"If it is true that the real attitude of Datuk Noor Farida and Star Publications, which claim to be champions moderation, then the journey of our country is still too far."
Source/Credit: The Malay Mail Online
By Zurairi AR | February 2, 2015
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 2 — The Ahmadiyya community is questioning the authenticity of the so-called G25’s call for moderation, after its representative Datuk Noor Farida Ariffin refused a translated Quran from the religious minority group that is labelled “deviants” in the country.
The Ahmadis also accused media house Star Publications Bhd of “double standards” for allegedly ejecting its representative at its newspaper’s invitation-only “Brave Views, Bold Ideas” forum last Saturday that purportedly champions moderation.
“We gift the Quran to all who can accept it… The reason we do that was so they can help explain that there are no discrepancies in our Quran translation, as alleged by others,” the community’s spokesman Ainul Yaqee M Zain told Malay Mail Online over phone.
“If she rejected it without checking it first, it would be a shocking thing,” Ainul said, referring to Noor Farida.
For someone who fights for moderation to act by closing doors, that is very shocking for me,” he added.
The Ahmadiyya community earlier told Malay Mail Online that it delivered a copy of the Ahmadiyya translation of the Quran to Noor Farida two weeks ago, but the latter had rejected it a day after receiving it.
In a copy of her email that was sighted by Malay Mail Online, Noor Farida told the community’s representative Indrawan Ahmad that she could not accept the gift after discussing the matter with several religious leaders.
Noor Farida said that she uses a Quran with Abdullah Yusuf Ali’s English translation, and the Ahmadi Quran might differ from the Shafi’i school of jurisprudence that she practises.
Now comprising 38 members, the G25 is a group consisting of former high-ranking civil servants and was named for its original 25 members who penned an open letter urging Putrajaya to rollback the growing Islamisation in Malaysia.
In a strongly-worded letter in December last year, the group called on the federal government to review Shariah criminal offences and assert the supremacy of the Federal Constitution over Islamic state laws in the country.
Ainul related that he attended the forum organised by the English daily The Star on Saturday night to personally express his dismay over the snub to Noor Farida, as she was among the panellists.
“She did not address my question… After the forum was done, I was trying to see the panellists, but I was stopped by a security officer. He said, ‘Sir, you’d better leave this place’,” Ainul claimed.
“If it is true that the real attitude of Datuk Noor Farida and Star Publications, which claim to be champions moderation, then the journey of our country is still too far,” said a separate statement by the community on Sunday.
The Ahmadis, also called Qadianis here, adhere to the same beliefs as the Sunni branch of Islam, but also believe that their founder Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was the Imam Mahdi, Islam’s prophesied redeemer.
In Malaysia where only the Sunni branch is officially recognised, the Ahmadiyya community was declared “deviants” by the Selangor religious authorities and subsequently forbidden to host Friday prayers in its central mosque in Selayang, Selangor.
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