Arabisasi: Ketuanan Melayu semakin mengikis, Ketuanan Arab menebal (Arab Master)

iloveselangor

Worries about Malaysia’s ‘Arabisation’ grow as Saudi ties strengthen

Reuters | December 21, 2017

Critics say hardliners gaining ground in multicultural Malaysia and eroding traditional Malay culture.
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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s growing ties to Saudi Arabia – and its puritan Salafi-Wahhabi Islamic doctrines – are coming under new scrutiny as concerns grow over an erosion of traditional religious practices and culture in the multi-ethnic nation.
A string of recent events has fuelled the concern. Hostility toward atheists, non-believers and the gay community has risen.
Two annual beer festivals were cancelled after Islamic leaders objected. A hardline preacher, accused of spreading hatred in India, has received official patronage.
The government has backed a parliamentary bill that would allow harsh shariah punishments, such as amputations for theft and stoning for adultery. And after religious officials supported a Muslim-only laundromat, Malaysia’s mostly ceremonial royalty made a rare public intervention, calling for religious harmony.
Marina Mahathir, the daughter of Malaysia’s longest serving prime minister, Dr Mahathir Mohamad, publicly lashed out at the government for allowing the “Arabisation” of Malaysia.
Marina, a founding member of the civil rights group Sisters in Islam, told Reuters Saudi influence on Islam in Malaysia “has come at the expense of traditional Malay culture”.
Her father, 93, now heads the opposition alliance.
Saudi Arabia’s fundamentalist Wahhabi beliefs have strongly influenced Malaysia – and neighbouring Indonesia – for decades, but have strengthened considerably since Najib became prime minister in 2009 and began cosying up to the kingdom.
The relationship came under a harsh spotlight when nearly US$700 million (about RM2.9 billion) wound up in Najib’s bank account in 2013. Najib said it was a donation from the Saudi Royal family, rebutting allegations it was money siphoned from the 1MDB state investment fund he had founded and overseen. Malaysia’s attorney-general cleared him of any wrongdoing.
The trend toward a politicised brand of Islam in Malaysia, a middle-income emerging market, has alarmed Malaysia’s non-Muslims, including ethnic Chinese who comprise a quarter of the population and dominate private sector commerce. It is also a concern for foreign investors, who account for nearly half the local bond market and have invested US$8.95 billion in project investments in the first nine months of this year.
The government denies actively promoting Wahhabi-style Islamic conservatism.
Najib has been largely silent about the recent religious controversies. Critics have accused the prime minister, whose governing coalition lost the popular vote in the last general election but retained a simple majority in Parliament, of playing on fears that Islam and Malay political power will be eroded should the opposition win. An election is due by mid-2018.
Election calculations
Militancy has also been on the rise in Malaysia, which from 2013 to 2016 had arrested more than 250 people with alleged ties to Islamic State, many of whom were indoctrinated with hardline interpretations of Islam.
After the visit of the Saudi monarch this year, Malaysia announced plans to build the King Salman Centre for International Peace to bring together Islamic scholars and intelligence agencies in an effort to counter extremist interpretations of Islam.
The centre, which is being built on a 16-hectare plot in the administrative capital of Putrajaya, will draw on the resources of the Saudi-financed Islamic Science University of Malaysia, and the Muslim World League, a Wahhabi Saudi religious body.
Saudi Arabia has long been funding mosques and schools in Malaysia, while providing scholarships for Malaysians to study in the kingdom. Many of them find employment in Malaysia’s multitude of Islamic agencies, said Dr Farouk Musa, chairman and director of the moderate think-tank, Islamic Renaissance Front.
One of the most worrisome doctrines they preach in multi-cultural Malaysia is “al-w ala’ wa-al-bara” or “allegiance and disavowal”, Farouk said. “This doctrine basically means do not befriend the non-believers (al-kuffar), even if they are among the closest relatives.
“We have never heard of Islamic scholars forbidding Muslims to wish Merry Christmas before, for example. Now, this is a common phenomenon,” he said.
The adoption of Arab culture and interpretations of Islam is a result of greater exposure to Middle Eastern people and universities, said Abdul Aziz Kaprawi, an Umno supreme council member.
“The extensive usage of social media also accelerated the external influence on the locals,” he said.
The government is not promoting Wahhabism but rather the doctrine of “wasatiyyah”, or moderation and balance, to accommodate Malaysia’s multi-cultural society, said Abdul Aziz, who is also a federal deputy minister.
Crown prince’s reforms?
Karima Bennoune, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for cultural rights, expressed concern in a report after her September visit to Malaysia about the deepening involvement of religious authorities in policy decisions. She said this was influenced by “a hegemonic version of Islam imported from the Arabian Peninsula” that was “at odds with local forms of practice.”
She also expressed concern about “the banning of books, including some about moderate and progressive Islam, in the country when the government extols these very concepts abroad”.
Marina said religious departments, staffed with Saudi graduates, “are now consulted on absolutely everything, from movies to health and medicine to insurance, all sorts of things that they do not necessarily have any expertise in”.
The kingdom also exerts leverage over Muslim-majority countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia through the quotas it gives to countries for the number of pilgrims they can send on the Hajj, one of the five pillars of Islam that all capable Muslims must perform at least once in their lives.
This could all start to change if Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammed Salman succeeds in returning the Saudi kingdom to “a moderate Islam,” which he says was practised before 1979.
He has already scaled back the role of religious police, permitted public concerts and announced women will be allowed to drive.
The kingdom has also set up an authority to scrutinise uses of the “hadith” – accounts of the sayings, actions or habits of the Prophet – to prevent them being used to justify violence or terrorism.

iloveselangor

No more tahlil, balik raya bermaafan, ziarah kubur, yassin malam jumaat, talkin etc.......

