Permatang Pasir, PAS & amar makruf

Ini kali pertama saya tulis tentang Permatang Pasir.
Sebab dah jemu dengan pilihanraya kecil.
Ini kali keempat pilihanraya di kawasanundi Permatang PAUH dalam 17 bulan!

Mac 2008 ialah dalam pilihanraya umum.
Ogos 2008 Wan Azizah Wan Ismail turun, Anwar Ibrahim menang.
May 2009 Penanti, apabila BN buat pertama kali tidak menurunkan pemain.
Dan kini Ogos 2009 di Permatang Pasir.

Memang gerenti calon PAS menang.
Tetapi mungkin kurang undi dari yang dijangkakan, walaupun calon Umno Rohaizat Othman ditenggelami masalah peribadi.



Tetapi yang dibisikkan sekarang ialah sama ada perpecahan di antara pemimpin atasan Umno.
Perpecahan yang mengerikan.
Saya berhenti di sini kerana takut dituduh menyerang Umno.
Yang pasti, selepas ini tentu ada lagi pilihanraya kecil.
Mungkin di Lunas?



Dan ada isu lagi - isu Hassan Ali, PAS Selangor menyatakan dia dah memberi warkah kepada pegawai dari 370 buah masjid untuk menangkap sesiapa yang menjual atau meminum arak.
Baguslah untuk umat Islam, mungkin, tetapi isu sebegini harus dibincang dulu dengan exco Selangor lain.
Salah silap pengundi Cina dan India lari kerana takut Taleban datang. Seperti yang saya selalu tanya amar makruf nahi mungkar dalam Islam mesti mengenai tudung dan arak ke?


I often wonder why my fellow religionists when they think of doing good for agama, sex, booze and women are the first things they think of.
Why not help the poor feed and house themselves, finding jobs and training lowly educated workers, helping poor estranged wives and their kids get fairly divorced, and helping the ISA families. ie doing Justice.
(During Mat Taib's time as Selangor MB, his snoop squad was disbanded because its members caught sinful couples and drunken guys, and then asked for money. corruption again).

Why must amar makruf nahi mungkar mean snoop squads. and banning things?
Amar makruf (doing good) doesn't mean doing good for the poor and jobless?
Nahi mungkar (stopping sinful things) doesn't mean helping education of ex-convicts and their families so that they won't return to vice?

Why must the FIRST issues to be settled involved banning things and making people think of Islam as stupid and backward?
Why not enjoin Islam unto them with words of wisdom and good behaviour?

Well, I better stop. Because when it comes to religion, a group of people out there think only they know what is good for Islam.
In Malaysian life, I have learnt, I can ask a doctor if his prescription is wrong, I can sue my own lawyer for giving wrong advice, and scold the central banker why his prognosis on the economy is horrible.
But in the most important thing of all, agama, we are told we cannot question anything because we are all stupid. Follow blindly.
If you question, you are a 'liberal Muslim'. Resistance is futile.

OKlah, saya wartawan biasa dari negeri tak beragama.