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Saturday, June 13, 2015

PAS now worse than Umno, neither open nor progressive, says scholar Kassim Ahmad

Controversial Muslim scholar Dr Kassim Ahmad says the Pakatan Rakyat coalition has failed as the coalition of choice to replace Umno, while PAS is stuck in its backward interpretation of Islam. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, June 13, 2015.Controversial Muslim scholar Dr Kassim Ahmad says the Pakatan Rakyat coalition has failed as the coalition of choice to replace Umno, while PAS is stuck in its backward interpretation of Islam. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, June 13, 2015.
PAS is now worse than Umno and has become even more narrow-minded and backward, says Muslim scholar and activist Dr Kassim Ahmad, following the Islamist party's elections last week which saw conservatives taking over.
“At least Umno has the spirit of nationalism,” the 82-year-old told The Malaysian Insider.
Kassim also said the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalition has failed and that each member party, not only PAS, was "dua kali lima" (as bad as the other).
“But they failed. How can they now convince the people?” he asked.
The PAS muktamar or annual congress last week was said to be tainted with slander targeted at the progressive faction that was deemed friendlier to PR partners, PKR and DAP.
DAP got the short end of the stick when PAS’s Ulama wing passed a motion to sever ties with the party, a response to DAP’s decision in March to cut ties with president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang and for its opposition on PAS's hudud plan in Kelantan.
The PAS muktamar adopted the motion without debate, a decision made by senior leaders that was heavily criticised by delegates.
Kassim said it did not matter whether it was the ulama faction that won in PAS because the party was already on a road that was narrow and backward.
“The policies of PAS today are unlike those in the days of Dr Burhanuddin Mohd Noor, who was open and progressive in his leadership,” he said, referring to the party’s third president, who held the post from 1956 to 1969.
“Today, PAS’s policies are neither open nor progressive. It contradicts Islam which teaches its believers a lifestyle that is progressive,” he said, urging Muslims to follow the teachings of the Quran.
Kassim, who courted controversy for questioning the hadith, said the situation was such because Muslims in Malaysia followed the Shafi’i school of Islamic thought, which he described as narrow and conservative.
The recent party polls in PAS saw its conservative leaders making almost a clean sweep of top leadership positions. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, June 13, 2015.The recent party polls in PAS saw its conservative leaders making almost a clean sweep of top leadership positions. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, June 13, 2015.
An example of the conservativeness, he said, was Muslim women having to cover their heads.
He said 95% of Muslim women in the country wear the "tudung" (headscarf) because the ulama taught them that the hair on their head is "aurat", the parts of body to be covered as required by Islam.
“But 35 years ago, my mother and the women of that generation, never wore the headscarf. They used ‘selendang’ (scarf).
“This was a phenomenon that occurred after the Iranian Revolution (also known as the Islamic Revolution of 1979).
“Iran was theocratic so what the ulama are teaching is 'sempit' and 'jumud' (narrow and backward),” he said.
Kassim said he was ready to debate with PAS over its policies on Islam that had become narrow and backward.
“I am ready to take them on,” he said while agreeing with the ‘ular dalam semak’ (snake oil salesmen) label that PAS ulamas had earned of late.
On Monday, Kassim wrote on his blog kassimahmadblogspot.com, that Malaysia now faced two dangers – Umno’s corruption, and the backwardness and fanaticism in religion.
He said the backbone of the Malaysian government had reached a dire state of corruption, adding that not even the rhetorical calls of transformation by Umno president and Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak could wipe out corruption.
Of the second threat, he said many "Islamic" institutions had surfaced with officers who were narrow-minded and backward in their thinking, taking advantage of the Federal Constitution which states that Islam is the religion of the federation and Umno’s declaration that Malaysia is an Islamic nation.
Kassim said it has been Umno's strategy to fight PAS.
“How do we overcome this danger? Umno must develop a broad, open and humanist understanding of Islam. Those from other faiths should do so too.
“They must call for a national conference to build a broad, humanist and progressive religious understanding,” he said, adding that there must be sincere discussion by the leaders of the nation.
- TMI

3 comments:

  1. Pak kassim is a anti hadis, we pray to allah for him to repent.

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