The Press Secretary of the President's Office (Zuhair) has openly challenged the system of Hadhdh (canning Fornicating men and women) in Islamic Sharia and the Maldivian Law. This could be interpreted as a challenge to Allah and a challenge to Islam.
What next, one wonders? Would we soon hear Zuhair or some other misguided bureaucrat openly asking for the construction of temples in the Maldives?
I supported MDP and Anni (Nasheed) and I continue to do so, but these sorts of statements from stupid and misinformed bureaucrats such as Zuhair is exposing the shortcomings of the government. I wonder where all the Islam-loving people of this country are. If a person such as Zuhair said a similar thing in, say Pakistan or Bangladesh or even Malaysia, people would have come out in force to protest on the streets, against the one who said it or even against the government! I wonder where the pseudo-religious Umar Naseer stands on this issue!
I'm not afraid of anyone but Allah. That’s the reason why I have written this comment. Who does Anni think he is? And the same could be said about his little conniving helpers if they think they can belittle Allah and His Prophet and His Religion. I do not have to write anything to bring down Anni and his government. If Anni and Zuhair think that they can plan against Allah they have forgotten that more "intelligent and powerful" people did plan against Islam and the Prophet but ultimately Allah and His religion and His Prophet prevailed - and will continue to prevail.
The issue of Hadhdh for fornicators is not open for question or debate. It is celarly stated in the Holy Koran and Hadhees.
ReplyDeleteI supported MDP and Anni (Nasheed) and I continue to do so, but these sort of statments from stupid and mis-informed bureaucrats such as Zuhair is exposing the shortcomings of the government. I wonder where all the Islam-loving people of this country are. If a person such as Zuhair said a similar thing is, say Pakistan or Bangladesh or even ... Read MoreMalysia, people would have come out in force to protest on the streets, against the one who said it or even against the government! I wonder where the pseudo-religious Umar Naseer stands on this issue!!!
ReplyDeleteI did support Anni too, but he shouldnot allow such a press secretary to be among his staff where he challengers hadhees.
ReplyDeleteexactly. If Anni doesnt make Zuhair resign then we would take it that Zuahir's words are Anni's words and that they are both challenging Koran and Hadees.
ReplyDeleteRule is simple. This is a democractic country. Zuhair should resign.
ReplyDeleteBushry, I am amazed at your sense of things. What do you eman Zuhair is stupid... did you actually ready what he said? He said both men and women should be canned if they are to be canned.
ReplyDeleteIn any case, if Sharia is to be followed literally, why are thief's hands not cut off? Why are killers not killed?
And I do think religion has been taken to stupid levels by some sheiks. The other day they were saying that all income from tourism is Haraam. So why are people not coming out on the street to protest? Because they are not dumb.
I do not think you are a very sensible nor even a godo writer. You preach something here and they you have shops to sell tight tops to teenage girls. Very sensible that is. You just need some attention so whenever their is an issue you just have to make a comment so as to attract attention. You never explore issues serious.
Given all your education and the profits you have made selling clothing, I woudl love to see you become a mroe intelligent writer.
Thank you
Ahmed
Screw u bushry. Then u should be canned!
ReplyDeleteDear ahmed pls note the following:
ReplyDelete1. I seel only men's items at my shop (so no skinny ladies tops here).
2. As for justifying that we can stop canning fornicators simply because we do not cut thieves's hands, is akin to saying that we can even murder innocent people and get away with it. Fornication is forbidden in Islam and it is forbidden in our Law. Both the Koran and the Maldivian Law imposes that the fornicator be canned.
3. As for your point about Zuhair saying that men and wwomen be canned equally: I have to say that the Sharia is equal to both men and women. Some men tell lies when the woemn accuse them of being party to the fornication. This may save the men from the punishment of this world but that cannot prevent them from Allah's wrath and Justice in the hereafter.
I'm not afraid of anyone but Allah. Thats the reason why I have written this comment. Who the hell is Anni or his little conniving helpers if they think they can belittle Allah and His Prophet and His Religion. I do not have to write anything to bring down Anni and his government. If Anni and Zuhair think that they can plan against Allah they have forgotten that more "intelligent and powerful" people did plan against Islam and the Prophet but ultimately Allah and His religion and His Prophet prevailed...and will continue to prevail.
