is it that easy to insult islam?

(UPDATED:  this post was posted to ‘malaysia today’.   see the comments there.)

or should it be “are muslim easily insulted?”

i asked this because from what i see, it looks like lots of people (or organisation) had been accused of insulting islam lately.

the latest is of how some muslim NGOs and that extremist kulim PKR MP, zulkfli, accusing sisters in islam (SIS) and other non muslim NGOs of insulting islam on the issue of kartika’s canning.

not too long ago, we had the issue where jelutong MP, jeff ooi, was accused of insulting islam when he made some remark about the jemaah islah malaysia (JIM).  then of course we have the cases of karpal singh being accused of insulting islam and even the sultan (that is another story – accused of insulting the malay ruler),  the DAP being accused of insulting islam by the bigoted racist paper, utusan malaysia. then of course we have the case of famous blogger, RPK being jailed for insulting islam. there were many many more cases where extremist muslim jumped up and down accusing others of insulting islam.

why? did those people really insult islam?

like in jeff ooi’s case, i read somewhere, a writer said, it can be said jeff insulted JIM but JIM does not represent all of islam, so how can people said jeff insult islam?

how can a group of muslim people accused DAP of insulting islam in a banner where they had the word ‘islam’ together with a vulgar word ‘puk**ak? my oh my, wasn’t that itself an insult to islam?

so RPK was right. it was muslim themselves who insulted islam!  “it is the muslim themselves who gave islam a bad name” so he said (among other things).

likewise, my blogger mate, ktemoc was right when he said the kulim MP, who accused SIS of insulting islam, is he himself insulting islam! how so? people like him… their own faith is not strong enough! they lacked confidence in their own faith and does not have the intelligence to defend islam, so they resort to threat to silence the other side by accusing them of insulting islam.

oh dear me! i think i ought to be silent on this islam issue too… because who knows, sooner than later, there’ll be someone jumping up to accuse me of insulting islam (or using the mantra “you are not a muslim, you have no right to talk about islam.”  *sic*), so better cabut now.