Azlan Abn

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1. wanaimran Says:
   August 10th, 2008 at 10:41 am

   some follow up questions from what he said:

   1. if one of the ways to resolve this issue is for the government to re-examine and straighten out the confusions between the exact roles of the syariah and civil courts, then will these islamist groups are willing to put the *same* amount of pressure/protest on the government (be it the BN or the PR), as they did with the BAR council to force them to deal with this issue?

   2. if they feel that the BAR council is threatening to undermine what has already been established in this matter, and that the BAR council have not the right credibility to discuss the matter, are these islamist groups then willing to take up the responsibility to organize and conduct their own forums, roadshows and lectures where their views on this matter will be explained?

   3. some have argued that it is pointless to be part of the forum because the majority of the audience and speakers were non-muslims, and therefore the muslim participants will not be able to defend islam and no matter what happens, islam will always end up being on the losing side due to the overwhelming presence of non-muslims. but then, what is the point of preaching to the converted? whoever said that discussing such matters will be a walk in the park? are we going to back down simply because we think that it will be too hard or that our efforts will be futile? doesn’t our efforts count for nothing in the eyes of Allah even if we didn’t manage to reach our aims? do we stop trying simply because it is hard?

   it would be very illuminating indeed to read the answers given by the islamist to these questions.

   p/s. note that one can only use the argument that ‘the muslims aren’t ready or not knowledgeable enough’ only so many times

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