SHAH ALAM 23 Okt - Pertubuhan Lepasan Mahasiswa Mesir Malaysia (Ilham) kesal apabila isteri Perdana Menteri, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansur dikatakan menjadi penaung kepada pertunjukan fesyen yang secara jelas telah menghina Islam dan Rasulullah SAW.
Presiden pertubuhan itu, Mohd Azizul Hisham Zulkifli berkata umat Islam khususnya di Malaysia telah dikejutkan dengan pertunjukkan fesyen yang telah menggunakan nama Islam tetapi langsung tidak menepati cara pemakaian Islam bahkan mempamerkan satu tindakan mencemarkan kesucian Islam.
"Adakah umat Islam belum cukup terhina dengan pelbagai siri pencemaran dan pengkhianatan barat terhadap Islam dengan terbitnya karikatur-karikatur yang menghina Rasulullah SAW?
"Adakah kita puas melihat Islam dipermainkan begitu sahaja dan banyak lagi syubhat-syubhat yang telah dimainkan oleh musuh Islam untuk menghancurkan maruah Islam?" soal beliau.
Ilham katanya lagi melahirkan kebimbangan terhadap kepimpinan negara yang tidak prihatin terhadap isu ini. Ini secara jelas adalah satu perancangan jahat musuh Islam untuk merosakkan pemikiran umat Islam di mana sahaja mereka berada.
"Kita menyeru kepada seluruh umat Islam untuk membantah dan mencela IFF ini dengan apa jua cara khususnya para ilmuan Islam yang berada dalam kerajaan Umno-Barisan Nasional atau parti pemerintah agar turut sama bangkit membantah dan tidak menjadi ‘Syaitan Bisu’.
"Kita juga melahirkan rasa kesal yang tidak terhingga terhadap penglibatan Rosmah sebagai penaung kepada IFF yang terlibat secara langsung dalam penganjuran program tersebut.
Justeru, kata Mohd Azizul, Ilham turut menyeru agar pihak yang terlibat agar segera bertaubat dan tidak lagi mengulangi kemungkaran ini.
"Setiap individu umat Islam harus berhati-hati dalam setiap tindakan kerana kemungkinan tindakan tersebut akan dikira sebagai perkara yang membatalkan syahadah tanpa disedari walaupun apa yang dilakukan itu tidak berniat untuk menghina.
"Semua pihak terutama pihak yang berkuasa haruslah insaf dan sedar akan tanggungjawab masing-masing untuk menjaga agama dan kesucian aqidah Islam. Ingatlah pesanan Baginda Nabi Muhammad SAW bahawa Islam itu berada di tempat paling tinggi dan tiada sesuatu pun yang lebih tinggi daripadanya," tambah beliau dalam kenyataan media tersebut.
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 13: Constitutional expert Dr Abdul Aziz Bari, responding to intense discussion about the country's 'First Lady' title, has pointed out that the Federal Constitution clearly named the Raja Permaisuri Agong as the country's rightful ‘First Lady’, and not the wife of the prime minister.
FIRST OR LAST ... Rosmah Mansur's 'first lady' status now a constitutional issue
Quoting Article 32 (2) of the constitution, which states that “The Consort of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong (to be called the Raja Permaisuri Agong) shall take precedence next after the Yang di-Pertuan Agong over all other persons in the Federation,” Aziz suggested that the current usage of the term to refer to Rosmah Mansor, wife of Najib Razak, especially in the ongoing First Ladies Summit in Kuala Lumpur, could be constitutionally wrong.
"It seems the issue has been ignored although many parties namely constitutional experts, lawyers and others had conveyed their opinions," said Aziz.
Aziz is not the first to raise the issue, as several commentaries and internet blogs have already been rife with discussions over who the country's First Lady was.
Elaborating further, Aziz said the approval given by the PM's Department's division in charge of protocols for Rosmah to spearhead the First Ladies Summit was "regrettable", saying that the constitution has rendered her disqualified from using the title.
"The protocol division is under the jurisdiction of the Prime Minister's Department, did it not advise Rosmah on the use of the ‘First Lady’ title?
"By right, this division should guard their responsibility and give the guidelines to the wife of Prime Minister regarding this issue," he told Suara Keadilan's online edition.
A total of fifteen first ladies, mostly from African nations, are currently attending a three-day inaugural 'First Ladies Summit' on the themse "A Child Today, a Leader Tomorrow", which ends today.
Rosmah joins other first ladies from Albania, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Jamaica, Kiribati, Laos, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Paraguay, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka and Zambia.
Meanwhile, PKR's senator Dr Syed Husin Ali, on a lighter note, could not help but comment on the summit's poor attendance.
"Only 14 countries came, some of which we have not heard of. Whose name do we want to sell? How much is spent? Who’s footing the bill?” twitted the outgoing PKR deputy president.