My weekly news: Arrested for insult and Nik Omar PAS family political drama

A man arrested for insulting the PM 

https://www.msn.com/en-my/news/national/man-arrested-for-insulting-dr-m-on-facebook/ar-AAxqm45?li=AAaD62f&ocid=spartandhp

I agree. Tun Mahathir has too much on his plate right now to bother about a single person insulting him. Also, I think the people should take a social responsibility to report all insults or racial / personality incitement to FB, YouTube or whatever social media they are using. You can simply click a button and report and the post will be removed. No one needs to be apprehended or put in jail and stop hash tagging PDRM. However, I do agree that the police needs to take action if a threat of violence is expressed. 

Since then, the man has been released and Tun Mahathir has requested to the police not to arrest those who insult him on social media. 

Nik Omar decision to be a PKR candidate and the backlash he receives from his family 

https://www.msn.com/en-my/news/national/nik-omar-dihalang-jadi-imam-berkuliah-di-masjid-tok-guru/ar-AAxssrx?li=AAaD62f&ocid=spartandhp

Nik Omar has claimed that he has been barred from giving lectures in the mosque that he has been giving sermons for years. I chose this topic because for those who were brought up in the 80s and 90s, we remember our parents talking about the issue of PAS vs UMNO during that era that led to inappropriate practices such as ‘masjid dua imam’, 'kafir-mengkafir etc. Perhaps some of the supporters went overboard. 

https://soscili.my/amanat-hj-hadi-isu-kafir-mengkafir-pas-umno/

https://soscili.my/peristiwa-berdarah-di-memali-dua-versi-cerita-yang-sangat-berbeza/


Please remove the 'taksub’ mentality. If one believes that they are the only ‘Islamic’ political party, this will inevitably lead to an ‘elitist’ mentality that perhaps they don’t even realise. Instead of getting closer to the people, they are actually causing further division and distancing themselves from the people.

My concern with regards to this Nik Omar case is that it was even reported (Wallahu A’lam) that his own mother is against him and calls him ‘an ungrateful son’. Let me ask how does having a different political viewpoint makes one an ungrateful son? In fact, if a grown up man cannot have his own views and must follow the political view of his mother, does that make him a good son? Did he cheated or lied, murdered someone or stole money from people for him to be considered a terrible Muslim? No! Where is it in Islam that a son must follow his parent’s political affiliations? What kind of brainwashing would I be charged with if I told my children that they would be ‘anak derhaka’ if they did not follow my political beliefs?

May I remind everyone that PAS actually formed a coalition with BN between 1974 until 1978. Honestly, we don’t even need an explanation or Islamic reasons as to why PAS decided to do that. There is no need for any Islamic justification as to why PAS formed a coalition with PKR and DAP in 2013. The reason is simple. It was a political decision. It was not an Islamic decision. Because PAS is first and foremost a political party working within a democratic system. The late (Allahyarham) Nik Aziz was a good, knowledgeable and pious man, why is there a need to chastise his son for having a different political view?

Can we please have some sense here and stop this ‘taksub’ mentality. If this is Islamic politics then don’t have Islam in politics. If putting Islam in politics makes a person condemned to following a particular political party simply because they were born within that party then, how is that Islam? How is breaking the ties of kinship simply because one has a different political view from their parents or siblings Islamic?

I really hope that this is merely a misunderstanding and I hope that the family will see sense and put party politics behind them. Islam is Islam; family is family and let political affiliation be simply that. During this month of Ramadhan, really hope the family could look past their differences and keep to the ties of kinship.