KOTA KINABALU: MCA Penampang is confident that it will be able to collect its target of 7,000 signatures in its on-going signature campaign to protest PAS’ proposal to implement the Hudud law.
Its divisional chief, Datuk Paul Kong Sing Chu, said that as of May 29, MCA Penampang had collected 5,835 signatures submitted to its State Women Committee.
Kong said the campaign would continue until the end of this week and the division was confident they would be able to meet the target set.
MCA Penampang’s 10-day campaign to secure signatures protesting PAS’ bid to implement Hudud law is in tandem with the party’s national level efforts initiated by MCA Wanita.
“Our aim is to obtain one million signatures from Malaysians to show support for the campaign. I urge all peace loving Malaysians who wish to see the country remain as a secular state to lend their support to the campaign without hesitation,” Kong said.
He pointed out the founding fathers of Malaysia had unanimously agreed that Malaysia must be a secular and not an Islamic state and is of the opinion that the implementation of the Hudud law as proposed by PAS would transform Malaysia into an Islamic state.
“If Hudud is implemented, it will contravene the Federal Constitution and the Malaysia Agreement 1963 when the two Borneo states of Sabah and Sarawak together with Singapore came together with Malaya to form the Federation of Malaysia,” he said.
Kong reiterated that MCA’s stand was not against Islam as the country’s official religion. However, they are strongly against the implementation of Hudud law in Malaysia as it will have far reaching consequences for Malaysia as a secular state.
“The existence of two legal systems – the Syariah and the civil laws – in a multi-racial country like Malaysia, will bring untold social and legal problems that will plunge the country into disarray,” he added.
Apart from that, as one of the top 20 trading nations of the world, Malaysia can ill afford to lose out on foreign investments which would be diverted to other more democratic countries.