ReplyDeleteWell.
ReplyDeleteIf this dude said so, then I totally back his views.
What kind of adultery caning leads to only the hapless women-folk being punished?
Just look at the statistics (a first step before one ventures out forming an 'opinion', let alone write an entire article calling for resignation)
Why does a Husband get to chastise and beat the wife and not vice versa?
Why does a sexual crime against a (physically weaker) woman require 4 witnesses in this time and age?
Why is a woman considered a half-being and a woman's testimony carry half the weight of a man?
Unless an overwhelmingly large number of adultery cases in this country involve lesbians, what excuse or explanation is there behind so many girls being barbarically humiliated while the men remain untouched?
Why are they intent on closing down women's mosques - not the men's?
Why must the women wear layers of clothing to suppress the male sexual desire and not vice versa?
Why shouldn't we ALL - male and female - look like manta rays and don hijabs and ensure that human race stops adultery - or procreating, for that matter.
Why is the GIRL child denied the right to an education or right to an informed choice? In the land of the pious - the Saudi Arabia - why is that WOMEN are not allowed to DRIVE?
Which Hadith mentions motorcars - or that women are forbidden from driving? Don't even attempt to dodge this question saying such a thing doesn't happen in the maldives - because ultimately the reasons DO boil down to religious reasons, and not anything else.
And that's the same thing that a few conservatives in our midst are trying to impose on us right now - in the guise of Hadith and Sunnah; a misogynistic, male dominated rigid society unlike the traditional matriarchal society that followed folk Islam for all these centuries.
And Maldivians will always defend their liberal way of life. No Maldivian will willingly give up their cherished freedoms to satisfy some lunatics definitions of 'a pious society'.
Otherwise we'd not be living in a democracy today.
Make no mistake about it.When some challenges a rule in Islam,his aim is to attack the whole of Islam.Thats simply a style of initiating a debate and testing the pulse of the people.That being said,we are living in interesting times,you can take a loan and blame on your company.
ReplyDelete"The Quran: Unchallengeable Miracle"
ReplyDeletehttp://www.quranmiracles.com/
Is Islam all about lust and fornication? With the way the mullahs speak and preach its as if what all muslim men want to do is to have sex with every woman they see on the road not covered from head to toe. It is easier for them to preach on such issues rather than address more important issues like the lack of values and morals in this society.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is not about WHAT zuhair said.But how do people react.The difference is in the way ppl react to Afrashim's wrong opinions vs Zuhair's statements.
ReplyDeleteIf Afraashim were to say such a thing,he would have been hit and there would be a public outrage.
Bushry,
ReplyDeleteIslam was forced upon Maldivians, they did not embrace Islam on thier own. Today majority Maldivians wanted to embrace Christianity. I hope the new President would take all necessary steps to make Maldives a secular state. He is a western educated graduate who understand difference of Islam and Christianity.
A place of just 300,000 and yet these arrogant,little statured, I know all bunch cannot live in harmony. Everyone wants to become the President or sit in the parliament of be a cabinet minister, for gods sake get a life! what a bunch of loosers.
ReplyDeleteAnnon 11:58
ReplyDeleteWho the hell do you think you are?, If the President tries to make this country a secular state, we will show him his way out. Thats a promise. Anyone disagreeing with me can go to hell.
Hey anon 2:44,
ReplyDeleteYou wrote "...many young people and those with a western education care very little about religion, whereas the people who studied from Pakistan and Arab countries are preaching Islam..."
That's a very crude generalisation. I studied from Singapore, United Kingdom and the Meditarranean country (Malta). UK and Malta and two of the most Christian countries in Europe, yet I do not fit into your generalisation.
what is happening here is people who do not have knowledge is trying to run a country who even does not had an experince of running an office then u could imagine what would be next.
ReplyDeleteZuhair should resign or be forced out of office. If the HEP doesn't do this then we should force him out of office.
ReplyDeleteAnnon 3:12
ReplyDeleteYou may have studied in two most christian countries and still can be ignorant.
