content":{"rendered":"
I agree with Zahid’s statement<\/a> that non-muslim NGOs should not challenge the fatwa council’s credibility. Why should non-Muslims be bothered about those ridiculous statements and rules issued by their religion for their followers? Unless such rules look down\/insult our religions, we should stay as far away from this council. For example, if the council decides to rule Yoga as haram, then, they should put in a nice sentence, not make Yoga a devil’s tool, or humiliate other religion\/beliefs just to make theirs stand our better.<\/p>\n

Minister in the Prime Minister\u2019s Department Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid
\nHamidi today told non-Muslim non-governmental organisations (NGOs) not
\nto challenge the National Fatwa Council\u2019s credibility.<\/p>\n

He said it was unfair to challenge or dispute a fatwa issued by the
\ncouncil purely on logic because it could create confusion among the
\npeople.<\/p>\n

The issue of \u201cpengkid\u201d (tomboyism) for example had
\nbecome a social problem when the Department of Islamic Development
\nMalaysia received complaints and on that ground, the Fatwa Council felt
\nit was necessary to issue a fatwa on it, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem
\nof a girl running away with a boy can be solved using the law but what
\nabout a girl running away with a girl who looks like a boy?\u201d he told
\nreporters here.<\/p>\n

Zahid said if the NGOs were confused or wanted
\nfurther explanations on the background of a fatwa, he was willing to
\norganise a forum.<\/p>\n

The NGOs or non-Muslim writers would not resort to
\ndisputing or challenging a fatwa but instead respect it should
\ndiscussions be held, he said commenting on the protest staged by
\nnon-Muslim NGOs \u2014 \u201cKatagender\u201d and \u201cFoot-not-Bombs\u201d \u2014 on Friday against
\nthe Fatwa Council ruling that \u201cpengkid\u201d is haram.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I just remembered something someone said – if so many agama lessons and agama classes does nothing to improve the condition, do you think a fatwa will achieve anything at all? Not that I’m against the rules, but perhaps the solution lies in other areas, rather than issuing fatwas.<\/p>\n

Non-muslim NGOs should not fight against such rulings on behalf of others. If the muslims are indeed against certain fatwa ruling, let them voice out. There’s millions of them, with many many NGOs. Surely got many channels to highlight their objection.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I agree with Zahid’s statement that non-muslim NGOs should not challenge the fatwa council’s credibility. Why should non-Muslims be bothered about those ridiculous statements and rules issued by their religion for their followers? Unless such rules look down\/insult our religions, we should stay as far away from this council. For example, if the council decides […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[302],"class_list":["post-2572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-religion","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2572"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2574,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions\/2574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}