Penang PAS Youth Afnan Hamimi Taib Azamudden has accused Lim Guan Eng of \u201cpolitical interference\u201d in the appointment of the state mufti, and that the Penang chief minister had a hand in ensuring that the former state mufti\u2019s contract was not renewed.<\/p>\n
As reported by New Straits Times (NST), he said that Lim was responsible for the non-renewal of state mufti Datuk Seri Hassan Ahmad\u2019s contract when it expired in June 2014.<\/p>\n
According to the report, Afnan said Hassan\u2019s contract was not renewed because the latter had objected to Lim\u2019s orders that non-Muslims in Penang be allowed to use the word \u201cAllah.\u201d<\/p>\n
The PAS leader said that Lim had issued a statement back in December 2014 allowing non-Muslim to use the word \u201cAllah\u201d, and that this violated Section 48 of the state Administration of the Religion of Islam Enactment 2004.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is said that after the issue, Lim had demanded that the fatwas (decree) be made known to the state executive council meeting first before being presented to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.<\/p>\n
\u201cHassan, who was the mufti then, objected to the order. Soon after that his contract was not renewed,\u201d Afnan reportedly said.<\/p>\n
Afnan, who was part of Penang\u2019s state fatwa committee, said that the issue of political intervention by the state government had been raised in the past.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnder any circumstances, the importance of Islam supersedes that of political importance. And, it is based on this principle that we feel we need to raise this issue,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Penang PAS Youth Afnan Hamimi Taib Azamudden has accused Lim Guan Eng of \u201cpolitical interference\u201d in the appointment of the state mufti, and that the Penang chief minister had a hand in ensuring that the former state mufti\u2019s contract was not renewed. As reported by New Straits Times (NST), he said that Lim was responsible […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":{"id":53857,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":799,"height":487,"file":"2017\/02\/Afnan-Hamimi.jpg","filesize":102922,"sizes":{},"image_meta":{"aperture":"1.8","credit":"","camera":"NIKON D90","caption":"????????????????????????????????????","created_timestamp":"1308450335","copyright":"","focal_length":"50","iso":"200","shutter_speed":"0.016666666666667","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":53856,"source_url":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Afnan-Hamimi.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}