{"id":12223,"date":"2015-02-25T17:48:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T09:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=12223"},"modified":"2015-02-25T17:48:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T09:48:57","slug":"mca-and-gerakan-playing-a-game-of-political-desperadoes-using-hudud-says-dap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/mca-and-gerakan-playing-a-game-of-political-desperadoes-using-hudud-says-dap\/","title":{"rendered":"MCA and Gerakan playing a “game of political desperadoes” using Hudud, says DAP"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LKS_forum-650x400\"<\/a>Hudud legislation amendment is not the same as hudud<\/em> implementation in Kelantan, DAP\u00a0has hit out at its’ rivals today.<\/p>\n

In an open letter to MCA President Liow Tiong Lai and Gerakan President Mah Siew Keong, DAP Parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang said the BN leaders were playing a \u201chypocritical game of political desperadoes, bankrupts and cowards\u201d when suggesting that Lim quit as MP for Gelang Patah if PAS succeeds in implementing hudud<\/em> in Kelantan.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe MCA and Gerakan Ministers and leaders are either ignorant or pretendng to be ignorant so that they could ground a prolonged political offensive on such a false premise,\u201d said Lim, pointing out that hudud<\/em> legislation amendments are not tantamount to the implementation of the Islamic law in the state.<\/p>\n

Hudud, or the Syariah Criminal Code had already been enacted by PAS in 1993 in the state. Lim explained that despite this, it had not been implemented because it ran counter to the Federal Constitution.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be most pathetic if I have to educate MCA and Gerakan ministers and leaders the simple knowledge that an amendment to an unconstitutional Enactment will only produce an unconstitutional and unenforceable Enactment with an unenforceable and unconstitutional amendment!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Terengganu Syariah Criminal Offence (Hudud and Qisas) Enactment in 2003 had not translated into an implementation of the law for that same reason, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the MCA and Gerakan Ministers and leaders still cannot understand this simple point, I am prepared to offer them free tuition courses in their party headquarters,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Lim said that for the law to be implemented, it would need a subsequent Parliamentary endorsement.
\nAny amendment to the hudud legislation in the Kelantan State Assembly on 18 March 2015, he said, would be a status quo just as it had been for 22 years since 1993.<\/p>\n

In his strongly worded letter, he also asked both Liow and Mah to resign from Cabinet if Kelantan UMNO Assemblymen are allowed by the UMNO leadership to support PAS hudud legislation in Kelantan State Assembly next month.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am penning this pre-Cabinet Open Letter to the MCA President, Liow Tiong Lai (Transport Minister) and the Gerakan President, Mah Siew Keong (Minister in the Prime Minister\u2019s Department) to inquire whether the Barisan Nasional has altered its stand taken by the founding fathers of the nation that hudud legislation is against the Federal Constitution and the secular character of the nation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

This is in light of growing concerns that UMNO and PAS may not only support the legislation amendment, but that both parties may form a \u201cUnity Government\u201d (UG) following the death of PAS spiritual leader Nik Aziz Nik Mat \u2013 who had opposed the idea and was seen as the \u201cstumbling block\u201d to realizing this idea that had been mooted by certain factions in PAS. This move also threatens to end Pakatan’s alliance with the Islamic party.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is the stand of MCA and Gerakan on this \u201cUG\u201d government issue \u2013 was it ever discussed in the Barisan Nasional Supreme Council or the Cabinet?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n

-The Rocket<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hudud legislation amendment is not the same as hudud implementation in Kelantan, DAP\u00a0has hit out at its’ rivals today. In an open letter to MCA President Liow Tiong Lai and Gerakan President Mah Siew Keong, DAP Parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang said the BN leaders were playing a \u201chypocritical game of political desperadoes, bankrupts and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12226,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12223\/revisions\/12226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}