Ulasan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim terhadap komen PM mengenai Ikhwanul Muslimin dan Sheikh Yusuf Qaradhawi
Laporan National Review ada memetik ucapan Dato’ Sri Najib Razak di Turki yang dikatakan sarat dengan prasangka buruk terhadap ulama terkemuka Sheikh Yusuf al Qaradawi dan Ikhwanul Muslimin.
Perdana Menteri dilaporkan menggesa agar Ikhwanul Muslimin disisihkan dari agenda Perubahan di Mesir kerana masih terlibat dengan keganasan.
Pendapat seperti ini malahan dikritik oleh pelbagai institusi dan intelektual. Dunia kini menggesa agar Amerika Syarikat dan Eropah untuk tuntas bekerjasama dengan Ikhwan.
Saya terpanggil untuk menegur Perdana Menteri kerana pandangan sebegini jelas dianggap terpencil dan mewakili pandangan dasar luar ekstrem kanan di Amerika Syarikat. Adakah ini sebahagian dari agenda syarikat penasihat demi membaiki imej Dato’ Sri Najib di Amerika Syarikat?
Kenyataan terbaru Najib Razak juga membuka pekung kecurigaaan pemimpin tersebut terhadap ulama dan gerakan Islam seluruh dunia yang kini kian giat menyertai proses demokratisasi.
Sekiranya Perdana Menteri mempunyai kebimbangan terhadap sosok seperti Sheikh Yusuf al Qaradawi, mengapa anugerahkan beliau Tokoh Maal Hijrah Kebangsaan tahun 2009/1431?
Sekiranya terbukti benar tohmahan Najib Razak terhadap Sheikh Yusuf al Qaradawi, saya menuntut Perdana Menteri agar segera memohon maaf dari ulama tersebut.
ANWAR IBRAHIM
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Malaysian PM: Muslim Brotherhood Must Renounce Violence or Be Left Out
February 23, 2011 1:01 P.M.
By Seth Mandel
Since the beginning of the uprising in Egypt and the expected power shift in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic world has rallied around the Brotherhood and demanded that the West engage with them. But a crack in that unity appeared today when Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak said that the Muslim Brotherhood “shouldn’t be part of the process as long as they don’t reject violence and extremism.”
“Anyone who wants to be part of the political process should adopt values that are compatible with democracy,” Najib said in an interview in Istanbul, where he is speaking at a conference on moderation. “It’s not just about having a vote and choosing your leaders; it’s also part of imparting the right values for democracy to work, because there are failed democracies as well.”
Najib said he has “some concerns, deep concerns” about Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Muslim Brotherhood’s spiritual leader. Those concerns center on Qaradawi’s support and justification for terrorism, which carries a great deal of weight given Qaradawi’s credibility as an Islamic scholar. It is exactly that type of Muslim leader that has led the Middle East astray, according to Najib. “We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.”
He offered his own country as a model to emerging Islamic governments in the Middle East, saying that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has described Malaysia as “modern, progressive, and moderate.”
“We shouldn’t want to impose on people, but people are welcome to study our experience and how we’ve done things in Malaysia. Perhaps it could be useful in their country,” he said.
Too many leaders, Najib said, misunderstand moderation. “I think they’re not paying enough attention to the values associated with being a moderate,” he said. “Moderate doesn’t mean that you’re a wimp — far from it. It means that you’ve chosen a path because you believe that’s the only way for global harmony and peace.”-National Review
