Madani Gov T Snubbed For Harbouring Zakir Naik Who Sanctions Rape Of Not Fully Covered Women

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A HUMAN rights activist has hit out at the Madani administration for its hesitation to deport global celebrity preacher Zakir Naik who has seemingly accorded green light to the rape of women are not “fully covered up” or in Islamic term, failed to don the hijab or perhaps purdah.
Azira Aziz who is also a corporate and commercial lawyer claimed that “it boggles my mind why the Madani government protects problematic religious preachers like this man”.
“People like him is why survivors find it difficult to access justice. My heart breaks whenever a survivor asks me, ‘Pn Azira salah saya ke saya dirogol? (Mdm Azira, is it my fault that I was raped)?” she penned on X. “Just deport him.”

Azira was alluding to a statement made by the controversial Muslim scholar that ”if the girl wasn’t fully covered up, she is to blame” for the rape herself and “if she was covered up, then the rape and murder that befall her is a test from God’”.
The fugitive Indian national preacher was answering the question if an individual who has committed a rape accidentally killed the girl, would be forgiven by Allah if he has repented and what justice would be accorded to the victim in this instance.
Setting the record straight, a commenter stated recounted that although Zakir Naik has been around in Malaysia long before the Madani government existence, it was nevertheless guilty of harbouring him.

“In fact, the government should have prevented him from coming here. Anyway, the Madani government is at fault for not deporting him,” she berated as a fellow commenter revealed that it was the Barisan Nasional (BN) government prior to Pakatan Harapan taking over that granted Zakir Naik’s PR (permanent resident) status.
In fact, the approval came from current Deputy Prime Minister and UMNO president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi who was then the home minister.
Another commenter asked Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Nancy Shukri and Religious Affairs Minister Datuk Dr Mohd Na’im Mokhtar “if such view can be accepted as part of the Malaysian culture”.

While many men and women netizens supported Zakir Naik’s deportation, a few argued that the latter is an asset “to maintain the conservative votes”.
As one commenter bluntly put it, “with many Malays worshipping Zakir Naik, the opposition is bound to cook up a storm for the ruling government should he be deported”. Moreover, DAP of today is unlike the party of yesteryears for it “no longer dare to touch Zakir Naik unlike the time of PH1.0”.

Whatever the case is, there are always two sides to the coin as a handful of commenters concur with his seemingly narrow view for “Zakir Naik is merely highlighting how women can prevent rape”. 

- Focus Malaysia

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