The two-day remand of PAS Vice President Husam Musa by the police on grounds of investigations under Section 4 of the Sedition Act 1948 must be condemned by all right-thinking Malaysians as its constitutes a gross abuse of power and proof that nothing has changed as far as “transformation” to restore the independence, impartiality and professionalism of national institutions is concerned.
Malaysians are asking why the police have not even questioned, let alone remanded, former Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad who had been guilty of making a series of seditious statements before, during and after the 13th General Elections, utterly reckless of the damage he was doing to inter-racial harmony with his racist lies and falsehoods.
Similarly, Malaysians also want to know why the former Court of Appeal judge, Mohd Noor Abdullah had not been questioned, let alone remanded in a police lock-up, for making the most racist and seditious speech in the country in the past four decades when he warned that the Chinese Malaysians must be prepared for a backlash from the Malay community for their “betrayal” in the recently concluded 13th general election.
With Husam’s two-day remand, Malaysians are being told that the days of selective prosecution, discriminatory treatment and abuses of power by those in authority continues to be the order of the day.
Husam is not going to be a fugitive from the law, and the police authorities have no reason to believe that the PAS leader would not co-operate with the police with regard to the police investigations.
For this reason, Husam should be released immediately.
So long as the Malays allow UMNO to indulge in corruption/cronyism and abuse of power, so long will whatever they gain or will gain will reverse itself and Malay Agenda will fail eventually. Period..
ahh,berita lapuk.husam kena tangkap sebab dia dari PR.yang lain yang tak kena tangkap sebab dia special dari barisan najis.period.
Right or wrong Husam was remanded to assist investigations under Section 4 of the Sedition Act 1948 in connection with a statement he allegedly made (according to reports) on martyrdom. According to MalaysianInsider report (23rd June) PAS organ Harakah daily had quoted him last week as saying that “if any protester died during yesterday’s Black 505 rally at Padang Merbok in Kuala Lumpur, that person would be deemed a martyr”. If true it is this using of religious precept of “martyrdom” that has got him into trouble cos it’s the using of such religious precepts in political context that has caused acts of extremism and violence in other parts of the world. You think its Ok that martyrdom (as in jihad) should be encouraged to be used in our political discourse here?
Repost: According to MalaysianInsider report (23rd June) PAS organ Harakah daily had quoted him last week as saying that “if any protester died during yesterday’s Black 505 rally at Padang Merbok in Kuala Lumpur, that person would be deemed a martyr”. If true it is this using of religious precept of “martyrdom” that has got him into trouble. It is the using of such religious precepts in political context that has caused acts of extremism and violence in other parts of the world. You think its Ok that martyrdom (as in jihad) should be encouraged to be used in our political discourse here?
And do you think it is okay to act against Husam and not against others who have made worst statements?
The police decides who to arrest and who not to, for doing the same thing, then this is police state.
The government prosecutes some people and not others, for doing or saying the same thing, that is rule by law. This government practices rule by law, and the law is meant to keep them in power.
//And do you think it is okay to act against Husam and not against others who have made worst statements?// (IKT-56). An interesting question. No it is not Ok not to act against others who have made worst statements. That is selective enforcement of law that makes people have no faith in the law. However it does not help for the side that opposes an arbitrary govt that does not for eg follow reason, logic and good judgment to tit for tat encourage its own supporters to respond not by dictates of reason, logic and good judgment but by promise of heaven (as in martyrdom) and by so doing encourage some amongst the more extreme to go the extra mile (to sacrifice their own personal safety and sometimes even lives) not by virtue of reasons of reason, logic and good judgment (which may be absent amongst some of them) but just the promise of how the martyr shall be rewarded in the hereafter. Malaysia cannot be a better place if regime change is bought at the price of such religious appeals that marks extremism in other parts of the world.
When one wants to oppose and discredit an iniquitous law like Sedition Act and its arbitrary or selective enforcement there is more the reason to do that which is right and morally defensible so that the enforcement of such a law by the powers-that-be can be perceived easily by all as unjust and arbitrary or worse still with malice…It does not help the cause of opposing such a draconian law to act or speak in a manner that is either extreme or can be interpreted as instigating others to be extreme (by implications of what is said) because that would be playing right into the hands of the oppressors by showing that the the retention and enforcement of such a law is (after all justified), ie to prevent people saying things that may encourage others into extreme acts against public order.
June 22, 2013 – They are there to demand the resignation of EC officials who have failed the people. What nonsense are you talking about regarding use of religion to further a cause? Deso martyrdom has to be always associated with religious martyrdom?
IKT 56, It was reported that PAS Vice President Husam Musa said (as published by Harakah) that if any protester died during Black 505 rally at Padang Merbok in Kuala Lumpur, that person would be deemed a martyr”. If it is not religious martrdom (in context that he was speaking to his constitutents) what other kinds of martrdom could he be referring to that they know and understand of? If yoiu know can you tell us ?
I am sorry but I think it is you are talking nonsense!
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Surely, Husam is not asking anyone to kill himself. He is saying what it mean to die fighting for justice. Did’ny Noor Abdullah ask the Chinese to expect violence from the Malays?
Come on, this is political persecution.
This BN government will never change. It is arrogant as ever.
He was speaking to his constituents… therefore he is guilty. I am afraid you are not very intelligent although you try hard to appear intelligent. Do you find anything religious in asking for the EC officials to resign?
.// /Do you find anything religious in asking for the EC officials to resign?/// It is not the subject matter of protest whether asking EC officials to resign or for that matter asking the government of the day or PM to resign that is the issue. It is the message about the protest and possible consequences if authorities took tough action resulting in injury or death – that these are not to be afraid of, that one should out in spite of these risks even to one’s lives which even if lost, there is a good side to it as one becomes a martyr in the Hereafter. And Martyrdom, in its traditional sense, always in common usage, a reference to the death of someone because of his or her religious beliefs – for the Cause of the Almighty with the promise of a place in Heaven (though the exact benefits depends on the sects of beliefs). When a PAS Vice President said that if any protester died during Black 505 rally at Padang Merbok in Kuala Lumpur he would be a martyr he must in context be reasonably construed to refer martyrdom in this religious sense.
Now you are sounding even more ridiculous.
Sounded ridiculous? Its always easy and convenient to say so of something without having to show how it is. It is also relative to and depends on the hearing and information processing capacity of the listener. For eg. your earlier question – whether there is anything religious in asking for the EC officials to resign (as If I have imputed that it was) has already gone way off mark in missing what’s raised on martyrdom here. There are other off track remarks but I shall leave it as it is.
Do you have to arrest a man to investigate a simple thing like that? Are you flexing your muscles, UMNO? Are we going to be revisited with Mahathiristic draconism?