‘Spot on, Marina, it just takes one person to create havoc’

Shut up! You helped create IS, Marina tells politicians, ulama

David Dass: Social activist Marina Mahathir is right. It is not just a call to arms against the infidels. It is also setting one race against the other and one religion against the other.

Most countries in the Middle East have little or no diversity. The minorities have been driven out. Likewise, in Iran. In Pakistan, Libya and Syria, the minorities are under pressure.

We were never like that. Diversity has always been our strength. Now we import ideas from countries that have little or no experience of diversity.

We send our people in the thousands to study Islamic teaching in these countries. They come back and work in places like Jakim (Department of Islamic Advancement). They look at the country and say – this is all wrong. it does not look like a Muslim country.

But do we want to look like the Middle East? Constant warfare, suicide bombings, no democratic institutions, refugees, poverty, illiteracy, the low position of women?

We must appreciate the good things that we have. We must respect our different beliefs.

Negarawan: “The thing is, a lot of people do think like IS but may never take up violence. But it just takes one person to create the havoc,” said Marina.

My highest respect to Marina for telling it as it is, without fear or favour. Islamic terrorists and their supporters should be excommunicated from Islam.

Unfortunately, there is no central or global governing body for Islam. Any imam can make their own “fatwa” according to their emotion and opinion, even though it goes against basic moral and humanistic principles.

Dont Just Talk: Marina gave a good piece of advice to the ulamas and politicians. The recent Dhaka massacre carried out by the six young militants, two of whom are from wealthy families and having studied in Malaysia Monash University, are real cause for concern.

The indoctrination by IS, which spares no Muslim – young and old, rich and poor, literate and ignorance – from being radicalised is alarming.

Anticonmen: Why would God want tiny souls with the size of specks of dust to protect him or kill others in his name?

God is the all-loving and all-powerful supreme soul who fills out the universe. He does not need any puny soul to kill other souls, who are also his own creation, or to protect him.

He is Mr Diversity himself. So all religious beliefs are just different manifestations of his nature of diversity.

No two planets are the same. No two galaxies are the same. No two souls are the same. No two stars are the same. No two species are the same. No two paths are the same.

See God in all our diversity. That’s what fanatics and bigots must understand.

Anonymous 560221439180274: Please stop inviting the champions of any religion to preach the singular glory of their respective religion.

The IGP (inspector-general of police) was right when he banned Zakir Naik, but sadly bowed to political pressure.

Re-examine the sending of students to Middle East and those at pondok schools. Nobody is monitoring their movement. Haul up anybody who talks or damages houses of worship or talk in praise of their race.

Make sure we have open-minded educators and writers passionate about promoting better relationship and understanding among Malaysians of different religion, race and culture.

Give the police the independence to act in the interest of peace and stability. Dismantle all the race and religious-based political parties and societies.

The PM Najib Razak government has to start searching its soul. Return to the time of leaders like Tunku Abdul Rahman, Hussein Onn, Ismail Abdul Rahman and Abdul Razak, who sacrificed their lives for country and Malaysians.

It is time that Najib comes forward to make the difference and changes.

RR: In the beginning the muftis, imans and ulamas encouraged Islamic radicals for they thought these radicals would be able to bring unity under Islam against other religions.

But now the radicals want power and hegemony in Islamic states, so they kill both Muslims and non-Muslims.

How did some police and army personnel get indoctrinated with this savage ideology of IS? The government must henceforth clean up the evil elements from all its agencies.

The IGP and police must focus on this forthwith as there are enemies from within.

Vijay47: It would take a person of unimaginable stupidity to believe that bringing in IS into any country, non-Muslim majority or otherwise, would be a welcome and beneficial development.

Yet this is exactly what is happening in Malaysia, not out of any Islamic piety but for crude political dominance and survival. It started with former PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad and is now being continued with fanatical callous viciousness by Najib.

He, the AG (attorney-general), and the IGP (inspector-general of police) may not quite be supplying arms to terrorists but their failure to act firmly against calls to violence is ensuring that Malaysia is fertile breeding grounds for extremist material.

Just one generation ago, the likes of Ibrahim Ali, Naik Zakir, Ridhuan Tee Abdullah, and the latest product, the mufti of Pahang, would have long been packed off to prison.

Instead, they now bask in their self-wrought glory with not a single Umno or PAS leader condemning them, let alone demanding their arrest.

It seems as though Najib is waiting for Rome to burn so that he can play his fiddle.

Ash Burn: Terror is terror. It is simply that, no religiousness about it. Some of which is done ostensibly in the name of religion.

I have not known a bigot to acknowledge he is a bigot. He is always holier than thou. I too throw my hands up in despair. Human intelligence fails to understand its own madness.

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