AN AGITATED human rights activist and lawyer Siti Kasim has challenged Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to name an example of a nation that has triumphed in their development by incorporating religion in their administrative system.

This came about after it was revealed that Anwar who is also the Finance Minister has indeed ‘planted’ JAKIM (Malaysian Islamic Development Department) officers at various government departments despite earlier denial.

“With due respect, Mr PM what you’ve done by overzealously planting JAKIM officers in government departments is not right,” berated the vocal Orang Asli advocate in a Facebook post.

“Please give me one example of a country in this world which has achieved top-notch success by leveraging religious elements in their administrative system (whether in the realm of economy, arts or other areas of national development).

“If you’re able to furnish evidence of just one country which relies on religion to guide/steer it to overwhelming nation-building success, then I’ll agree for JAKIM to be accorded bigger role/authority to offer its opinion.”

But the odds seem to favour Siti Kasim who is adamant that “there’s no country in this world which have achieved success by leveraging religion in their administrative system”.

“Instead, the opposite is happening with countries using religion doomed for destruction not because the religion is at fault but the humans who are tasked to incorporate religion in the country’s administrative system,” justified the indie Batu candidate during the 15th General Elections on Nov 19, 2022.

“Humans have many weaknesses whereby they will eventually abuse religion to strengthen their power base.

“Therefore, I strongly feel that it is very unfortunate for a PM of a multi-cultural and multi-religious country to use JAKIM to execute a system in line with his aim to create non-violent Muslims.”

Instead of entrusting JAKIM in the country’s administrative system. Siti Kasim reckoned that it will be better for the Madani government to task the agency that administers Islamic affairs to monitor the type of Islam disseminated at mosques or taught at madrasah to curb fanatism or heresy (ajaran sesat).

“This is a better role for JAKIM instead of its function to inject so-called Islamic elements into the government’s administrative system for we don’t know for sure whether this is Anwar’s own Quran or the pure Malay Quran or the Wahabi or Syiah Quran version,” asserted Siti Kasim.

“Please leave the people in peace to pursue their own faith … Otherwise, this will be a start to disaster … I hope the people will understand where I’m coming from for religion serves no purpose at all in the government’s administrative system.” - Sept 10, 2024

https://focusmalaysia.my/siti-kasim-to-pmx-name-me-one-country-which-enjoys-top-notch-devt-by-injecting-religion-into-their-admin-system/