Arming our Religious Enforcers

Allow me to make some comments on the recent idea to arm religious enforcement officers. Terengganu, the most and firstest Islamic state has actually jumped the gun so to speak. It’s already arming the religious officers.

This is a hare brained idea coming from the former army chaplain who has since become a minister. Religious officers go about doing their jobs- whether to raid hotels, catch people at close proximity, or raiding night clubs- they always go with Police and Municipal council officers. The police already carry guns. So why the necessity of arming religious officers?

If the country is not safe, then allow every citizen to carry arms to defend themselves against manic foreign workers, horny Bangladeshis, gangsterous-looking Myanmarese and Vietnamese. The killing of one religious officer in my hometown of Kuantan is most unfortunate as it is heinous. My prayers go to the surviving family members. Let’s hope the police catch the heinous perpetrators very soon. But let’s not overreact.

If that is the case, then let all bank officers carry guns. They are more exposed to latent dangers of being robbed and killed. They are custodian of money and after listening to Nancy Shukri’s account that in the absence of affirmative action, the Malays will resort to stealing and robbing, I would suggest that she sells the idea to allow bank officers bear arms. Every Malay with a worried look who goes into a bank can now be assumed to have missed the benefits of affirmative action and therefore is a potential robber.

The better alternative is to make everyone acquire firearms more easily.

Lets not use the killing of one religious officer as an excuse to arm religious enforcement officers. Have the government considered the harm that can be caused by overzealous religious enforcement officers? How many people have either died or got hurt while attempting to escape khalwat busters while negotiating on window edges and so forth. Are we then to wait, until one offender gets shot at and killed, we then rethink our idea of arming religious officers?

Posted by sakmongkol AK47