If Maldives truely wants to be in 21st century it has to become a secular state, let maldivians be free to choose their belief
Anni thinks that he has a mandate to play even with our religion. Though we voted for MDP and continue to exercise patience with his silly appointments to various senior jobs and his theatrics, do not be dillusional and think that we will wait on the sidelines and watch while anyone rips the fabrics of our religion and culture. We will not let anyone - not even Anni - do that. Beware the fury of a patient man!
ReplyDeletePatient Man, What can you do? nothing.
ReplyDeleteThose who are calling for religious freedom are actually calling for lawlessness in our society.
ReplyDeleteI think thrwoing words like Christianity is stunt to get western support, whereas the person's real objective is to make Maldives an atheist state.
Who would belive in a book in which God send troops in Samaria to take revenge and asks to smash kids against stones and rip open the belly of pregnant women!
Yes this is in the bible!
yes this guy zuhair is stupid, even when he can't he pray five times a day, openly advocating people to go against islamic sharia, zuhair fomerly known as juha, he doesn't understand there's is a hereafter and he'll also die, and when people talking about gender differences zuhair should understand if he's a muslim we can't get away with the punishment even if we leave this world without prosecution.
ReplyDeleteplease refer quran and sunnah when commenting on islamic issues, islam is way of life and rules and regulations.
people who were wrtting to minivannews works in president office don't write what you don't have knowledge,
you people always talks about the right, when someone is always guilty, and we have complete set of chemical generation which don't respect police and elderly people cause there's know way to punish them cause fools like zuhair are haunting the government.
example": common sense, if a jail is built with cyber cafe, gym, overnight with wife who evwer, offday, just sleep and eat ( 1200rf per pax a day) , TV dcorder, this is maldivian jail , not hiltons iru fushi , any damn fool will understand this would not prevent crimes rather it would attract people to to more crimes .. sadly this is the situation in maldives now, senior government officials were jail by former dictator that doesn't necessarily mean that all other are innocent
note: only few people are sentences ( saabithu nuvaa are the most but lucky saabithu vaa can enjoy all those fecilities by killing an innocent on the road or drug dealing, robberies, mugging etc ... sad this is the situation in our country GODbless us
Annon 1056
ReplyDeleteWhat do you think Maldives now is? Paradise? give me a break, its wild wild west, law of the jungle prevails in Maldives, this is why I say, Lord has chosen a person who realy beleieves in holy trinity to lead your country, and the country must slowly embrace the true religion of Chrisitiany.
Why mention the name of Zuhairu.. He is just doing his job and following his duty.
ReplyDeleteIn Islam, the leaders have to be obeyed. So critisizing Zuhairu and calling him stupid is againt the will of Allah.
TO ANNON 3:28.
ReplyDeleteTRINITY WAS ORIGINALLY A THEORY OF THE ROMAN PAGANS WHO DID NOT WANT TO TAKE CHRISTIANITY AS A WHOLE - BUT WITH CERTAIN ADAPTATIONS TO ROMAN LOCAL BELIEFS IN THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE.
YES EVEN I BELIEVE TRINITY - IT HANGS BETWEEN MY LEGS IN TRINITY. I THINK EVERY MAN BELIEVES IN IT, OTHERWISE HOW CAN YOU BE A MAN AND EVERY WOMAN ALSO LOVES TRINITY, INFACT THEY RIDE IT - EVERY NIGHT!!
SO IT'S OK IF YOU SAY GOD CHOSES PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN TRINITY - IT'S ESSENTIAL IN A WAY, YOU KNOW??
BEST WAY TO SEE IF YOU ARE A MEMBER OF TRINITY; JUMP INTO A FIRE TILL YOUR CLOTHES GET BURNT DOWN - THEN STEP OUT OF IT AND BEND OVER, WHAT DO YOU SEE?? ROASTED TRINITY!!!
we need to see a day in maldives that everyone respects everyone. those who have faith will respect those who do not have faith. we need a day where we have tolerance and peace in this country. violence in the name of religious sentiments is illogical and uncivilized.
ReplyDeleteat the end of the day, listening to religious fundamentalists like Bushry will only lead our nation into a deep quagmire.
