“Corpse bathing” incident: Don’t take the law into your hands, Idris says
MINISTER in the Prime Minister’s Department (Religious Affairs) Datuk Idris Ahmad has expressed his disapproval of citizens carrying out their own punishment on individuals suspected of committing an offence, calling it highly inappropriate.
Stressing that stealing for any reason is prohibited in Islam and offenders should be judged fairly, he said, however, the matter should be handed over to the authorities for further action.
Idris also advised the public, including mosque management, not to get caught up in certain sentiments or try to take their own action that would subject individuals suspected of committing an offence to cruelty.
“The act of recording people suspected of (committing offences) to be disseminated is also very inappropriate,” he said, in a statement.
Idris called on the people to care for their neighbours and work together to prevent social problems in the area according to their respective roles in the neighbourhood.
These comments came in the wake of a widely publicised incident, in which members of a mosque congregation punished a teenager for stealing, subjecting him to a simulated “corpse bathing” ritual.
The incident was recorded on video.
The teenager has been identified as Daniel Iskandar, 19, and sentenced to 10 days in jail and fined RM4,000 by the Selayang Magistrate’s Court on Thursday.
Daniel pleaded guilty to charges of attempting to steal from the Al Islahiah Mosque in Kuang, Rawang on Jan 8.
Defence lawyer Azman Abdullah pleaded for leniency as his client claimed that he stole to buy medicine for his grandfather. – Jan 15, 2022
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kt comments:
Bloke was lucky he wasn't bashed kaukau, and if the thief was a non-Muslim, aiyoyo he might even be dead by now.
We are aware that village vigilante "justice" has often been carried out in Malaysian countryside. Villages don't believe in Western type justice system and so what if a wee bit of injustice was accidentally done.
If you run over a chook at a village, you would see such "justice" being conducted - first (if you stop and get out of the car to apologise or even settle the unfortunate damage) you would find yourself surrounded by angry looking villagers carrying bamboo sticks or even machetes, wakakaka.
And if you think the current price on chooks are way too expensive, don't be shock by the amount demanded of you as compensation for the killed fowl.
You would be severely "punished", if not by violence then by financial ridiculousness plus a bit of shoving and pushing, wakakaka. I think the villagers love to "bully" such unfortunate victims who in most cases would be "aliens" to them.
Advice to most drivers passing such villages (any village) would be NOT/NEVER to stop, more so if you hit a child - keep going on until you see a police station, then stop to report your accident.
As mentioned, there may exist a secret desire-sadistic-mentality among villagers to punish people they have designated as "victims", and to eff with the law or Western justice.
In Chinese villages, running over a chook may not be so bad but dating a girl from that village by an "outsider" would be an act meriting the most severe punishment, by thrashing if necessary - I once nearly had such an experience but thanks to my PhD in bullshit-ology and sweet-words, managed to escape, wakakaka.
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