Selangor’s religious authorities have clamped down on the state’s PAS leadership, charging deputy commissioner Khalid Samad over giving a sermon without permission and revoking state chief Rani Othman’s religious credentials.
According to Harakahdaily, Khalid was summoned to the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) today and notified of the charge in relation to a sermon he gave in Klang during the recent fasting month.
The PAS party organ also said that Rani, whose credentials expired during Ramadan, had his renewal application rejected.
“I received the credentials last year and applied to extend them but I received a letter from Jais informing me that my application has been rejected and my credentials revoked,” the Meru assemblyman said of the license which allows a Muslim scholar to give sermons without prior permission.
Khalid was charge under Section 119 of the Selangor Islamic Religious Administration Enactment for giving a sermon in a surau at Taman Seri Sementa, Kapar in Klang on August 16 without prior permission.
The Shah Alam MP will face trial on November 24 in the Klang Syariah court.
He told Harakahdaily today that the sermon had touched on the role of Muslims in the religious affairs of the state.
“I gave a sermon saying Islamic justice is not just for Muslims but also for Jews or even those at odds with Islam itself. I was relating it to how we should hear both sides in the case of Jais’s investigations into the church,” he said, referring to the religious authorities probe into alleged proselytisation last month.
Jais had showed up at a dinner event at the Damansara Utama Methodist Church (DUMC) in Petaling Jaya on August 3, claiming that it was acting on a complaint that Muslims were being converted by Christians at the time.
The church had denied the allegations and insisted that the 12 Muslims present that night were attending a thanksgiving dinner by a local NGO.
The contentious raid has escalated religious conflict between Muslims and Christians in the country, with Malay newspapers highlighting allegations of Christians trying to convert Muslims through welfare work.
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This is the problem when you give petty little men a little authority and power, they turn themselves into demigods. It is time to remove JAIS and all that morality policing that focuses on the personal level in the form of khalwat and the consumption of alcohol but ignores completely greater moral laxity in high office in the form of the abuse of power by politicians, corruption in high office, the practice of injustice rather than the rule of law and even of selective racism for which UMNO is the chief. They focus on khalwat but have no concern for the deaths that have occurred in the hands of the police and the MACC.
They focus on those who consume alcohol but they have no concern for those who have a share in San Miguel and peddle alcohol. They focus on churches doing good for the poor but not on those in high office who have their hands in the rakyat's money. Time to put an end to JAIS and turn it into an institution that cares for the poor and needy.
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