Isma accuses liberal Muslims of selling out Islam
A controversial Muslim group today accused liberal Muslims of selling out their religion by allying themselves with the Chinese, Christians and Muslims of other denominations.
Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia (Isma) central committee member Mohd Hazizi Abdul Rahman said in a posting on the group's website that these liberal Muslims were deliberately ignoring provocative acts against Islam.
"The Chinese have been blatantly inciting hatred against the Malays while also insulting Islam repeatedly in various ways," Hazizi said.
He also said the Christian evangelists have been trying to justify using “Allah” in their publication, which is just an attempt to proselytise the Malays.
"The liberal Muslims have become a tool for foreign agendas controlled by groups which are combining fanatical ‘ultra kiasu’ and Jewish teachings.
"Not only are the liberal Muslims turning a blind eye on all these insults towards Islam, but they are in league with the Chinese and Christians."
Hazizi saw the emergence of liberal Muslims as not something new, but he believed their presence has become more offensive following the 2008 general election.
"These liberal Muslims, when they talk about religion, they like to make comparisons with the Buddhist priests in Myanmar who kill the Rohingya Muslims.
"They also make religious comparisons with the Ku Klux Klan, the Orthodox Christians in the Serbian army who raped Bosnian Muslim women."
He said it was bad enough for the liberal Muslims to be working hand in hand with the Chinese and the Christians, and warned that something worse was to come.
"The chauvinistic Christian Evangelist is openly trying to make Malaysia a civil country without any dominant religion," Hazizi said.
"Do these liberal Muslims not know this project manufactured by ‘ultra kiasu’ evangelists will eventually destroy Islam in Malaysia?
"It is also blatant trampling of the rights of Muslim followers in Malaysia, which coincidentally in this country are all Malays.
"Actually, these liberal Muslims know, but they are willing to be accomplices and continue their efforts to confuse young Muslim followers."
Singling out PAS Shah Alam MP Khalid Samad as an example, Isma said the liberals were betraying "true Muslims" with their remarks and polluting the image of Islam.
"When they see support decreasing among the Malays, these liberal Muslims begin promoting Islam as a blessing to the world to win the support of non-Muslims.
"They do not care whether the image of Islam is tarnished, that the principles and teachings of the religion are blurred.
"So long as they achieve their goal of power and overthrow those who are currently in power. They do not realise they are actually destroying Islam in Malaysia."
Khalid has been criticising Selangor's religious authorities for its handling of the seized Bibles issue.
He had even called for the Selangor Islamic Religious Department to be separated from the Selangor Islamic Religious Council.
Jais officers carried out the raid at The Bible Society of Malaysia and took away 321 Malay and Iban Bibles.
Six months after the raid, Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail announced that Jais had erred when it raided the BSM. But, the Selangor religious authorities have yet to return the Bibles. – July 11, 2014.
