Rejecting race is un-Islamic, says BTN man

Pahang National Civics Bureau (BTN) assistant director Ahmad Shah Jamlus said rejecting race is un-Islamic and stressed that the religion and Malays are inseparable.

In the bureau’s blog, Ahmad pointed out that the creation of Adam and Eve implies differences in mankind as we are made of distinct races.

Ahmad said that the Qur’an says Allah has created nations and tribes and the most honoured are those most piety towards Allah.

“Therefore Malay and Islam cannot be separated. The first step in reaching a higher level of God-consciousness is established in the country’s constitution whereby under article 160 stipulates that a Malay must be a Muslim,” Ahmad wrote in an article, “Rejecting race or ethnicity is rejecting human nature,” on February 9.

Ahmad’s comments are bound to reignite fears that government has failed to revamp BTN.

The BTN, a state agency charged with running courses on patriotism for civil servants and undergraduates, came under fire last year for promoting racism.

Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s administration had promised a revamp of BTN’s courses following a widespread public outcry.

Last year, BTN deputy director Hamim Husin told to a Puteri Umno closed-door function that Malay rights is a mandate to rule the country.

Hamim had also made derogatory references to the Chinese and the Indian communities, saying each of their communities had only a vote each.



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Here we go again. When will these people realise that the majority of mankind do not share their views. This religious (certainly not piety) intolerance is dangerously dividing Malaysia.

As a malay, I'm embarrassed by this kind of malays. What has malay got to do with Islam??? Islam is not exclusive to just malays. Being a malay doesn't mean you are going to be a good muslim. Being a muslim means practicing Islam wholeheartedly, not because the society is imposing upon you. BTN is so full of imbeciles and dungs.

What is he trying to tell us ? Adam and Eve are Malays???? Supreme beings cannot be separated from religion. Brother !there was no religion during Adam and Eve's time. If there was then the Indus civilization and Hinduism is older than all religions? period.

In His last sermon, the Prophet reminded that "all mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over black", etc, etc.

So I wonder what Ahmad Shah Jamlus is practising. It doesn't sound like Islam, as much as eating pork does not sound Islamic. And if rejecting race is un-Islamic, then I should also think that abstaining from pork is also un-Islamic. Or is Ahmad Shah Jamlus the latest Prophet sent down by Allah to override His earlier commandments?