[GarryPaterson]

I agree with you on the Malaysian Insider website being secularists and they normally report the news with a very negative slant towards Islam. The point I was trying to make is that the court had allowed the imposition of such a law which prevents dakwah from being done just because the religious authority does not want to recognise that person as someone with religious credentials. No doubt in the states controlled by the Islamist party and their allies, this is not a problem, however in the states controlled by the ruling nationalist regime, they can exert their control as has been done in this case. Dakwah is being threatened by this development. Soon we will have people being arrested just because they decided to talk about Islam to some nationalist and he decides that this person does not have credentials and should not speak. They could even arrest people on matters of khilaf, point being example my recent post in this thread:

http://www.sunniforum.com/forum/show...fist-in-length

just because they decide that the matter is something they deem "deviant'' from their "version'' of they say Islam is. They made decide to enforce the Shafi'i school on those in the country without giving thought to those who are from the Hanafi, Hambali or Maliki schools that differ in view. Based on my experience in many local villages in the country, a lot of these village people have been influenced and brainwashed into believing only the Shafi'i school (or their version of the Shafi'i) school is correct without even understanding what it I means to be following a particular school of Fiqh. I know my post is starting to turn into a bit of a rant, but the fact is this is what is happening the Malaysia and the fact that such a law can now come into effect will further stop people from being able to teach Islam be it from Shafi'i or other madhab's in the country. The only good I see is that this can be used against those deviant Rafidi's with their shirk beliefs and the Ahmadiyyah with their false prophet.