Yep, you're right. We will be only be saved if we leave islam behind and listen to trinity shit, and amnesty international and enemies of islam and all those who want no restraint in anything!! otherwise we are a pariah state. and best of all if we make a business deal with israel then we are the best, and we bring down islamic centre, and build a ding dong bell there (CHURCH), then we are the greatest!!
ReplyDeleteThe salvation of humanity is in the day when we all start believing that our ancestors were apes!
ReplyDeleteThen why are apes still there out in the jungle? Should'nt they be like us by now??
ReplyDeleteIf it's evolution by which we lost our apes like hairs, then tell me; why only thick hair is on the head, moustache, beard, groins and armpit??
Why do apes still have hair all over??
Give me a ring when you find the missing link - on dooms day!
-Darwin Ape de Monkey-
Some one above said;
ReplyDelete"Why does a sexual crime against a (physically weaker) woman require 4 witnesses in this time and age? "
THE WOMAN CAN EASILY SAY THAT ANY ONE SHE DISLIKES RAPED HER AND GET HIM KILLED FOR NO REASON!!!
8:38
ReplyDeleteMay Lord show you the right path. Once again I tell you that Christianity will save you from hell.
1:53
ReplyDeleteOh1 Goodie, Good! Why don't you sell this stuff on Tele-Brands, This fire resistant thing called "Christianity" It will be an instant hit with so many wild fires in Florida and Australia??
Father, Son and the holy Ghost, I Promise that we will succeed in making Maldives a Christian state. 2.06, you can mock today, but tomorrow you will be with us.
ReplyDeleteanni has to keep his promise. he has to show his christian masters that he is doing something.
ReplyDeleteclosing down mosques for women.
his master will hear the news...anni has started closing down mosques. anni can justify taht he IS following the paln.
govenment officials publicly speaking against islam.
news for annis master.
guys for beter or worse anniis doing this. and he has a master who for sure, according to him is not a GOD. but a woman.
zuhair is a smart not a stupid guy bushry. his job proves that.
you are stupid bushry.
you love islam you say.
annis goverment heads talk openly against islam.
still you have nothing against anni or mdp.
you think god doesnt know that you wrote this saying these two things in the same post.
so you are stupid to assume that god is stupid.
.stupid guy.
i was disgusted to read this short of things
ReplyDeletedid anybody notice what new maldives minister shaheed said about this hudhoodh issue? he essentially said one can be a good muslim ignoring some aspects of sharia. Not his words but seems to be the meaning. the article is in do review. so how can these people talk about islam while they openly and brazenly advocate against islam?
ReplyDeleteto anonymos July 15, 2009 11:50 AM
ReplyDeletewe are the missing link. give me a ring if have any evidence that we ar not. Also for your information, Koran is a book that it does not deny the theory of evolution. It can be only argued that man did not evolve from apes as per Koran.
Thank's for comleting my paragraph about missing link, above - you I can't write a book here, so i have limited my words.
ReplyDeleteIn any case i was responding to an atheist remark about apes. There is no problem on evolution with me as far as these atheists don't include human beings in the evolution ladder. The so called 'missing link' between man and apes will never be found - because it's a lie and it's an excuse!
Yes, Quran supports evolution, because it is from Allah!
It was Allah's mercy that Maldives embraced Islam!
ReplyDeleteWe should thank Allah for showing us the right path, Islam when we were ignorant and gave us the strength to ward off evil (Portugese/Malabars) who wanted to impose their will on us. Allah has really been kind to us.
Thank you -Allah- We Love You - Always keep our hearts radiant with Islam!
Oh! Allah show the exit door (Hulhule Departure terminal) to all those who come greedily (Portugese/Malabars) to create havoc among and steal our faith, as You have always done in the past.
And, Oh! Allah, stray all home grown culprits (King Hassan) who want to play with our faith and give them a dog's death as you have given to King Hassan who died in a sad state forsaken by all in a remote place in Kerala! His sad dream died with him.
Oh! Allah,We Love you!
Allah! We are confident in our hearts that You will not take us back to paganism and folly ideas like trinity or anything!
