YOURSAY | Religious figures are not exempted from crime reporting
Modified23 Dec 2020, 1:32 am
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That is what Ahmad Marzuk Shaary, a deputy minister of religious affairs from PAS, is saying.
To me, what Marzuk is saying is that Islamic religious figures are not accountable to anyone and the law. Is that the teaching he is giving to Muslims with the added authority as deputy religious minister?
In my books, religious figures who commit crimes should be given twice the punishment on earth so that the congregation will know that what has been done is wrong and that clerics are held to a higher law than the penal code of the land.