Najib: Money laundering,human trafficking, murdering, lying , harassing, cheating , creating racial tension is okay in Islam NOT LGBTs, liberalism, pluralism

Are the Imams really stupid to listen to Najib?

It is right to topple any Govt that is unjust to it's people, irrespective of whether it is Muslim or not. Govt is of the people, by the people and for the people. Religion has a place in putting moral boundaries in the process of governance. This is true of any worthwhile religion. Injustice, victimization of the poor, corruption and cheating are condemned by any religion including I am sure, Islam. So how could changing a corrupt unjust government by the due process of a lawful electoral process be anti-Islam?

Regardless of whether one believes in one God or no god or many Gods or Goddesses, it is one's duty to oust an unjust government. BN is an unjust government that has to be ousted for all believers or unbelievers to survive. Bloody hypocrite of a PM talks with a forked tongue. Bersih rallies are haram but he sponsors and supports Perkasa, Pekida, mat rempit rallies. All these are encouraged because they are orchestrated to glorify PM and UMNO.

Islamphobia is primarily promoted by Umno It has spread over the world Can someone please offer us non-malays the sweetness of Islam? lay off religion for politics, separate politics from religion. If I may add, same thing goes for racism as well. But then, who listens and who cares?Any government which is unjust will have to be disposed of ---be it of a muslim belief , or of a christian religion or of a buddhist inclination What has religion got to do with it? Evil is not acceptable whether Islamic or christianic or buddhistic A 'Muslim' government doesnt automicaly qualify a government as perfect,above all faults The bastarded party has twisted everything Satan's way! There is no more truth or justice! hilarious that Utusan is resorting to Islam to justify propping up unjust leaders. It is as good as an admission that Muslim politicians in government are unjust, thereby shooting themselves in their collective feet again.We don't need a religion to tell us that it is proper to remove the government if it is unjust. Using common sense is enough. The government leaders are elected by the people to manage their country on their behalf. If the managers are unjust, corrupt and tyrannical, they do not manage the country properly. If that is the case, then they must be given the sack.

scans of 90 gay and straight men and women, and found that the size of the two symmetrical halves of the brains of gay men more closely resembled those of straight women than they did straight men. In heterosexual women, the two halves of the brain are more or less the same size. The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community along with liberalism and pluralism were today branded as enemies of Islam by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak in front of a crowd of over 11,000 imams and mosque committee members from across the nation.“LGBTs, pluralism, liberalism ― all these ‘isms’ are against Islam and it is compulsory for us to fight these,” he said.Najib also said the government supports human rights, but within the boundaries of Islam.“We do support human rights, but we must do so within the boundaries set by Islam,” he said.The prime minister also told Muslims to avoid discord which could threaten those who safeguard Islamic principles.“If the nation falls into a state of chaos, who will safeguard these people?” he asked.The event, organised by the Prime Minister’s Office, started off with the Minister in Prime Minister’s Office Maj-Gen (R) Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom saying that imams must defend the government against these threats.“There are so many attacks on our religion. LGBTs, pluralism, liberalism, Seksualiti Merdeka. We must stand strong and defend the government,” he said.Attendees were also given a book which was written by Najib himself, entitled “Agenda Islam Dalam Transformasi Negara”.Yesterday, Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim also said that he did not support the rights of LGBTs and advocates the sanctity of marriage being that between a man and a woman.Liberalism is the belief in total liberty and equality of an individual, while many conservative Muslims are opposed to religious pluralism because of fears it could lead to other religions being put on the same standing as Islam.This announcement came at a good time for me, as I've been thinking very much about judgment lately. I know that my own judgments have cost me a great deal over the years, and I've been exhorting my students and friends to consider how often they judge. I've noticed that the act of judging seems to follow observation as automatically as throat clearing follows a cough; as an act it is reflexive and ubiquitous, but can be trained away with a little practice. LGBT should be allowed their place under the sun. In the first place, they did not ask to be born with the stigma of their sexuality. Laws should not be passed to marginalize them. Likewise, the LGBT should not ask for special laws to protect them. Que sera sera... Dr.Jag Seattle, Washington first of all I am not against gay and certainly not supporting it, but for humanity I strongly, advice you human being go and study the actual(not the BN) human psychology books or info regarding all the patterns, gene and cells of a human being is differ that why you get a lot of type of characters in human, example polite, softer, fierce, get angry very fast, arrogant, playful, gays, pervert, psychotic just don't try to bring it as an issue of politics, nothing the hell concerns it. Everything I mean really everything in this world comes in the roof of psychology that shows how your brain thinks and works. Because Malaysia haven't really imposed this properly under the education system in fact this is the most important and top priority.I have been practicing this with my younger students for the past ten years and it works very well. Statistics of 75% success.

