Penang to ban Muslims from taking part in beauty pageants - REAL STUPID MOVE BY PENANG GOVERNMENT

Why Penang is doing this. It should be a progressive state with freedom for it rakyat and less government interferences in the private lives of the Penang people. As I said 80% of Malays the silent majority are progressive Malays who treat religion as a personal matter and take is interference in their private life as a redline the state government have crossed. They will punish PH come this elections by staying away from voting in GE 14. BN-UMNO must be smiling with glee on how stupid the PH Penang government is. I predict the UMNO will increase its state and parliament seats in Penang

Penang to ban Muslims from taking part in beauty pageants

Predeep Nambiar

 | April 3, 2017

Mufti says king has given his consent to the ban, which will be made state law.

GEORGE TOWN: Muslims are to be banned from partaking in any beauty pageants in Penang.

An edict to this effect by the state Fatwa Council has been consented to by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, said state Fatwa Committee chairman Wan Salim Wan Mohd Noor.

“Since we have the consent, the fatwa will be presented to the state legal adviser to be turned into state law. InshaAllah, the fatwa will take effect soon,” he said when contacted.

In the states that do not have a sultan, such as Penang, the head of Islam is the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.

Wan Salim said three other fatwas were awaiting consent by the king. These were related to state land management, state wakaf land management and a ban on shisha (Arabian tobacco hookah).

He said the three were being reviewed by the king and a final verdict on the matter may take several months.

He was responding to repeated claims by PAS that several fatwas had been put on hold as they had to go through the state executive council for approval.

Wan Salim had previously denied such claims and said fatwas went through the state executive council as the state legal adviser had to peruse them before they were gazetted as state Islamic law.

Penang PAS Youth chief Afnan Hamimi Taib Azamudden told Utusan Malaysia yesterday it was mulling taking legal action against the state government over the delay and alleged meddling in the state Fatwa Committee.

On PAS’ call to take the Penang government to court on the “four pending fatwas” and alleged meddling, Wan Salim said that was entirely up to them.