Disruption of Muay Thai competition strengthens MCA’s view that cultures not approved by PAS will be affected
28 June 2012
Press Statement by MCA Youth Federal Territory Chief YB Senator Chiew Lian Keng, JP
Disruption of Muay Thai competition strengthens MCA's view that cultures not approved by PAS will be affected
The decision by the Kota Bahru Municipal Council (MPKB) to disrupt the muay thai competition at a popular shopping centre (The Star, 28 June 2012) only adds weight to our statements that the implementation of PAS hudud law will indeed affect the non-Muslims way of life, including things which are considered part and parcel of our culture and tradition.
MPKB's excuse to disrupt the event by claiming that there was no approval for the competition is only a cover for them to covertly impose their own hardline principles of what is right and wrong in their own eyes. Although MPKB has yet to give a proper reason why the kickboxing competition was disrupted, it can be assumed that it has something to do with the kickboxing sports costume not being in-line with PAS' hudud principles that any attire must fully cover up the individual, even for sports.
I say this because in September 2010, the Kelantan state government had also sought to impose a new ruling onto the players of a similar sport, known as tomoi, by saying that shorts and talisman and tattoos are to be barred in-line with PAS hudud principles, despite the fact that many tomoi kickboxers already have tattoos and that tattoos are part and parcel of the tomoi culture and tradition.
Sports hones skills, discipline
Martial arts is a discipline which requires skill and grace. Thus, encouraging youths to take up this sport will benefit the state as it will keep them from being involved in unhealthy activities or crime. Instead, due to the narrow-mindedness of PAS leaders, they have chosen not to see the good in it, and have decided to impose heavy fines on the organizers as a way to deter them from organising similar activities.
This is merely a sign of things to come should PAS, through DAP's help, take over the federal government. Once Pakatan gains Putrajaya, non-Muslim representatives in DAP and PKR will be helpless to stop PAS from further implementing its Islamic agenda to establish a theocratic state.
Senator Chew Lian Keng, JP
MCA Youth Federal Territory chairman
-MCA online-
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