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.
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