Tuesday, 21 October 2014 10:42 POSER FOR MUSLIMS: You can clean up after touching dogs but how about after CORRUPTION? Food from corruption money goes into the stomach and blood stream - how to samak? 桃花 : I am fed up. Why spend time on saying dogs and pigs are najis? Help the country to get rid of corruption. Duit haram (money from corruption) is najis, not animals. They are created by Allah, too. All this is just to show the ulama are holier than thou. Anonymous_1398315636: Why not speak up openly against corruptions, abuses of power, rapes, incest and many other much more serious crimes but focus instead on man’s best friend? Why not speak up against the killings of Atlantuya, Tan Beng Hock and many others? Malaccan: Touching a wet dog renders a Muslim ritually unclean for purposes of prayer. But the religion also provides a method by which it can be rectified through ritual cleansing. So, why would these ulamas demonise the poor animals in addition to their already being deemed ritually unclean? The event was to raise appreciation and show kindness to dogs which is acknowledged to be Gods creature. It is obvious that such ulamas are bringing disrepute to their own religion through their unreasonable obstinacy and confused thinking. Or is this the localised variant of Islam which is different from the global Islam? How could a state mufti say a program to inculcate kindness towards animals to be against the religious beliefs of Muslims? The entire concept is unintelligible. Perhaps the fear that strikes the heart of the ulamas is the fact that organiser Syed Azmi Alhabshi is liberating the minds of Muslims from the chains of the religious authorities, which turns them into mindless but obedient robots. 2 Tim 1:7: The cold blooded murder of the Mongolian woman by the two Muslim bodyguards does not, of course, impinge on Muslim sensitivities nor does the plunder of the nations resources by freeloaders, rent seekers and embezzlers allied to the kleptocratic regime. But nothing can be more sacrilegious to the religion than a Muslim patting a dog. Blind guides! You strain a fly out of your drink, but swallow a camel! (Mat 23:24) Luke: Of all the najis in this world, why always choose to focus in the helpless dogs and the pigs. How about the corruption najis, bribery najis, injustice najis, stereotype Najis? Why? I miss my moderate Malaysians so much, I feel sick. It is as though my beloved Malaysia have been hijacked by a bunch of Islamic State-style morons. Anon1: Looking at the turnout. Whose sensitivities were impinged? The politicians only, right? Because of the fear of losing that one tool they have been using all this while to segregate the majority race from knowledge and used to indoctrinate them with propaganda to keep one political party in power. Equal Treatment: I hope all of this can be done indoors. If done so, I believe it will not create this much of fuss as Islam has different school of thoughts (where some thoughts are silent of the status of dogs). We, the minorities, will also make noise if our culture or religion is undermined. Tommy: That good fellow Syed Azmi already made known his intentions at least one week beforehand. Why didnt the Islamic Development Department (Jakim) do anything about it then? So it quite obvious they, too, were taken surprised by the success of the event. It seems that anything with good intentions or faith, they will try to disrupt. Appum: This is really confusing. The Selangor Islamic Affairs Council (Mais) and this Selangor mufti Tamyes Abdul Wahid, are they from different ends of the poles? Why are the ulamas weighing on this issue now but not before the event took place. Is it because the event was very successful? Or are the ulamas only targeting the ordinary folks? Ex-mufti: Shallow to say Muslims forbidden to touch dogs Hang Tuah PJ: Islamic Development Department (Jakim), please go to some of the ministers’ houses. They have dogs. Go to many rich Malay houses in Damansara, they have dogs also. In addition, you can samak (do ritual cleansing) after touching dogs. But how to samak after eating food from corruption money that goes into the stomach and blood stream? So, look into corruption amongst Muslims please. Maybe start from the top. That is a bigger bane amongst us. The Analyser: Welcome to Malaysia where the whole nation can get so worked up by something completely irrelevant to the 21st century that they neglect everything of importance. Anonymous#007 : Congratulations to the organisers, participants and MAIS for being progressive, and showing that Muslim Malays are capable of rational, independent thinking and action, and intellectual debate, without fear of retribution from self-proclaimed religious experts. ‘Patting dogs event insult to country’s ulama’ Hmmmmmmmm: PAS’ suggests hosting kiss parents cheeks and caress the heads of orphans events instead? Sounds so North Korean. Chris Wong: I think some of the clerics are claiming to speak on behalf of all of the ummah (Muslim congregation). They are entitled to their views, but followers of a religion can study and make up their own minds. Animals are part of the earth, so no need to go overboard to use them to disguise your insecurity and bolster your religious credentials. If you believe in the divine, then surely you know that what is in your heart is more important, and that there are larger worldly issues that you should be solving, no? Roar For Truth: I understand when you touch a dog you become ceremonially unclean but can be cleansed by the ritual of samak. However, when you touch a dirty politician, how do you cleanse yourself? I am interested to know since I meet more politicians than dogs in a week. Anyone has any idea? -Mkini Full article: malaysia-chronicle/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=383322:poser-for-muslims-you-can-clean-up-after-touching-dogs-but-how-about-after-corruption?&Itemid=2#ixzz3Gn9m6OLC Follow us: @MsiaChronicle on Twitter
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