Syariah vs Civil = (Islam v others)?

"Hanya orang Islam layak menjadi peguam syarie manakala pihak lain perlu mematuhi peraturan seperti ditetapkan mengikut enakmen syariah di negara ini.

Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom, berkata perkara itu sudah termaktub dalam enakmen syariah berkenaan serta diguna pakai mahkamah syariah di seluruh negara dan sesiapa yang ingin menjadi peguam syarie perlu memeluk agama Islam terlebih dulu.

Beliau berkata, jika bukan Islam dibenar menjadi peguam syarie ia akan menimbulkan beberapa masalah terutama dalam hal yang berkaitan dengan al-Quran atau hadis."

Defensive..first reaction which is a MUST, is to be DEFENSIVE?!!

WHY?
WHY are we so protective of our religion?is it OUR religion, we tend to forget that it is His,Allah s.w.t! i for one, feels that He needs no Defenders. He needs his Vicegerents to be able to initiate His religion, make others understand of His religion and NOT be defensive against attacks (let it be by words, writing or war)...as Caliphs (khalifah) apa tugas2 kite sebagai ummat Islam?

adakah kite terlalu alpa dan lupa akan tanggungjawab yang lebih utama dan besar? adakah kita akan bertempik setiap kali org memperkatakan tentang agama Islam?mengapa approach yang kita ambil, seakan-seakan takut yang AGAMA kita, yang dah memang akan KEKAL ke akhir zaman (sprt dalam Quran) akan dimamah oleh zaman? ke manusia?

bukan kah lebih bagus n indah that other human beings (sbb gune 'human being' is knape seseorang perlu di identify based on his religion or race?(kt malaysia or zaman2 apartheid jer bnda ni berlaku!!)

baru lah ade pemahaman yang mndalam ttg agama Islam bila lagi ramai org belajar mengenainya. TAPI cara kite react macam nak smbunyikan sesuatu...

are we so afraid that people are going to find out that the system is not perfect?NOTE:THE SYSTEM (JABATAN AGAMA ISLAM DI MALAYSIA & NOT ISLAM PER SE)
if that is the case then something is flawed and when there is a flaw or lacuna or wrong then something has to be done!

or is it that we are worried when other human beings start to question about Islam and we can't answer those issues? but if that is the case, doesnt it mean, we have to ensure that we are equipt with the knowledge to answer these kind of issues!

is high time these issues be tackled with n NOT swept under the carpet! it is high time that the syariah court n the system own up and start to identify the issues! we are always proud that we are a multi-national, multi-lingual, multi-ethnic, multi-racial, multi-religion..all the multis laah...tp when it comes to understanding the issues and to identify the problems n solving it, no one is owning up to anything..

WE HAVE TO ACCEPT THE FACT THAT THERE ARE OTHER BELIEFS BEING PRACTICED HERE AND THERE ARE GOING TO BE TIMES ISSUES INVOLVING CROSS-RACIAL DISPUTES AND CROSS-RELIGIOUS DISPUTES WILL ARISE, SO WHAT ARE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

it is upon us AS MUSLIMS everytime those who are clueless about the religion will often say that, it is dangerous for a person to convert to Islam because then they will lose their non-muslim family, their inheritance will die with them and so on..THESE ARE PRESSING ISSUES THAT NEEDS IMMEDIATE ATTENTION!

my two cents!