RM4 Billion On Liquor And Gambling???

I didn't know that the Malays in this country could spend RM4billion a year on liquor and gambling! Most of the Malays are Muslims. At least 99% of the Malays I know do not drink. In this country they are not allowed to enter casinos. There are those who buy 4 digits but the amount they spend is peanuts compared to what the other communities spend on gambling. So, where did the State Mufti get his data? The Income Tax department should contact him for the details as they would be missing on a lot of revenue!

All the time I was made to understand(from the Muslim religious groups) that only the 'infidels' (unbelievers) indulged themselves in these worldly pleasures. This statement regarding the RM4 billion was issued by the Perak State Mufti, Datuk Seri Harussani Zakaria. He is the same guy who came out with the statement that we should not practice kongsi-raya celebrations because it was detrimental to the faith of the individual Muslim. Talk about putting your foot in your mouth!

Somebody is bent on dividing this country along religious and racial lines. Will we become another Kashmir? or Palestine? or Sri-Lanka? If these religious leaders are given more power, we will most definitely end up having suspicion and distrust among the races leading to the dissapearance of peace and harmony which we boast to the international community every chance we get.

These religious people like to make general statements without facts just to project themselves as champions of their religion or race. They would issue statements like "Muslims in the country also face other threats such as pluralism, hedonism and liberalism." or " the worrying trend to the secularism that had crept into Islamic society here." The simple people will immediately believe every thing he says because of the bombardic words condemning everything that is not Islamic. At the moment religious intolerence is rearing its ugly head everywhere. People who used to be friendly and considerate are now changing to being arrogant and rude.

There was a time in my younger days when we mixed freely among all the races without worrying about losing or the weakening of our individual faiths. I guess we were stronger and more faithful to our respective religions then.