It is time for PAS Kelantan to look forward.
Yes the proposal to implement hudud had been passed by the Kelantan state legislative assembly in 1993 and again through the Kelantan Syariah Criminal Code Enactment (2) 1993. However, it is 2014 now and PAS together with DAP and PKR have formed a coalition named Pakatan Rakyat. During GE13, a vote for PAS was also a vote for DAP and PKR, and vice verse.
The statement made by the Deputy Kelantan Menteri Besar Mohd Amar Nik Abdullah that the consensus of the opposition coalition not to implement hudud was only with regard to the national context cannot hold water.
It is impossible to have 2 different criminal law systems in one country. There is no way that hudud in Kelantan and secular criminal law system at national level can exist parallel to each other. Stealing is a criminal offence and convicted theft should be punished under the same criminal legal system no matter where the offence was committed.
Brunei had announced in October that new syariah law punishments would be phased in, which would eventually include flogging, the severing of limbs and death by stoning. However, Brunei, a country where two-thirds of the population adheres to Islam, has recently postponed its implementation of harsh Islamic punishments.
Not ony that, the Constituent Assembly of Tunisia (parliament) has also ratified several articles from the draft constitution that adopted the principles that (1) the concept of the “civil state” without making Islam the main source of legislation, and (2) the notion that the state not only protects freedom of belief and religious practice but also “freedom of conscience”.
It is time for PAS Kelantan to look around the world and understand that to implement hudud in Kelantan is unconstitutional and is not suitable for a multiracial and mulit-religion society like Malayisa.