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Sunday, March 22, 2015

How is it blasphemous to comment on hudud, asks father of BFM host

Professor Dr Mohamad Tajuddin Mohamad Rasdi, the father of BFM presenter Aisyah Tajuddin, is refuting allegations that his daughter committed blasphemy in a video questioning PAS’s implementation of hudud in Kelantan. – Facebook pic, March 22, 2015.Professor Dr Mohamad Tajuddin Mohamad Rasdi, the father of BFM presenter Aisyah Tajuddin, is refuting allegations that his daughter committed blasphemy in a video questioning PAS’s implementation of hudud in Kelantan. – Facebook pic, March 22, 2015.
The father of BFM presenter Aisyah Tajuddin has denied that she committed blasphemy in a video questioning the implementation of hudud in Kelantan, after police said today they would investigate the host and the producers from the business broadcaster.
Professor Dr Mohamad Tajuddin Mohamad Rasdi said she was not questioning God's law, but laws that were written by PAS and would be enforced by the Islamist party.
‎"It's funny that they can investigate her for blasphemy when the hudud she was commenting on was the hudud as interpreted by PAS," he told The Malaysian Insider when met at the sidelines of a forum on religious freedom today.
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar today said those behind the video would be called up for investigations under Section 298 of the Penal Code for blasphemy.
He said police have received at least five reports after the video was published and that the complainants felt that their religious beliefs had been mocked.
Khalid also assured that police were also tracking down those who had threatened Aisyah with rape and murder.
BFM had since removed the BFM Projek Dialog BFMKupas video clip, which was uploaded on Thursday.
The clip drew at least 6,000 views as well as hundreds of disparaging comments about Aisyah.
Tajuddin said today that if the police charged his daughter for blasphemy, then it was "incredible" that other critics of PAS's hudud, such as former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and Islamic Renaissance Front director Dr Farouk Musa, did not face similar charges.
Tajuddin said Dr Mahathir had previously remarked that PAS's hudud was unfair as it created two different sets of laws for the same crime, while Farouk rejected PAS's interpretation of the law outright.
"I certainly don't find what Dr Mahathir or Dr Farouk said as insulting. But if what Aisyah said is blasphemous, how is what they said not considered blasphemous either?
"If you charge my daughter, then I find it incredible that Dr Mahathir is not charged."
He added that unlike Dr Mahathir and Dr Farouk, Aisyah had not even criticised the law, but merely questioned the timing of its enforcement and the priorities of the Kelantan government.
When asked if he believed Aisyah could have presented the video differently, Tajuddin replied that she had carried it out in the same spirit as the video's original host.
"That is the style of Kupas – hard-hitting, provocative and satirical. She was given a script and she acted it out as required. She was only a stand-in for the original host.
"And those people who were offended by her style don't watch Kupas regularly, they don't understand its philosophy or that it is satire," said Tajuddin.
But he said his daughter was still traumatised from the death threats she had received online, and that she was considering taking leave from work.
"I don't think she will be doing any more videos for BFM in the future. Maybe BFM can offer her another job. But of course that is her choice to make." he said.
- TMI

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