Mr Prime Minister : Ulamak Menyusahkan Manusia Lagi

After my Blogpost 'Making Incest Halal?' I received quite a few comments from not very happy Muslims. The following comment was sent to me by Dr Yati Hewett, an experienced O & G doctor who has delivered thousands of babies over the past 20 years. Dr Yati has put pen to paper in quite some exasperation over the silly behaviour of the ulamak type fellows and their followers in the Registration Departments and elsewhere who make the registration of Muslim babies very difficult.

As usual the non Muslims do not suffer such problems. Only the Muslims tie themselves up in knots and fall down all over their own faces. This is Club of Doom behaviour. Please read Dr Yati's comments here. I have a few more comments which follow up after this.

By Dr Yati Hewett.

Dear Sir,

As some one who has been delivering babies for the past 20 years I find the comments made by several parties that arose from the Sister's In Islam seminar titled ' What's In A Name ' last saturday 25 th of February very disturbing.

It was quoted that 85,019 Muslim babies certificates do not have their fathers' names.( NST 28/2/12).

Some of these babies, their fathers actually did the bunk. But there are a lot of these babies or children are living with their married parents in a loving home. In their birth certificates are written' information not available'.

This is a downright lie.

Their fathers had gone to the registration department but was not allowed to declare the births under Section 13 of Birth Registration Certificate Form JPN.LM01. Why can't the National registration Department write in the certificates something like ' Items like such and such as required by Ruling so and so as stated in Circular No. such and such not provided.'

National Registration Department (NRD) cannot do so because there is no such circular. Everything is done by word of mouth.That is why some Registration Offices are more harsh or lenient than others. Ever since this ruling came about 5 years ago, several parents wanted to sue. But they cannot put their hands on it. I am really happy that the President of the Bar Council said his organisation is initiating some form of legal remedy (STAR 28/2/12).

In today's NST , Puan Jainisah Mohammad Noor says now Muslims can declare under Section 13. This is what I mean. Everything is ad hoc. And she also said the NRD cannot do anything . Only the Home Ministry can. But numerous letters has been written to the papers on this matter over the years. Hasn't the Home Minister been listening ? What about the slogan ' 1 Malaysia ' or 'Masyarakat Penyayang '. Or is it lip service only. These 85,019

children deserve to know the answer.

I am beginning to wonder if today's Islam is different from Islam during the Prophet's time. The Perlis Mufti, Dr Juanda quoted that Prophet Muhammad was lenient gave the rights of guardianship to the man who owns up the child in one case. At the same seminar The Chief of Syariah Judge from Trengganu, Datuk Ismail Yahya said that the Fatwa issued by the National Fatwa Council is a muzakarrah which is not law binding.(NST 26/2/12). This ruling is unjust.Then the question now here is : Why must the NRD or the Home Minister follow the Fatwa when there are ulamas who do not agree among themselves ? Isn't there some one at all who sees where this all will lead to ?

I am also inclined to think that there are ulamas who led their lives totally out of sync of modern society. Why the need to put Bin or Binti in the birth certificates ? Have they been through airports where they have to fill embarkation and disembarkation forms ? Don't they know that computers cannot accept lengthy names ? Just treat the birth certificates as a civil document not unlike a car registration card. A lot of Muslim countries do not have Bin or Binti in their citizens names. Why do we have to be different ?

When I deliver a baby, it gives me so much maternal feelings. All I care for is the baby have a mother and father to provide a lovely home. All I want is for the child to live and grow up in a healthy enironment. This is a bit difficult whenever you take your child to the clinics or hospitals or schools when people start asking why the child has no father as implied in the birth certificate.

And when the Chairman of Fatwa Council, Tan Sri Shukor Hassan starts talking about inheritance and marriage akad nikah of the child being not valid, I really got blown away. (NST 27/2/12).

These people come from the low socio economic group. What is there to inherit ? Why talk about marriage when you don't know whether whether the child would grow up into an adult ? And he also said there is no shame involved. With due respect, Tan Sri should come down to earth.

I also hope the Royal Council should be more selective when choosing people to sit in the Fatwa Council in future.

Finally, I would like to suggest the Director General of NRD herself and the Home Minister himself should come out and discuss these issues before the figure touches 200,000. I am appealing to the maternal feelings of the present Director General. She inherited this ruling from the previous Director General.I believe she can make the difference.

Yours truly,

Dr Yati Hewett.

My comment : I hope the political leadership looks into this matter quickly. I seriously hope the political leadership does not try to solve this problem by asking the opinion of the religious idiots. They are the dunggus who cause these problems in the first place. Syaitan tidak boleh membetulkan kesesatan. Begitu juga tikus tidak boleh membaiki labu. . As Dr Yati says, these dunggus will not even know what is a 'Disembarkation card'. Just like they do not understand 'time value of money' and a million other things that have to do with living in the real world.

I will follow up on this subject again later. I just want to conclude this post by reproducing a comment sent to me by a Blog reader. This man's complaint is real. It is also not an isolated case. Here is his complaint.

Anonymous said...

My wife is an orphan. Both her parents died decades ago when she was small. When we were about to get married, JAIS insisted she produced the marriage certificates of her dead parents, otherwise she would need to go through even tougher administrative process.

I decided to bring her elder brother and two of my best friends to Narathiwat to get married. Subsequently both me and my wife registered our marriage in Gombak, only to be called for trial and we were found guilty for marrying outside the country, and each one of us was fined RM 1,000.

One thing for sure, I hate the religious authorities in Malaysia and I really think they are a bunch of bastards who make our lives difficult. Go to hell with their teachings and fatwas.

Monday, February 27, 2012 5:55:00 PM

For now I want to conclude with just one remark. We live in an increasingly complicated and post-modern world. This is the real world. Yet we allow the most uneducated and the most stupid members of our society ie the religious idiots dictate over matters that only makes our lives much harder.

The smartest kids become doctors, engineers and professionals. The not so smart become other things. The school dropouts and those who cannot get entry into any kind of other higher education become the religious graduates, the madrasah graduates, the religious teachers and so on. They become the religious class.

Yet we allow these occupants of the lowest rungs of the intellectual ladder to mess up our peoples' lives. The Government better do something quick. Stop producing these religious morons. Do not give them any kind of authority. They just cannot think. They dont understand anything except their "katak bawah tempurung" version of religion. More later.