They say she insulted Islam, and yet they aren’t calling for her death, despite the death penalty for blasphemy taught by all the major schools of Islamic jurisprudence. They must be moderates. “Islamic NGO offers reward for slapping MP Teresa Kok over controversial ‘Onederful Malaysia’ video,” from Australia Network News, February 10:
A Malaysian Islamic NGO has offered a $US360 reward for anyone who slaps an opposition MP who posted a controversial Chinese New Year video on YouTube.
Teresa Kok, national vice-chair of the Democratic Action Party, has been accused of insulting Malays and Islam in her ‘Onderful Malaysia’ video.
Local media says up to 300 police reports have been lodged against the video, a play on the government’s ‘1Malaysia’ campaign, which uses a talk show setting to poke fun at various national issues.
Ms Kok has told Asia Pacific the video is a satirical attack on government issues, and the race controversy is being used by the governing UMNO party to distract from that.
“[It is] a distraction, so that the Malay people especially, they will just…look at me, a Chinese, a Christian from DAP, as a racist,” she said.
“They will just focus to attack me, and forget about the real problems that are in UMNO and also in Barisan Nasional government, to try to distract the attention of the Malay audience.”
A group of six Muslim NGOs, calling itself the ‘Council of Islamic NGOs’, has held a protest in which it slaughtered two live chickens and smeared the blood on a banner with images of opposition [sic — the paragraph ends there, with no punctuation]
The group also offered a 1,200 ringgit reward to anyone prepared to slap Ms Kok and record it on a smartphone.
Ms Kok says she’s been shocked by the reaction.
“They accused me for running down the Malays, Islam, the Prime Minister Najib [Razak] – all these accusations are untrue,” she said.
“In fact, you know, when I say I’m surprised, it was because in last year’s general elections, there were numerous songs, video clips that mentioned all these issues.
“So these are not issues that are new for that reason, and also for the Malaysian public – so why this time the reaction was so strong?”
Ms Kok says she’s lodged a police report, but Malaysia’s Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has dismissed the need for an investigation .
“If they issued a death threat, then it would be a threat,” he told local reporters.
“Slapping is not.”
Mr Zahid said an investigation had been launched by the Malaysia Communications and Multimedia Commission into the allegations against the video.
DAP leader Lim Kit Siang has promised he would ask Ms Kok to withdraw the video if the allegations are proven.
The ABC has requested an interview with a Malaysian Government representative and is waiting for a response.
mortimer says
Assaulting a politician is not a serious crime in Malaysia?…then it should be.
Swexpat says
Assaulting an opposition politician is not a serious crime in Malaysia!
Assaulting a government politician is a serious crime in Malaysia!
So much for the “1Malaysia” programme…
JIMJFOXT says
ONLY if it’s a MUSLIM
nacazo says
Someone care to explain how did she insult Islam?
Salah says
By being Christian!!!
Veracious_one says
by not submitting to Islam….
Brian C. Hoff says
Deport her back to China and have China deal with her.
Medina says
Better idea: let’s take the Home Minister, obviously insensitive to express threats, to Mecca and have him dragged by a thirsty camel to a mirage oasis. Then he can sun himself on that big, ugly, black rock. This is not a threat, just a suggestion.
C.C.LEONG says
@Brian C. Hoff
She was born in Malaysia, and what has she done to warrant deportation to anywhere first of all?
Brian C. Hoff says
She is still chinese in custom and habit insulting the muslim in Malaysia, may-be Malaysia need to depost all chinese back to China.
ecosse1314 says
Wow if only Europe took up your suggestion.Wow what a tube you are,
sheik yer mami says
The Malays couldn’t feed themselves without the Chinese, Hoff.
Next time you go to the mosque and bang your head on your rug you should thank allah for having made Malaysia prosperous.
Defcon 4 says
How tolerant of you Jack MeHoff!
ecosse1314 says
If only Europe would follow your advice Braindead
gravenimage says
“Brian C. Hoff” wrote:
Deport her back to China and have China deal with her.
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What crap. Chinese people have lived in Malaysia for ages—there is absolutely no reason to suppose that Ms. Kok is a recent immigrant.
What “DefenderofIslam” is really suggesting here is religious cleansing.
Of course, Malaysia would be just another backward islamic hell-hole without non-Muslims Hindus and Chinese to exploit—but this has never stopped pious Muslims from driving out Infidels before.
Saleem Smith says
We ex-Muslims living with Islam’s death penalty for apostasy know that the fictitious prophet Muhammad was an evil madman and that Islam a cruel hoax.
Islamic theology and law prescribe death for both blasphemy and apostasy. Accordingly, anyone who leaves Islam or blasphemes Muhammad and/or Islam is deserving of death. The more Islam that gets a applied, the more draconian the penalties become. If a person blasphemes or apostatizes in a Sharia enforcing country, they face certain death, or worse…
Although some blaspheming blasphemers may in fact get “lucky” and escape death!
If the blasphemer commits blasphemy in a non-Sharia state they may be spared death and only face fines, imprisonment, flogging, amputation, hanging, or beheading…
Blasphemy against Islam includes:
* Finding fault with Muhammad
* Finding fault with Islam
* Speaking ill of Allah
* Refuting the infallibility of the Qur’an
* Slighting a member of Muhammad’s family
* Speculating about how Muhammad would behave if he were alive
* Visual depictions of Muhammad or films about Muhammad
* Naming a teddy bear Muhammad
* Using words that Muslims use because the individuals were not Muslims (Malaysia).
