Moderate Islam: March 2006 Archives

MALAYSIA'S de facto law minister has threatened to jail or fine non-Muslims who insult Islam, amid concern over recent articles perceived as attacking the religion. Mohamad Nazri Abdul Aziz said the country's sedition act could be used on non-Muslims who make comments construed as belittling Islam.

"We will not think twice about using this law against anybody who incites," Mohamad Nazri, a minister in the prime minister's department, was quoted as saying in the Star newspaper today.

The minister said he was concerned over recent articles written about Islam by non-Muslims, and warned there was a limit to what could be said in the Muslim-majority country.

"I want to remind non-Muslims to refrain from making statements on something they do not understand," he said.


You mean like Freedom of Speech or Religion?


"We do not want to take away your rights religion is an important matter, especially to the Muslims."

Maylasia has been heralded as a moderate muslim state (despite the incredible racist Mahathir)
Y'know, what really bothers me is not whether this is 'moderate' or not. It clearly is not. It's the morons in the west who claim that Maylasia is some beacon of moderation( as Qaradawi has also been called) because of what...they actually HAVE an economy? No one got their hand lopped off this week?By claiming these people are moderate, the mere application of objective fact to who they are and what they do makes it appear as if there is NONE and can never be any.

The conscience of the multitude of muslims makes a reckoning inevitable. The question is, will there a be world here by the time this occurs? Delenda est Salafi jihadism

Among the most moving scenes in film history occurs in "To Kill a Mockingbird," in which the little girl, Scout, who has been watching her lawyer/father plead for the life of a falsely accused black man in the old South, is exhorted by an elderly black spectator in the gallery to rise to her feet. "Your father is passing," he explains.

I thought of that after viewing video of a woman who must be one of the bravest souls on earth.

The woman continues to slay the dragon.

Courage is among the rarest of virtues. Most people will not risk even the displeasure of their boss, far less their very lives, for something they believe in. Sultan doubtless speaks for millions of Muslims who similarly deplore the barbarism that has come to dominate large segments of the Muslim world. But without leadership like hers, they must feel besieged and beleaguered. Her heroic stand deserves our awe and deep respect. Stand up: Ms. Sultan is passing.