Allah! SHOO THESE FOOLISH LITTLE SCHEMERS TO WHERE THEY BELONG OR SHOW THEM THE RIGHT PATH AND ENLIGHTEN THEM WITH ISLAM, AND CAUSE THEM TO BE STRUCK BY A COCONUT AND FORGET THEIR ILL MOTIVE AGAINST US!
OH ALLAH! WE LOVE YOU, YOUR PROPHET AND FEAR YOU! SAVE US FROM ALL EVIL LIKE YOU HAVE IN THE PAST!
Do you guys really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That's not morality, that's just sucking up, applepolishing, looking over your shoulder at the great surveillance camera in the sky, or the still small wiretap inside your head, monitoring your every move, even your every base thought. As Albert Einstein said, ‘If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
ReplyDeleteDo you know that religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. Wake up. let's free all Maldivians from fear of God, fear of state, and fear of families. Let them be rational thinkers.
You know what happens when you plagiarise someone else's work without proper citation or acknowledgement. You fail!!!! Right.
ReplyDeleteKoran was plagiarised from Jewish Torah and the Old Testament. Thats a fact. So the author of Koran obviously did not get a pass mark. So, I am not following Koran. What do you reckon?
Tsk! Tsk! How pathetic could you get?
ReplyDeleteNow I know you are lowest of the low humbug!
You have purposedly ignored the New Testament!
So I don't have to tell who you are! (Which group of people in the world only believe the Old Testament and the Torah?!! Kekeke!)
See! Caught you like a pathetic rat!
And by the way what are you doing in the Maldives??
This is why I have been telling - some one is 'dhalu beyrun jehening'!
It's one thing to copy but another to avoid copying absurdities from it?
Ehem! Do you really want to go into details how Quran ommitted absurdities from the old testament and the New Testament?
Now I am confused! Are you an atheist, Jew or Christian?
Or one who can adjust to all three with the tone of comments, here?
By the way also tell me one thing - what is so dirty about giving birth to a baby girl as the Bible says?
anon July 17 I dont have much to tell me. Show a good enough proof that Quran is plagarism. But dont show me the things that Dr Zakir or Deedad has prroved to be not plagarsim and dont show me the parts the the chimberbell has confessed that their religion has no answer to the questions in front of Islam.
ReplyDeleteIf you guys claim to be athist...y do you bother of talking about religion? Come on dont waste ur time talking about things u dont belive...ppl will say ur lunaatics.
Bushry,
ReplyDeleteAfter reading some of your articles in the past months, i strated hating you thinking that you strated worshipping Anni. Now you've proved that i was wrong and you've kept your promise, i.e, you promised to strive to get the best deal for your love (your nation).
thank you very much for writing this article. You are still the best. I love you very much, as one muslim would love the other...
Islam in Maldives or anywhere else is ALLAH's gift as light up on light.
ReplyDeleteNo human in this world or never ever can dim the mentioned light in any part of the universe.
Any party or government or individual can not take the credit or claim or gain direct or indirect gains by claiming THE MAN WHO PROTECTED ISLAM in Maldives.
Make sure WA MAA ARUSALNAA ILLA RAHMATHAH LIL AALAMEEN, is the man who is the champion of AL YAUM AKMALTH LAMUM DHEENAKUM WARALEETHA LAKUMUL ISLAAM DHAANA, that, it.
No matter you live in Maldives or you belongs to MDP & its Government or either you belongs to AZHAR Graduate so called MAN FOR ALL ISLANDS.Make sure same rules , values , principles & laws with SHARIA applies the same.
Therefore i describe issue about ISLAM vs POLITICS in Maldives is very well organized, orchestrated, cosmetic & inside game of MALDIVIANS to get short cut to presidency.
Adam Rasheed Ahmed
Pen Name: ARUVAALI AADHANU,
Can be reach:
http://manaamanthiri.blogspot.com
http://3november1988.wordpress.com
wowmaldives@hotmail.com
wowmaldives@gmail.com
wowmaldives@yahoo.com
SORRY for my typing ERRORS.
ReplyDeleteCorrection:
AKMALTHU.
VAMAA ARUSAL NAAKA.
DHEENA