PAS to raise RM20,000 for shoe-missile imam

PAS Youth has set a RM20,000 target in donations to assist the family of the imam sentenced to a year's jail for contempt for sending his shoes flying at Federal Court judges.

According to information chief Riduan Mohd Nor, donations meant to ease the financial burden of Hoslan Hussin's (right) family, will be collected countrywide.

"We will continue to collect donations until Hoslan is released from prison.

"We are doing this not because he is an imam but as  humanitarian aid.

"This assistance is for his children's welfare, many of whom are still young and in school," he said when contacted. He also urged all PAS Youth members to help generously.
Yesterday, in delivering sentence, Chief Judge of Malaya Zulkefli Ahmad Makinuddin said that a year's imprisonment commensurates with the offence.

He said that by hurling his shoes at the judges, Hoslan had undermined the court and that the sentence was to protect the court's dignity.

The court's rejection of his affidavit, submitted outside the time allowed, triggered his act of contempt.

The imam was representing himself in a case involving his eviction from a mosque's living quarters by the Federal Territories Islamic Affairs Department (MAIWP).

The council wanted to evict Hoslan, an imam rawatib or an imam appointed by the community, who has been with the Ar Rahimah mosque in Kampung Pandan since 2008, for disciplinary problems.

Hoslan is also known as the Bersih Imam, as he had removed his robe to reveal a Bersih 2.0 T-shirt, upon hearing a government- sanctioned Friday sermon discouraging people from attending the July 7, 2011 rally.