* Being alone with persons of the opposite sex who are not blood relatives
* Converting from Islam to another religion or publishing or distributing such a point of view
* Uttering “words of infidelity” (sayings that are forbidden)
* Claiming that forbidden acts are not forbidden
* Insulting religious scholarship
* Finding amusement in Islamic customs
The perfect Religion of Peace that must not be criticized!
Here is a recent statement from a group of Bangladeshi apostates living in the UK explaining the reasons why they have abandoned Islam:
“One who claims to be a messenger of God is expected to live a saintly life. He must not be given to lust, he must not be a sexual pervert, and he must not be a rapist, a highway robber, a war criminal, a mass murderer or an assassin. One who claims to be a messenger of God must have a superior character. He must stand above the vices of the people of his time. Yet Muhammad’s life is that of a gangster godfather. He raided merchant caravans, looted innocent people, massacred entire male populations and enslaved the women and children. He raped the women captured in war after killing their husbands and told his followers that it is okay to have sex with their captives (Qur’an 33:50). He assassinated those who criticized him and executed them when he came to power and became de facto despot of Arabia. Muhammad was bereft of human compassion. He was an obsessed man with his dreams of grandiosity and could not forgive those who stood in his way…
The statement continues,
Muhammad was a narcissist, like Hitler, Saddam or Stalin. He was astute and knew how to manipulate people, but his emotional intelligence was less evolved than that of a 6-year-old child. He simply could not feel the pain of others. He brutally massacred thousands of innocent people and pillaged their wealth. His ambitions were big and as a narcissist he honestly believed he is entitled to do as he pleased and commit all sorts of crimes and his evil deeds are justified.”
JessieJames says
I would never name my Teddy Bear “muhammad” but I find loads of “amusement” in Islamic customs everyday; e.g.
72 Virgins or Bust!
Martyrs do it like it’s their last time
My kid and YOUR money go to Gitomo Bay.
I’m Muslim but you’re ugly and I can blow myself up
God Sent says
Islam practised in Malaysia is an Insult onto itself.
It has degraded itself to a mere cult run by several groups of ill informed nut heads
Defcon 4 says
Yeah, because islam is so much better in any other islam0fascist state right?
duh_swami says
If they are going to start slapping politicians who insult Islam, I should probably cancel my plans to run for public office there. I have been slapped a number of times, usually by jealous husbands, but never as a punishment for blasphemy. Maybe Bolivia…
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
It’s difficult to discuss Islam and not be seen as having insulted it; it’s best not to talk about it at all. To use an old lawyer phrase, Islam has bad facts. That’s why Moslems are hypersensitive, the truth about them is easy to learn, so the best defense is a good offense.
Just throw a shoe at her and be done with this terrible misunderstanding.
doreva says
probably the true litmus test of being civilized is the ability to laugh at oneself…i have a minimal acquaintance with Chinese culture, through the martial arts and my Chinese medicine man, but enough to see these three and the hostess are able to laugh at themselves (note near the beginning the “uncle” does some “tui na” on the shoulder of the fat lady in the middle…a common custom in the traditional culture that is, to take care of each other)…too bad the islam culture wasn’t able to laugh at itself…there’s a lot of dark humour in laughing at the violent tendencies of islamic culture…
Defcon 4 says
I’ll bet Teresa Kok is a lot less worried about being slapped by her islam0fascist constituents than being murdered by one of them. After all, she has been accused of “insulting islam”.
Champ says
Hey don’t insult me with the TRUTH about islam and company!!!!! …my warped and twisted mind just can’t take the TRUTH!
Champ says
…that’s the mohammedan mindset, dontchaknow.
dumbledoresarmy says
My dear lady – please wipe the dust of rapidly-Islamising Malaysia off the soles of your shoes, pack your bags, up sticks, and come to Australia…as so many of your fellow non-Muslim compatriots are doing. I think you’d fit right in.
gravenimage says
Malaysia: Muslim group offers reward to anyone who can slap politician whom they say insulted Islam
A group of six Muslim NGOs, calling itself the ‘Council of Islamic NGOs’, has held a protest in which it slaughtered two live chickens and smeared the blood on a banner with images of opposition…
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This looks like rather more than a threat to “slap” someone—I believe “slap” should be put in quotes here…
More:
“If they issued a death threat, then it would be a threat,” he told local reporters.
“Slapping is not.”
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Actually, slapping *is* a threat. But I’m sure this Muslim group used the euphemism “slapping” for just this reason, and if some zealous Muslim decides to do more than slap Teresa Kok, they have an out.
ROZAS DLIMA says
You may encounter muslims with weird behavior & show lack of respect to other homosapiens of different belief system. These muslims can be categorized as low-order thinking muslims with symptom of cognitive dissonance. There are abundance of them on earth…just like bubbles floating in oceans. It’s no point having any socratic discussion with them ‘coz of the weak cognitive power to rationalize or justify their ideas. There is nothing wrong with Islam but there’s something wrong with the Muslims. Wise Man says “Not All Muslims are Mukmin But All Mukmin are Muslims”. It’s much more enriching & lively to have a chit-chat with Mukmin rather than with Muslims.