  The Buddha said that in making a judgment we express a preference and in expressing a preference we create suffering in both judge and judged. Lao Tze, the great Taoist sage, said pretty much the same thing. Of course Lao Tze also said that the Tao -- the ubiquitous, universal path and force -- that can be expressed in words is not the same thing as the Way itself, then went on to write a whole scroll (book) on the subject. Even though words were less than ideal, even a great master had to use them to function in his role as teacher and guide.Therein, of course, lies the rub. Words and symbols are not the same thing as the ideas or objects they represent, yet we need them to communicate. In the same way, while excessive judgment can indeed cause separation and suffering, some judging is required if we are to live in a world with objects and others. Judging, like writing or speaking, is a useful tool. Eschewing it completely limits us and makes everyday life unworkable. Cleaving to an absolute, rigid idea may be OK, but without judgment we cannot make decisions and without decisions we cannot act. That's fine if we are at the end of our days and ready to ascend a mountain to breathe our last, but living and working in a material world requires some judging.Both the Buddha and Lao Tze talk about taking a middle road and living a harmonious, balanced life, and that is precisely what is required when it comes to judging. In truth, some of us let the pendulum of judgment swing too far in the direction of inconsiderately judging everything and everybody. Working on our habit by trying to stop judging completely can be a useful exercise; it helps bring the pendulum back to center in the same way a strict regimen can help us regain control of our diet. Think of judging like eating. When we eat pathologically, we eat without discrimination. We simply see something and shove it into our mouth out of habit or a need for emotional gratification. To stop this habit, we make a few judgments and express some preferences too. We prefer nutritious food to junk. We prefer being healthy to being sick. We prefer to live a longer life. We prefer living to dying.We make judgments in our relationships, too. We simply must. If our spouse, child or partner suddenly stops bathing and working in favor of lying in bed in a drunken stupor all day, it may not be enough to withhold judgment. Can we be understanding and kind? Can we look to our own problems to understand why one or more of those issues rankles us so keenly? Can we wish to connect with them and feel their pain? We can and perhaps we should, but at the same time we must also urge a bath and a job and perhaps even orchestrate an intervention. If nothing works, if that person continues to spiral downward, we may feel compassion and pain too, but having done everything we possibly can we may also prefer to move on to a healthier relationship.On the other hand, we may be the kind of person who takes refuge in rigidity and sameness, the kind of person who, lacking a self-confident, self-respecting core, seeks to raise himself up by putting others down. In that case we are using judgment as a weapon rather than a tool, and in doing so we are indeed slicing and chopping our way to alienation and unhappiness rather than embracing connection and satisfaction. If our pendulum has swung this far in the direction of thoughtless judging, we must indeed work to change our behavior, looking inside for the source of the urge to judge rather than preoccupying ourselves with the imagined shortcomings of others.

    In judging as in other areas of life, if what you seek is harmony, it all comes down to balance.Fear will be the death of me. That's what I hear denominations trying to tell us, "Fear will be the death of me." Until today, I've restrained from calling people "homophobic." I've called their laws homophobic, their ideas homophobic, their words homophobic, but never them. So, today I'm coming out as a person who calls other people homophobic.Why? Well, because they are. Homophobia is the fear of homosexuality. At this point, it is impossible for me to believe that most people who hide behind the Bible or denominational polity haven't had more than ample time to recognize that those two things simply don't support their belief that homosexuality is a sin.I've written on the topic from time to time and have produced what many say is the one of the best resources online to combat biblical gay bashing (there are plenty of other equally good resources). There are also some exceptional books on the topic that go into much greater depth about the very few places the Bible makes any mention of same-sex relationships. All of them show clearly that using the Bible to condemn homosexuality is an act of misreading the Bible. For anyone who has been exposed to this very clear research, using the Bible to condemn homosexuality is a willful misuse of the Bible and, as I point out in my piece on the "clobber verses," it is also exactly what the Bible considers "using God's name in vain to be."

    For me, the final nail in the "you're being homophobic coffin" is this video from Matthew Vines. It is a must watch. Yes, it is and hour long. Yes, it is just a guy giving a lecture -- but it is so much more than that. It is brilliant. It is well-researched. It is precisely presented. It is emotional. It is personal. Everyone needs to watch this.

From his talk:

"It's still commonplace for straight Christians to say, 'Yes, I believe that homosexuality is a sin, but don't blame me -- I'm just reading the Bible. That's just what it says.' Well, first of all, no, you are not just reading the Bible. You are taking a few verses out of context and extracting from them an absolute condemnation that was never intended. But you are also striking to the very core of another human being and gutting them of their sense of dignity and of self-worth. You are reinforcing the message that gay people have heard for centuries: You will always be alone. You come from a family, but you'll never form one of your own. You are uniquely unworthy of loving and being loved by another person, and all because you're different, because you're gay."

Please, when you finish this article, watch it and share it with as many people as you possibly can.

My denomination, the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America, at its national gathering this year voted against marriage equality. Some of those who opposed recognizing marriage equality stood up and basically equated same-sex relationships with bestiality (among other things). They equated a loving, consenting relationship with something that is clearly not about either. These are intelligent people. So why are they willing to make such fallacious leaps in logic on top of using God's name in vain? Fear. Fear works some mighty mojo on the intellect.

"The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear." --Gandhi People are homophobic, not because they hate, but because they fear. The people who voted against recognizing marriage equality which serves only to lead our denomination further down the road to certain demise as we demonstrate clearly to younger generations that the PC(USA) prefers exclusion over inclusion and polity over people, believe it or not, are mostly loving people. They just happen to fear what they don't understand. Homophobia is the fear of homosexuality. I'm not saying they're homophobic in a hateful kind of way; I'm just saying they're homophobic in a fearful kind of way.

Being that it will be another two years before the PC(USA) can again address this issue, I'm afraid society will have already passed us by (in many ways it already is doing so); we've relegated ourselves to further irrelevance when it comes to contemporary topics. While I know I'll get plenty of PC(USA)ers taking issue with that point, the reality is this kind of behavior is built into the system. Until the system changes, we will continue to see this kind of behavior just like we did with slavery, just like we did with ordination for women and LGBT folk -- and the younger generations will observe it, take note, and continue to walk away from institutionalized religion and specifically from the PC(USA).

So, what can we do about it? Karl Augustus Menninger, author of "The Human Mind" and "Love Against Hate," once said, "Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out." We need to educate folks, educate the fear out of them. So, please share this post. Share the video from Matthew Vines and help expose the fear behind the homophobia.