AbukRokok

dah nak semakin kereban ni
adakah kita nak jadi suriah/yemen atau Libya?

jazaa100

iloveselangor replied at 22-12-2017 03:06 PM
No more tahlil, balik raya bermaafan, ziarah kubur, yassin malam jumaat, talkin etc.......

Ikut arab ek?....

Tapi raya je yg tak blh ikut....arab sambut raya satu hari je...msian sebulan....kekdg terlajak pulak....

iloveselangor

jazaa100 replied at 22-12-2017 03:29 PM
Ikut arab ek?....

Tapi raya je yg tak blh ikut....arab sambut raya satu hari je...msian sebulan ...

Nanti sis tengok la diorang tu bakal diIslahkan untuk sambut hari Raya 1 hari sahaja sambil lobai2 sindir Melayu, Gemok2 sebab melahap sebulan lebih selepas berpuasa sebulan.

~boolean

Satu peel melayu yang paling aku tahan bila mereka memuji orang arab seolah bangsa itu lah paling mulia di muka bumi hanya kerana nabi kita lahir di belah2 sana..

batu kikir

~boolean replied at 22-12-2017 03:50 PM
Satu peel melayu yang paling aku tahan bila mereka memuji orang arab seolah bangsa itu lah paling mu ...

Tu lah yg aku pelik. Bangsa yg perasan bagus, hidup berpuak-puak, suka bergaduh dan berbunuhan, kasar macam barbarian......berpeluk cium dengan Yahudi ......ini yang jadi idola Melayu. Kecuali Nabi....Arab lain is a failed race. Kalau tak de minyak.....ramai taraf peminta sedekah je. Innovasi yilek.

Ps Parsi (Persian) bukan bangsa Arab OK. Mereka hebat.....sampai tukang karang hadis ialah orang Parsi. Ilmuwan banyak dari Parsi termasuk Ibn Sina

pokaibanktokyo

idiot debt ridden reuters employee. Private sector commerce is dominated by MNCs and GLCs

peringatan

arab memang hebat, handsome cantik hidung mancung terletak

ana arab

pokaibanktokyo

mana lebih sedap di bukit bintang ? Ayam arab atau ayam china ?

pyropura

jazaa100 replied at 22-12-2017 03:29 PM
Ikut arab ek?....

Tapi raya je yg tak blh ikut....arab sambut raya satu hari je...msian sebulan ...

Lagi satu nangis hiba di malam raya, itu mulayu gagal ikut arab

pyropura

peringatan replied at 22-12-2017 05:07 PM
arab memang hebat, handsome cantik hidung mancung terletak

ana arab

Ok betul, tapi kenapa mulayu idong kemek kepam berkerak pendek gemok nak ikit2 arob? Tu yg aku geli nengok nyah

peringatan

pyropura replied at 22-12-2017 05:15 PM
Lagi satu nangis hiba di malam raya, itu mulayu gagal ikut arab

sedara mara kau je yg nangis malam raya sebab tarak duit nak buat ketupat rendang

peringatan

pyropura replied at 22-12-2017 05:18 PM
Ok betul, tapi kenapa mulayu idong kemek kepam berkerak pendek gemok nak ikit2 arob? Tu yg aku gel ...

ana kalau cakap, gerenti betul punya la

semua fact fakta

sekngucing

raya sebulan ni aku tak tahan.. hahaha
mat saleh sambut krismas sehari aja... melayu dibantainya sebulan...
first time aku tgok org raya sebulan.. masa tahun 2001, time aku dtg selangor... mula mula pelik... lama lama dah biasa...

jazaa100

peringatan replied at 22-12-2017 05:07 PM
arab memang hebat, handsome cantik hidung mancung terletak

ana arab

Arab memang cantik....

Tapi perangai burokk.....

jazaa100

sekngucing replied at 22-12-2017 05:24 PM
raya sebulan ni aku tak tahan.. hahaha
mat saleh sambut krismas sehari aja... melayu dibantainya se ...

Org arab pun tak paham melayu sambut raya sebln....

Dorang lepas solat raya...pi kerja mcm biasa....tapi aku rasa tak lama lg...arab pun ikut raya sebln, sbb kan dah ramai arab duduk sini..
Nanti terbawak lah budaya tu ke sana..

sekngucing

jazaa100 replied at 22-12-2017 06:32 PM
Org arab pun tak paham melayu sambut raya sebln....

Dorang lepas solat raya...pi kerja mcm bias ...

melayu bangsa jiwang... jiwa halus...

pyropura

jazaa100 replied at 22-12-2017 06:23 PM
Arab memang cantik....

Tapi perangai burokk.....

Lava tu dah ngaku arab pulak, geli betul jubo aku membacanya ...

pyropura

Arab lah yang menyevabkan melayu tak jadi cerdik macam cina ... kimak punya arab xilaka  lahnat